Technology areas: Computing & Software • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
62 pending office actions • 41 art units • 60 examiners • 1 of 62 (2%) have an AI response strategy ready • 152 patents granted in the last 365 days
Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. has 65 pending office actions in Computing & Software. The portfolio spans 61 examiners and 41 art units, showing broad distribution across examination assignments. The close relationship between pending matters and examiners indicates that examiner-specific analysis will be important across the docket.
SOLTANZADEH, AMIR is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel should coordinate software claim terminology and portfolio objectives while adapting prosecution positions to the different art units and examiners. The limited concentration at the busiest examiner supports using a distributed management approach rather than a single-examiner playbook.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 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. 15 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 | 7 (11%) |
| §101 + other | 22 (35%) |
| §103 only | 17 (27%) |
| §102 only | 2 (3%) |
| §112 only | 1 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 12 (19%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAN, VI N | 2 | 46.0% | +34.6% |
| WORKU, KIDEST | 2 | 84.9% | +2.8% |
| MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 1 | 85.4% | +14.3% |
| ESONU, VICTOR CHIGOZIRIM | 1 | 14.3% | +0.0% |
| SINGH, KAVEL | 1 | 83.7% | +14.0% |
| MCLEAN, IAN SCOTT | 1 | 43.5% | +31.1% |
| JOSEPH, TONYA S | 1 | 24.2% | +19.3% |
| ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | 1 | 77.2% | +10.6% |
| SOLTANZADEH, AMIR | 1 | 80.9% | +16.6% |
| ERDMAN, CHAD G | 1 | 80.2% | +17.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18460295 | EDGE DEVICE SUPPORT OF COMPUTATION OF CONTEXTUALIZED HEALTH STATISTICS IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENT | WORKU, KIDEST | 24d overdue |
| 19235247 | INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM TOPOLOGY WITH POINT TO POINT REPRESENTATION PATHS | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | — |
| 19044100 | MOVER SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
| 18952567 | INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR | SOLTANZADEH, AMIR | — |
| 18937870 | ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER (OEM) DATA APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) TO MODEL REPOSITORY | ERDMAN, CHAD G | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17661408 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PREDICTIONS WITH SUPERVISED AND UNSUPERVISED DATA IN INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS | HAEFNER, KAITLYN RENEE | 134d overdue |
| 18754729 | COMPETITIVE PRODUCT MATCHING LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 8d overdue |
| 18060077 | SMART OBJECT CONTROLLER ALLOCATION IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENT | SAXENA, AKASH | 21d |
| 18787157 | MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING AND WORK ORDER GENERATION | BOND, REED MADISON | 28d |
| 17568912 | WAVEFORM RECONSTRUCTION IN A TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSOR | NICKERSON, SAMANTHA K | 33d |
| 18661811 | SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING WITH GENERATIVE AI CAPABILITIES | JARRETT, SCOTT L | 41d |
| 18755323 | INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE PLANNING AND TRACKING | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 63d |
| 18614956 | INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT GENERATIVE AI PROMPT WORKFLOW | NGUYEN, MONGBAO | 69d |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19235247 | INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM TOPOLOGY WITH POINT TO POINT REPRESENTATION PATHS | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | — |
| 19044100 | MOVER SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SINGH, KAVEL | — |
| 19020530 | GENERATIVE AI AUTOMATION VISUALIZATION REVERSE PROMPT ENGINEERING | MCLEAN, IAN SCOTT | — |
| 19020116 | GENERATIVE AI INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION VISUALIZATION RUNTIME | JOSEPH, TONYA S | — |
| 19009791 | COLLABORATION TOOLS | ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | — |
| 18952567 | INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR | SOLTANZADEH, AMIR | — |
| 18937870 | ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER (OEM) DATA APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) TO MODEL REPOSITORY | ERDMAN, CHAD G | — |
| 18902078 | INDUSTRIAL SIMULATION DATA WITHIN DIGITAL TWIN VISUALIZATIONS | TRAN, VI N | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2119 | 6 |
| 2117 | 4 |
| 3629 | 3 |
| 2857 | 3 |
| 2115 | 3 |
| 2116 | 2 |
| 2192 | 2 |
| 2118 | 2 |
| 3697 | 2 |
