Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals • Computing & Software
27 pending office actions • 18 art units • 27 examiners • 0 of 27 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 49 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute currently has 25 pending office actions, all within the Computing & Software technology area. This volume of activity is distributed across 25 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending action is being reviewed by a different individual. This high level of examiner diversity suggests a wide-reaching prosecution strategy where no single examiner has a dominant influence over the portfolio's current outcomes.
The portfolio spans 17 distinct art units, indicating that the institute's technical contributions are being evaluated across a variety of specialized groups within the patent office. CANNON, RYAN SMITH is identified as the busiest examiner, though they are only responsible for 1 pending office action. This highlights a low concentration of work per examiner, as the busiest individual handles the pending matter out of the total pending actions. With many distinct examiners and 17 distinct art units involved, the prosecution landscape for these pending matters is fragmented across the software domain. This fragmentation requires the institute to manage various art units simultaneously while engaging with CANNON, RYAN SMITH and many other examiners.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 4 (15%) |
| §101 + other | 4 (15%) |
| §103 only | 8 (30%) |
| §112 only | 2 (7%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 8 (30%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| CANNON, RYAN SMITH | 1 | 55.7% | +36.9% |
| LEE, EDMUND H | 1 | 69.6% | +17.5% |
| LYONS, MICHAEL A | 1 | 86.5% | +10.0% |
| HOANG, HAN DINH | 1 | 75.0% | +17.7% |
| TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | 1 | 78.8% | +23.6% |
| LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 1 | 73.7% | +29.9% |
| MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 1 | 47.2% | +12.7% |
| SPIES, BRADLEY R | 1 | 74.2% | +20.5% |
| NOVAK, REBECCA R | 1 | 5.9% | +6.7% |
| KIM, HEE SOO | 1 | 78.9% | -0.5% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19073471 | ENHANCING CONTRAST SENSITIVITY AND RESOLUTION IN A GRATING INTERFEROMETER BY MACHINE LEARNING | LYONS, MICHAEL A | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18035571 | NOISE2SIM - SIMILARITY-BASED SELF-LEARNING FOR IMAGE DENOISING | WANG, CLAIRE X | 100d overdue |
| 16002329 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING AUTISM | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 72d overdue |
| 18776513 | SYNTHETIC NETWORK GENERATOR FOR COVERT NETWORK ANALYTICS | KIM, HEE SOO | 37d overdue |
| 18911318 | SYSTEM FOR HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM WITH STAND-ALONE MODULAR UNITS | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 41d |
| 18860798 | SKULL FIXATION DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 54d |
| 18731228 | JOINT UNSUPERVISED AND SUPERVISED TRAINING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION | OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | 60d |
| 17612000 | DNA NANOARCHITECTURES FOR PATTERN-RECOGNIZED TARGETING OF DISEASES | WHITEMAN, BRIAN A | 79d |
| 19297071 | ASYMMETRIC LIGHT TRANSMISSION SURFACES FOR ENHANCING EFFICIENCY OF SOLAR CONCENTRATORS | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18911318 | SYSTEM FOR HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM WITH STAND-ALONE MODULAR UNITS | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 41d |
| 18860798 | SKULL FIXATION DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 54d |
| 19297071 | ASYMMETRIC LIGHT TRANSMISSION SURFACES FOR ENHANCING EFFICIENCY OF SOLAR CONCENTRATORS | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | — |
| 19252408 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCING BEADED POLYMERIC FIBERS WITH ADVANCED THERMOREGULATING PROPERTIES | LEE, EDMUND H | — |
| 19073471 | ENHANCING CONTRAST SENSITIVITY AND RESOLUTION IN A GRATING INTERFEROMETER BY MACHINE LEARNING | LYONS, MICHAEL A | — |
| 19104453 | MOTION CORRECTION WITH LOCALLY LINEAR EMBEDDING FOR ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY | HOANG, HAN DINH | — |
| 18989135 | CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE FROM ELECTROSPUN FIBERS | TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | — |
| 18901451 | RAPID AND FACILE MEMBRANE ADSORBER FABRICATION WITH ULTRA HIGH BINDING CAPACITY | SPIES, BRADLEY R | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3619 | 2 |
| 2127 | 2 |
| 1789 | 1 |
| 3763 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 2443 | 1 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| 1691 | 1 |
