Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc.

12 pending office actions • 11 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 26 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

12
Total Pending OAs
8
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

5
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
2
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (5)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (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.

3
Hard (25%)
9
Medium (75%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (25%)
§103 only8 (67%)
§102 only1 (8%)

Industry Mix

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

1
Life Sciences
8% of docket
7
Information Tech
58% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
4
Semiconductors
33% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

120 h
Manual time on pending OAs
24 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
42 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.1 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
GAMINO, CARLOS J 1 35.3% +46.0%
COMBER, KEVIN J 1 82.6% +11.6%
WEI, ZENGPU 1 71.0% +53.7%
SMITH, CHENECA 1 69.9% +46.8%
DALBO, MICHAEL J 1 66.4% +18.8%
AHMED, ISTIAQUE 1 68.7% +18.3%
NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C 1 76.3% +10.7%
LI, GUANG W 1 77.8% +24.4%
PEREZ BERMUDEZ, YARITZA H 1 74.1% +18.7%
NARRAMORE, BLAKE I 1 78.7% +23.6%

Quick Wins (1)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18745210 Adaptive Commutation Hybrid Circuit Breaker COMBER, KEVIN J 9d

Hard Cases (3)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17809666 DETECTION OF INCIPIENT FAILURES IN INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS PEREZ BERMUDEZ, YARITZA H 91d overdue
18394225 FIRMWARE VALIDATION FOR POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM USING SIMULATED POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM VALUES WEI, ZENGPU 60d overdue
18483032 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM TOPOLOGY-BASED INTERLOCKING AHMED, ISTIAQUE 22d

Interview Candidates (10)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18329010 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CONFIGURATION USING SUBSTATION CONFIGURATION LANGUAGE FILE LI, GUANG W 97d overdue
17809666 DETECTION OF INCIPIENT FAILURES IN INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS PEREZ BERMUDEZ, YARITZA H 91d overdue
18394225 FIRMWARE VALIDATION FOR POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM USING SIMULATED POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM VALUES WEI, ZENGPU 60d overdue
17659029 TOKEN-BASED ACCESS CONTROL WITH AUTHENTICATION DATA NARRAMORE, BLAKE I 44d overdue
18490145 ADAPTIVE PROTECTIVE RELAY EVENT REPORTS DALBO, MICHAEL J 42d overdue
18745210 Adaptive Commutation Hybrid Circuit Breaker COMBER, KEVIN J 9d
18329005 COMMUNICATION DEVICE OPERABLE UNDER MULTIPLE CONTROL PLANES NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C 20d
18483032 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM TOPOLOGY-BASED INTERLOCKING AHMED, ISTIAQUE 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2857 2
1735 1
2838 1
2197 1
2192 1
2116 1
2459 1
2478 1
2438 1
2859 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18756631 WAVE HEIGHT CONTROL FOR WAVE SOLDERING GAMINO, CARLOS J 1735 §103 Final Rejection 53d Pending Jun 27, 2024
18745210 Adaptive Commutation Hybrid Circuit Breaker COMBER, KEVIN J 2838 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jun 17, 2024
18394225 FIRMWARE VALIDATION FOR POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM USING SIMULATED POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM VALUES WEI, ZENGPU 2197 §101 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2023
18394253 SETTINGS OR FIRMWARE VALIDATION FOR POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM USING POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM VALUES BEFORE AND AFTER SETTINGS OR FIRMWARE CHANGE SMITH, CHENECA 2192 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Dec 22, 2023
18490145 ADAPTIVE PROTECTIVE RELAY EVENT REPORTS DALBO, MICHAEL J 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2023
18483032 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM TOPOLOGY-BASED INTERLOCKING AHMED, ISTIAQUE 2116 §101 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Oct 09, 2023
18329005 COMMUNICATION DEVICE OPERABLE UNDER MULTIPLE CONTROL PLANES NEURAUTER JR, GEORGE C 2459 §102 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Jun 05, 2023
18329010 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM CONFIGURATION USING SUBSTATION CONFIGURATION LANGUAGE FILE LI, GUANG W 2478 §103 Non-Final OA 97d overdue Pending Jun 05, 2023
17809666 DETECTION OF INCIPIENT FAILURES IN INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS PEREZ BERMUDEZ, YARITZA H 2857 §101 Final Rejection 91d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2022
17659029 TOKEN-BASED ACCESS CONTROL WITH AUTHENTICATION DATA NARRAMORE, BLAKE I 2438 §103 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Apr 13, 2022
17711216 CAPACITOR DISCHARGE TOOL MCFARLAND, DANIEL PATRICK 2859 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Apr 01, 2022
17378286 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING ELECTRIC POWER DELIVERY SYSTEM EVENT LOCATIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING HASTY, NICHOLAS 2141 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 16, 2021

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