| 3624 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19235247 | INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM TOPOLOGY WITH POINT TO POINT REPRESENTATION PATHS | MANIWANG, JOSEPH R | 2453 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19175957 | CONTROLFLASH PLUS HARDWARE SERIALIZATION AND REGISTRATION | ESONU, VICTOR CHIGOZIRIM | 3629 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19044100 | MOVER SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS | SINGH, KAVEL | 3651 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19020530 | GENERATIVE AI AUTOMATION VISUALIZATION REVERSE PROMPT ENGINEERING | MCLEAN, IAN SCOTT | 2654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19020116 | GENERATIVE AI INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION VISUALIZATION RUNTIME | JOSEPH, TONYA S | 3628 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19009791 | COLLABORATION TOOLS | ORTIZ RODRIGUEZ, CARLOS R | 2119 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18952567 | INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR | SOLTANZADEH, AMIR | 2191 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2024 |
| 18937870 | ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER (OEM) DATA APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) TO MODEL REPOSITORY | ERDMAN, CHAD G | 2116 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18913809 | AUTOMATION OBJECTS FOR INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENTS | ST LEGER, GEOFFREY R | 2192 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18902078 | INDUSTRIAL SIMULATION DATA WITHIN DIGITAL TWIN VISUALIZATIONS | TRAN, VI N | 2117 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18899922 | UNPOWERED AUTOMATION DEVICE TROUBLESHOOTING USING NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION | OGG, DAVID EARL | 2119 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18898812 | Safety Tag Transfer During Safety Controller Qualification | TRAN, VI N | 2117 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18898823 | System and Method for Modifying an Application During Execution on a Safety Controller | MALIK, ZEERICK ASIM | 2193 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18897845 | INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING PROCESS ISSUES | PATEL, CHANDNI | 2118 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2024 |
| 18896183 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPERATIONAL MONITORING OF INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICE | YU, JAE UN | 2138 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 25, 2024 |
| 18824647 | GENERATIVE AI FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION VISUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT | SHAHABI, ARI ARASTOO | 3697 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 04, 2024 |
| 18811443 | CONTEXTUAL BASED ADJUSTABLE INDUSTRIAL OPERATION WORK ORDER SCHEDULING | KONERU, SUJAY | 3624 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 21, 2024 |
| 18807442 | INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE PLANNING AND TRACKING WITH ROBOTS | MAGUIRE, LINDSAY M | 2857 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18787157 | MAINTENANCE SCHEDULING AND WORK ORDER GENERATION | BOND, REED MADISON | 3624 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 28d | Pending | Jul 29, 2024 |
| 18755323 | INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE PLANNING AND TRACKING | SANTIAGO-MERCED, FRANCIS Z | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18754729 | COMPETITIVE PRODUCT MATCHING LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | SULLIVAN, THOMAS J | 3689 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Jun 26, 2024 |
| 18679113 | Industrial Batch Processing Dynamic User Interface | RAMIREZ, ELLIS B | 3658 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18679130 | Industrial Batch Processing Operation Control for Use with Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models | FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG | 2117 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18670166 | INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS BASED ON PART AVAILABILITY | SHECHTMAN, SEAN P | 2896 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 21, 2024 |
| 18666226 | MULTI-TENANT MANUFACTURING CLOUD SYSTEM | WORKU, KIDEST | 2119 | §101§103DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18661811 | SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING WITH GENERATIVE AI CAPABILITIES | JARRETT, SCOTT L | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | May 13, 2024 |
| 18652571 | AUTOMATED ANOMALY DETECTION AND RESOLUTION IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM | MERCADO VARGAS, ARIEL | 4100 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2024 |