| 1678 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19297071 | ASYMMETRIC LIGHT TRANSMISSION SURFACES FOR ENHANCING EFFICIENCY OF SOLAR CONCENTRATORS | CANNON, RYAN SMITH | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 12, 2025 |
| 19252408 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCING BEADED POLYMERIC FIBERS WITH ADVANCED THERMOREGULATING PROPERTIES | LEE, EDMUND H | 1789 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2025 |
| 19073471 | ENHANCING CONTRAST SENSITIVITY AND RESOLUTION IN A GRATING INTERFEROMETER BY MACHINE LEARNING | LYONS, MICHAEL A | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19104453 | MOTION CORRECTION WITH LOCALLY LINEAR EMBEDDING FOR ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY | HOANG, HAN DINH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 18, 2025 |
| 18989135 | CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE FROM ELECTROSPUN FIBERS | TRUONG, QUANGLONG N | — | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18860798 | SKULL FIXATION DEVICES AND SYSTEMS | LAWSON, MATTHEW JAMES | 3619 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 54d | Pending | Oct 28, 2024 |
| 18911318 | SYSTEM FOR HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEM WITH STAND-ALONE MODULAR UNITS | MENGESHA, WEBESHET | 3763 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18901451 | RAPID AND FACILE MEMBRANE ADSORBER FABRICATION WITH ULTRA HIGH BINDING CAPACITY | SPIES, BRADLEY R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18835804 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF PREDICTING STUDENT RETENTION RATES | NOVAK, REBECCA R | 3629 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18776513 | SYNTHETIC NETWORK GENERATOR FOR COVERT NETWORK ANALYTICS | KIM, HEE SOO | 2443 | §101 | Final Rejection | 37d overdue | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18725208 | SLOW-LIGHT PHOTONIC MODULATORS FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY PHOTONIC SYSTEM | BLEVINS, JERRY M | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18731228 | JOINT UNSUPERVISED AND SUPERVISED TRAINING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION | OGUNBIYI, OLUWADAMILOL M | 2653 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | 60d | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18678902 | EXPLAINABLE TIME SERIES CLASSIFICATION USING SHAPELETS | ELCHANTI, ZEINA | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18714185 | X-RAY DISSECTOGRAPHY | AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | 5d overdue | Pending | May 29, 2024 |
| 18597050 | COMPOSITIONS INCORPORATING SULFATED POLYSACCHARIDES FOR INHIBITING SARS-COV-2 | LEWIS, PATRICK T | 1691 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18512453 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING PEPTIDE AGGREGATES | PHAM, KHAI QUYNH TIEN | 1678 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18227394 | JOINT TRAINING ALGORITHM AND HYPER-PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION IN FEDERATED LEARNING SYSTEMS | JABLON, ASHER H. | 2127 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 28, 2023 |
| 18207327 | RADIATION-DETECTING STRUCTURES AND FABRICATION METHODS THEREOF | LIN, JOHN | 2815 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2023 |
| 18035571 | NOISE2SIM - SIMILARITY-BASED SELF-LEARNING FOR IMAGE DENOISING | WANG, CLAIRE X | 1774 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 100d overdue | Pending | May 05, 2023 |
| 18140736 | SYSTEM FOR APPLYING THERAPY TO A HUMAN BODY | ALBERS, KEVIN S | 3786 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 28, 2023 |
| 18162894 | REPROGRAMMABLE FEDERATED LEARNING | LEE, WILLIAM MICHAEL | 2145 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | Feb 01, 2023 |
| 17660699 | Semi-Supervised Vertical Federated Learning | MAC, GARY | 2127 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
| 17696102 | MACHINE LEARNING TO CORRECT FOR NONPHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING IN HIGH-FREQUENCY, IN VIVO FLUOROMETER DATA | WHALEY, PABLO S | 3619 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 16, 2022 |
| 17612000 | DNA NANOARCHITECTURES FOR PATTERN-RECOGNIZED TARGETING OF DISEASES | WHITEMAN, BRIAN A | 1636 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Nov 17, 2021 |
| 16926407 | EFFICIENT SEARCH OF ROBUST ACCURATE NEURAL NETWORKS | GODO, MORIAM MOSUNMOLA | 2148 | §112 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Jul 10, 2020 |
| 16394111 | SECOND ORDER NEURON FOR MACHINE LEARNING | GERMICK, JOHNATHAN R | 2122 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2019 |
| 16002329 | METHOD FOR PREDICTING AUTISM | WOITACH, JOSEPH T | 1687 | §101 | Final Rejection | 72d overdue | Pending | Jun 07, 2018 |
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