Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 2 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 1 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rivanna Medical Inc. has 4 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 4 examiners across 2 art units, indicating distinct examiner assignments but some repetition in technical examination groups.
BRUCE, FAROUK A is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can coordinate positions at the art-unit level while preparing separate responses for each examiner. Shared medical-device terminology may support consistency across the two examination settings.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRUCE, FAROUK A | 1 | 49.1% | +38.3% |
| LY, TOMMY TAI | 1 | 80.0% | +23.6% |
| CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 1 | 71.6% | +48.2% |
| BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 1 | 47.1% | +19.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822357 | APPARATUS FOR VOLUMETRIC ULTRASOUND SCANNING | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 51d overdue |
| 18913791 | ULTRASONIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL INSTRUMENT LOCALIZATION AND POSITIONING GUIDANCE | LY, TOMMY TAI | 31d overdue |
| 18608412 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING MULTI-ARRAY PROBE APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | — |
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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18822357 | APPARATUS FOR VOLUMETRIC ULTRASOUND SCANNING | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 51d overdue |
| 18913791 | ULTRASONIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL INSTRUMENT LOCALIZATION AND POSITIONING GUIDANCE | LY, TOMMY TAI | 31d overdue |
| 19239838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ULTRASOUND SPINE SHADOW FEATURE DETECTION AND IMAGING THEREOF | BRUCE, FAROUK A | — |
| 18608412 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING MULTI-ARRAY PROBE APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 3 |
| 3798 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19239838 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ULTRASOUND SPINE SHADOW FEATURE DETECTION AND IMAGING THEREOF | BRUCE, FAROUK A | 3797 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 16, 2025 |
| 18913791 | ULTRASONIC SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL INSTRUMENT LOCALIZATION AND POSITIONING GUIDANCE | LY, TOMMY TAI | 3797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 31d overdue | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18822357 | APPARATUS FOR VOLUMETRIC ULTRASOUND SCANNING | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 3797 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Sep 02, 2024 |
| 18608412 | ULTRASOUND IMAGING MULTI-ARRAY PROBE APPARATUS AND SYSTEM | BEGEMAN, ANDREW W | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialRivanna Medical Inc. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 2 art units and 4 examiners.
Farouk A Bruce has the most, with 1 of Rivanna Medical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
