Technology area: Communications
17 pending office actions • 8 art units • 16 examiners • 0 of 17 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 41 patents granted in the last 365 days
Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc. has 18 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 16 examiners across 8 art units, showing a broad prosecution footprint with some examiner overlap and a more compact art-unit structure.
PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending office actions. That concentration identifies a limited group of matters suitable for coordinated review, but the wider examiner and art-unit distribution calls for separate analysis of claim treatment and amendment options.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 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. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 9 (53%) |
| §102 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (12%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (29%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G | 2 | 83.6% | +3.2% |
| MOONEY, JAMES K | 1 | 75.5% | +21.7% |
| KIM, PAUL | 1 | 73.0% | +19.9% |
| RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | 1 | 65.4% | +40.0% |
| SUBRAMANI, NANDINI | 1 | 64.6% | +47.5% |
| GAUTHIER, GERALD | 1 | 91.1% | +6.6% |
| YUN, EUGENE | 1 | 85.5% | +4.4% |
| AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A | 1 | 80.5% | +18.2% |
| KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 1 | 81.3% | +7.3% |
| LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI | 1 | 83.8% | +50.7% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19021697 | ARRAY MICROPHONE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING THE SAME | GAUTHIER, GERALD | — |
| 18959882 | MICROPHONE TRACKING BASED AUDIO PROCESSING | PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G | — |
| 18949033 | SCALABLE MULTIUSER AUDIO SYSTEM AND METHOD | YUN, EUGENE | — |
| 18910304 | Determination and Compensation of Radio Frequency Signal Attenuation | AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A | — |
| 18817608 | FRONT-END AUDIO PROCESSING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION | LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI | — |
| 18613981 | WIRELESS AUDIO SYSTEM | PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18806864 | NEURAL ACOUSTIC MODELING FOR AN AUDIO ENVIRONMENT | WONG, LINDA | 28d |
| 18654898 | ADAPTIVE SPEECH REGENERATION | ROBERTS, SHAUN A | 33d |
| 19084389 | NETWORKED AUTOMIXER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MOONEY, JAMES K | — |
| 19051466 | INTERFERENCE TUBE FOR A MICROPHONE | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | — |
| 18830127 | PARYLENE ELECTRET CONDENSER MICROPHONE BACKPLATE | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19084389 | NETWORKED AUTOMIXER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MOONEY, JAMES K | — |
| 19054149 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL OF AN AUDIO SIGNAL | KIM, PAUL | — |
| 19051466 | INTERFERENCE TUBE FOR A MICROPHONE | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | — |
| 19047204 | AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION USING MULTI-MODAL AUDIO SOURCE CHANNALIZATION SYSTEM | SUBRAMANI, NANDINI | — |
| 18910304 | Determination and Compensation of Radio Frequency Signal Attenuation | AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A | — |
| 18817608 | FRONT-END AUDIO PROCESSING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION | LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2695 | 3 |
| 2656 | 3 |
| 2655 | 3 |
| 2694 | 2 |
| 2692 | 2 |
| 2691 | 2 |
| 2648 | 1 |
| 2693 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19084389 | NETWORKED AUTOMIXER SYSTEMS AND METHODS | MOONEY, JAMES K | 2695 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19054149 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL OF AN AUDIO SIGNAL | KIM, PAUL | 2695 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19051466 | INTERFERENCE TUBE FOR A MICROPHONE | RINEHART, SEAN MICHAEL | 2694 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19047204 | AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION USING MULTI-MODAL AUDIO SOURCE CHANNALIZATION SYSTEM | SUBRAMANI, NANDINI | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 06, 2025 |
| 19021697 | ARRAY MICROPHONE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING THE SAME | GAUTHIER, GERALD | 2692 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 18959882 | MICROPHONE TRACKING BASED AUDIO PROCESSING | PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18949033 | SCALABLE MULTIUSER AUDIO SYSTEM AND METHOD | YUN, EUGENE | 2648 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18910304 | Determination and Compensation of Radio Frequency Signal Attenuation | AKINYEMI, AJIBOLA A | 2695 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2024 |
| 18830127 | PARYLENE ELECTRET CONDENSER MICROPHONE BACKPLATE | KRZYSTAN, ALEXANDER J | 2694 | §102§103Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2024 |
| 18817608 | FRONT-END AUDIO PROCESSING FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION | LAM, PHILIP HUNG FAI | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2024 |
| 18806864 | NEURAL ACOUSTIC MODELING FOR AN AUDIO ENVIRONMENT | WONG, LINDA | 2655 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Aug 16, 2024 |
| 18763953 | CONFERENCING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADJUSTING CAMERA TRACKING BASED ON MICROPHONE COVERAGE | ZENATI, AMAL S | 2693 | §103 | Final Rejection | 63d | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18763719 | AUDIO ENHANCEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF AN IMMERSIVE AUDIO EXPERIENCE | COLUCCI, MICHAEL C | 2655 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 03, 2024 |
| 18654624 | DETECTION AND ATTENUATION OF VOCAL ARTIFACTS IN AUDIO | TRACY JR., EDWARD | 2656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 35d | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18654898 | ADAPTIVE SPEECH REGENERATION | ROBERTS, SHAUN A | 2655 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18613981 | WIRELESS AUDIO SYSTEM | PATEL, YOGESHKUMAR G | 2691 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18140294 | Multi-Channel Microphone | GANMAVO, KUASSI A | 2692 | §103 | Final Rejection | 41d | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialShure Acquisition Holdings Inc. has 17 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 8 art units and 16 examiners.
Yogeshkumar G Patel has the most, with 2 of Shure Acquisition Holdings Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
