Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

SambaNova Systems Inc.

Technology area: Computing & Software

16 pending office actions • 5 art units • 15 examiners • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 55 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

16
Total Pending OAs
14
Non-Final OAs
2
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

0
Overdue
0
Due this week
0
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
2
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

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. 4 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (2)

Case Difficulty Mix

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.

9
Hard (56%)
2
Medium (12%)
5
Easy (31%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (12%)
§101 + other5 (31%)
§103 only2 (12%)
§112 only2 (12%)
Double-patenting only3 (19%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (12%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
5
Information Tech
31% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
1
Semiconductors
6% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
10
Business / Other
62% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

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.

160 h
Manual time on pending OAs
32 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
56 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.4 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZAMAN, FAISAL M 2 67.2% +13.5%
HASSAN, AURANGZEB 1 80.3% +17.0%
HUSON, ZACHARY K 1 89.3% +6.5%
SNYDER, STEVEN G 1 80.4% -8.5%
CHU, GABRIEL L 1 78.8% -2.2%
DOMAN, SHAWN 1 64.9% +26.6%
METZGER, MICHAEL J 1 90.7% +7.6%
TSENG, CHENG YUAN 1 84.1% +15.5%
CHEN, SIBIN 1 86.6% +5.2%
LEE, ADAM 1 84.1% +61.0%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18624056 Flip-Flop With Trigger Edge Determined By Latch Order CHEN, SIBIN 68d
19232544 Estimating a Cost of Placing and Routing a Logical Edge onto a Reconfigurable Processor HASSAN, AURANGZEB —
19184611 MULTIPLE CONTEXTS FOR A COMPUTE UNIT IN A RECONFIGURABLE DATA PROCESSOR HUSON, ZACHARY K —
19062301 PEER-TO-PEER ROUTE THROUGH IN A RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING SYSTEM SNYDER, STEVEN G —

Hard Cases (9)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18128104 SEARCHING NEURAL NETWORK PIPELINES BASED ON NAMED MATRIX DIMENSIONS SMITH, CHENECA 49d
18367764 Estimating Resource Costs for Computing Tasks for a Reconfigurable Dataflow Computing System KABIR, MOHAMMAD H 63d
19081647 COMPILER THAT GENERATES CONFIGURATION INFORMATION FOR CONFIGURING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TO MITIGATE INDUCTIVE-INDUCED VOLTAGE DROOP ZAMAN, FAISAL M —
19043391 HARDWARE FAULT DETECTION AND RECOVERY IN A RECONFIGURABLE DATAFLOW ARCHITECTURE CHU, GABRIEL L —
19020313 REUSING SELECT COMPUTED VALUES DURING LAYER NORMALIZATION FOR LARGE MODELS METZGER, MICHAEL J —
18974291 COMPUTATIONAL NODES FUSION IN A RECONFIGURABLE DATA PROCESSOR TSENG, CHENG YUAN —
18614639 DATA TRANSFER IN DATAFLOW COMPUTING SYSTEMS USING AN INTELLIGENT DYNAMIC TRANSFER ENGINE LEE, ADAM —
18105695 EXPLOITING SHARED DIMENSIONS IN MATRIX COMPUTATIONS LE, PHAT NGOC —

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19232544 Estimating a Cost of Placing and Routing a Logical Edge onto a Reconfigurable Processor HASSAN, AURANGZEB —
19097394 Sorting and Placing Nodes of an Operation Unit Graph onto a Reconfigurable Processor ZAMAN, FAISAL M —
19081647 COMPILER THAT GENERATES CONFIGURATION INFORMATION FOR CONFIGURING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TO MITIGATE INDUCTIVE-INDUCED VOLTAGE DROOP ZAMAN, FAISAL M —
19032192 RECONFIGURABLE DATAFLOW COMPUTING SYSTEMS WITH EFFICIENT SOFTMAX FUNCTIONS DOMAN, SHAWN —
18974291 COMPUTATIONAL NODES FUSION IN A RECONFIGURABLE DATA PROCESSOR TSENG, CHENG YUAN —
18614639 DATA TRANSFER IN DATAFLOW COMPUTING SYSTEMS USING AN INTELLIGENT DYNAMIC TRANSFER ENGINE LEE, ADAM —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2192 2
2114 1
2183 1
2896 1
2151 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19232544 Estimating a Cost of Placing and Routing a Logical Edge onto a Reconfigurable Processor HASSAN, AURANGZEB — §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 09, 2025
19184611 MULTIPLE CONTEXTS FOR A COMPUTE UNIT IN A RECONFIGURABLE DATA PROCESSOR HUSON, ZACHARY K — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 21, 2025
19097394 Sorting and Placing Nodes of an Operation Unit Graph onto a Reconfigurable Processor ZAMAN, FAISAL M — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 01, 2025
19081647 COMPILER THAT GENERATES CONFIGURATION INFORMATION FOR CONFIGURING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TO MITIGATE INDUCTIVE-INDUCED VOLTAGE DROOP ZAMAN, FAISAL M — §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 17, 2025
19062301 PEER-TO-PEER ROUTE THROUGH IN A RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING SYSTEM SNYDER, STEVEN G — DP Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 25, 2025
19043391 HARDWARE FAULT DETECTION AND RECOVERY IN A RECONFIGURABLE DATAFLOW ARCHITECTURE CHU, GABRIEL L 2114 §101§102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 31, 2025
19032192 RECONFIGURABLE DATAFLOW COMPUTING SYSTEMS WITH EFFICIENT SOFTMAX FUNCTIONS DOMAN, SHAWN 2183 §112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 20, 2025
19020313 REUSING SELECT COMPUTED VALUES DURING LAYER NORMALIZATION FOR LARGE MODELS METZGER, MICHAEL J — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 14, 2025
18974291 COMPUTATIONAL NODES FUSION IN A RECONFIGURABLE DATA PROCESSOR TSENG, CHENG YUAN — §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 09, 2024
18624056 Flip-Flop With Trigger Edge Determined By Latch Order CHEN, SIBIN 2896 §112 Non-Final OA 68d Pending Apr 01, 2024
18614639 DATA TRANSFER IN DATAFLOW COMPUTING SYSTEMS USING AN INTELLIGENT DYNAMIC TRANSFER ENGINE LEE, ADAM — §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 23, 2024
18367764 Estimating Resource Costs for Computing Tasks for a Reconfigurable Dataflow Computing System KABIR, MOHAMMAD H 2192 §101§103 Final Rejection 63d Pending Sep 13, 2023
18128104 SEARCHING NEURAL NETWORK PIPELINES BASED ON NAMED MATRIX DIMENSIONS SMITH, CHENECA 2192 §101 Non-Final OA 49d Pending Mar 29, 2023
18105695 EXPLOITING SHARED DIMENSIONS IN MATRIX COMPUTATIONS LE, PHAT NGOC — §101§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 03, 2023
18095128 DATAFLOW ARCHITECTURE PROCESSOR STATICALLY RECONFIGURABLE TO PERFORM N-DIMENSIONAL AFFINE TRANSFORMATION IN A TILED MANNER HUTCHINSON, FRANK — §101§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 10, 2023
17824830 Matrix Multiplication on Coarse-grained Computing Grids RIVERA, MARIA DE JESUS 2151 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending May 25, 2022

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