| 18645628 | GENERATIVE AI CUSTOMER SUPPORT ACCELERATOR | HICKS, AUSTIN JAMES | 2142 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18646534 | INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICE INTERFACE LEVERAGING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | DISTEFANO, GREGORY A | 2174 | §103 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Apr 25, 2024 |
| 18635300 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND MAINTAINING INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICE TWINS | KLICOS, NICHOLAS GEORGE | 2118 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18635319 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING DATA TRANSMISSION FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION DEVICE TWINS | YANCHUS III, PAUL B | 2115 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2024 |
| 18622082 | GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CODE BLOCK SELECTOR AND CODEBASE UPDATING SYSTEM | AGRAWAL, SHISHIR | 2115 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18614956 | INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT GENERATIVE AI PROMPT WORKFLOW | NGUYEN, MONGBAO | 2192 | §101§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | 69d | Pending | Mar 25, 2024 |
| 18610444 | INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT IN-LINE GENERATIVE AI CODE EDITOR | GOORAY, MARK A | 2199 | §103 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18607750 | INTEGRATED DESIGN ENVIRONMENT GENERATIVE AI INDUSTRIAL SMART CODE CREATION | DARWISH, AMIR ELSAYED | 2199 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18596193 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS | LE, JOHN H | 2857 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 05, 2024 |
| 18590614 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING AN INDUSTRIAL DIGITAL TWIN AND CONTROLLING AN INDUSTRIAL DEVICE USING AN EDGE DEVICE | VOGEL, JAY L. | 2478 | §103 | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18590677 | PRESCRIPTIVE MAINTENANCE WORK ORDER GENERATION | NGUYEN, TAN D | 3629 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2024 |
| 18588518 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ETHERNET NETWORK DEVICE EMULATOR | CADORNA, CHRISTOPHER PALACA | 2444 | §103 | Final Rejection | 8d overdue | Pending | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18538811 | MODELING WIRING ARRANGEMENTS IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENT | FABER, DAVID | 2172 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18500448 | PREDICTIVE HUMAN RESPONSE TERMINAL IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM | RIEGLER, PATRICK F | 2171 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 02, 2023 |
| 18477045 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MANUFACTURING BASED ON SUSTAINABILITY FACTOR DATA | SANDERS, JOSHUA T | 2119 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 18460295 | EDGE DEVICE SUPPORT OF COMPUTATION OF CONTEXTUALIZED HEALTH STATISTICS IN AN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENT | WORKU, KIDEST | 2119 | §103 | Final Rejection | 24d overdue | Pending | Sep 01, 2023 |
| 18457478 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BATCH SYNCHRONIZATION IN INDUSTRIAL BATCH ANALYTICS | POUDEL, SANTOSH RAJ | 2115 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 29, 2023 |
| 18363186 | INDUSTRIAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CONFIGURATION PARSING | TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI | 2189 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2023 |
| 18357311 | INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SOFTWARE SUBSCRIPTION TOKENING | RAK, TAYLOR SIMON DUANE | 3697 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2023 |
| 18216938 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING VARIABLE CYCLE TIMES FOR OVERALL EQUIPMENT EFFECTIVENESS ANALYTICS FOR INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS | LINDSAY, BERNARD G | 2119 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2023 |
| 18343481 | PROMPT ENGINEERING FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ASSISTED INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM DESIGN | NG, JONATHAN K | 3619 | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2023 |
| 18322311 | SPHERICAL BIT AND FASTENER DESIGN | SCRUGGS, ROBERT J | 3723 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 83d | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
| 18322268 | TOKENIZED INDUSTRIAL DATA FUNCTION SERVICE THAT INCLUDES SPECIFIED DATA FUNCTION SERVICE | HTAY, LIN LIN M | 2153 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 23, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialRockwell Automation Technologies Inc. has 62 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 41 art units and 60 examiners.
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