Technology areas: Communications • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
248 pending office actions • 82 art units • 205 examiners • 0 of 248 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 539 patents granted in the last 365 days
Siemens Healthineers AG has 256 pending office actions in Communications. The matters involve 212 distinct examiners across 80 distinct art units, indicating broad examination participation and repeated activity within the unit structure. The size and distribution of the docket support formal segmentation by art unit and technology.
PATEL, RISHI R is the busiest listed examiner, with 7 pending matters. That examiner has the largest listed recurring assignment, but the wider portfolio remains spread across many other examiners. Portfolio counsel should coordinate recurring issues without treating one examiner’s approach as representative of the full docket.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 55 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. 55 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 | 6 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 61 (25%) |
| §103 only | 81 (33%) |
| §102 only | 15 (6%) |
| §112 only | 5 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 74 (30%) |
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, RISHI R | 8 | 82.8% | +2.6% |
| FAYE, MAMADOU | 5 | 78.5% | +6.5% |
| SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 4 | 30.3% | +29.7% |
| EDUN, DEAN NAWAAB | 3 | 50.0% | +63.3% |
| WENDEROTH, FREDERICK | 3 | 92.9% | -2.5% |
| GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 3 | 78.2% | +6.9% |
| BRYANT, MICHAEL CASEY | 3 | 78.5% | +17.1% |
| OBEID, MAMON A | 2 | 46.1% | +33.1% |
| COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 2 | 47.5% | +25.7% |
| ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 2 | 48.4% | +55.0% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19195871 | Magnetic Resonance Apparatus with a Laser Marking Unit | PATEL, RISHI R | — |
| 19073247 | Computer-Implemented Method for Supporting and/or Assisting a User by Means of an Assistance System When Executing a Measurement Program During Magnetic Resonance Data Acquisition | WENDEROTH, FREDERICK | — |
| 19060689 | DETERMINING A CONFIGURATION FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | WENDEROTH, FREDERICK | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18450585 | METHOD AND FACILITY FOR PROVIDING A SET OF CONTROL COMMANDS FOR CONTROLLING A MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM | BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B | 91d overdue |
| 17837174 | DIFFERENTIAL VOLTAGE MEASURING SYSTEM FOR MEASURING THE BREATHING ACTIVITY OF A PATIENT | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 45d overdue |
| 18240498 | Communication Method and Communication Apparatus for MRI Device | FERRELL, CARTER W | 22d overdue |
| 18576256 | SITE-SPECIFIC ADAPTATION OF AUTOMATED DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS SYSTEMS | MARIAM, DANIEL G | 15d overdue |
| 18761381 | MEDICAL INTERVENTION ARRANGEMENT AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING POSITION INFORMATION OF A MEDICAL INSTRUMENT | BOCK, ABIGAIL MARIE | 11d overdue |
| 18645575 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A VOLUME OF CALCIUM IN AN AORTA | BROUGHTON, KATHLEEN M | 11d overdue |
| 18730519 | TILTABLE DISPLAY SCREEN ASSEMBLIES, DIAGNOSTIC ANALYZERS WITH TILTABLE DISPLAY SCREEN ASSEMBLY, AND METHODS | THAKER, NIDHI VIVEK | 3d overdue |
| 17595478 | REAGENTS FOR SANDWICH IMMUNOASSAYS USING PARTICLE ENHANCED AGGLUTINATION DETECTION AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION AND USE THEREOF | COUNTS, GARY W | 3d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19070517 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT FOR USE IN A MAGNETIC RESONANCE TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING | EDUN, DEAN NAWAAB | 44d overdue |
| 18910160 | Method and Device for Planning an MR Examination on an MRT System | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 2d overdue |
| 18387794 | USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS TO TEST THE VALIDITY OF A USER ACTION IN TREATMENT PLANNING | SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 16d |
| 18888482 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING A TREATMENT RESPONSE PREDICTION BASED ON A WHOLE SLIDE IMAGE | SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 34d |
| 18991688 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING IMAGE DATA USING PILOT TONE | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 40d |
| 19311383 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ORGAN POSITIONING ASSESSMENT | OBEID, MAMON A | — |
| 19285808 | METHOD AND MEDICAL SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING A REFERENCE X-RAY IMAGE | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | — |
| 19227588 | METHOD FOR CHECKING A MAGNETIC RESONANCE LIMIT VALUE BASED ON A POSITION OF A HEAD OF A PATIENT | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2884 | 30 |
| 3798 | 20 |
| 3797 | 15 |
| 3684 | 9 |
| 3791 | 8 |
| 2858 | 7 |
| 2672 | 7 |
| 2852 | 6 |
| 3687 | 5 |
| 3681 | 5 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19381190 | GUIDANCE SUPPORT FOR GUIDING A MEDICAL DEVICE | JASANI, ASHISH SHIRISH | 3798 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2025 |
| 19321362 | Body Part Cushion | FRITH, SEAN A | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 2025 |
| 19311383 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ORGAN POSITIONING ASSESSMENT | OBEID, MAMON A | 3687 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 27, 2025 |
| 19285808 | METHOD AND MEDICAL SYSTEM FOR ADJUSTING A REFERENCE X-RAY IMAGE | COOK, CHRISTOPHER L | 3797 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2025 |
| 19231548 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT WITH POSITIONING X-RAY MARKERS, A COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING POSITIONING INFORMATION, AND AN X-RAY DEVICE | VARGAS MONTALVO, DIXOMARA | 3798 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 08, 2025 |
| 19230341 | FIELD EFFECT EMITTER MICROSTRUCTURE HAVING A REDUCED GATE CURRENT | FAYE, MAMADOU | 2884 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 06, 2025 |
| 19227588 | METHOD FOR CHECKING A MAGNETIC RESONANCE LIMIT VALUE BASED ON A POSITION OF A HEAD OF A PATIENT | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 3798 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19215451 | Scanning Procedure Determination | NEWTON, CHAD A | 3681 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19209784 | SYSTEM FOR MOVING A MEDICAL OBJECT, METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CONTROL SPECIFICATION, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | EDUN, DEAN NAWAAB | 3797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 15, 2025 |
| 19207746 | Medical Imaging Apparatus with a Patient Support Apparatus | ROY, BAISAKHI | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19195871 | Magnetic Resonance Apparatus with a Laser Marking Unit | PATEL, RISHI R | 2858 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19195900 | Method and System for Provision of Position Information of an Object in a Magnetic Stray Field | HARRISON, MICHAEL A | 2852 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19186801 | COMBINATION OF X-RAY INSTALLATIONS TO FORM AN X-RAY SYSTEM | SONG, HOON K | 2884 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19179458 | ASSESSING THE RISK OF AN UNEXPECTED MOVEMENT OF AT LEAST ONE DEVICE DURING A VASCULAR INTERVENTION | SEBASTIAN, KAITLYN E | 3797 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19177169 | REMOTE ASSISTANCE OF A MEDICAL INTERVENTION | BALAJ, ANTHONY MICHAEL | 3682 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19094363 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING A MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGE DATASET OF A BODY PART OF A SUBJECT | PARK, PATRICIA JOO YOUNG | 3798 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 79d | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19090955 | TECHNIQUE FOR DETERMINING PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS USING MRI SCANS | PEHLKE, CAROLYN A | 3799 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2025 |
| 19088046 | METHOD FOR SCATTERED-RADIATION CORRECTION AND APPARATUS | MAUPIN, HUGH H | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19087512 | SEPARABLE SPINE COIL | PATEL, RISHI R | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2025 |
| 19083417 | DEMAND-ORIENTED FUNCTIONAL TESTS FOR THE EFFICIENT DETECTION OF SPORADIC ERRORS BASED ON A PATIENT-SPECIFIC RISK ASSESSMENT | WENDEROTH, FREDERICK | 2852 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19081138 | Imaging Modality with Patient Positioning Specification | NGANGA, BONIFACE N | 3797 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 17, 2025 |
| 19079625 | Computer-Implemented Method for Operating a Magnetic Resonance Device for Acquiring Magnetic Resonance Data, Magnetic Resonance Device, Computer Program and Electronically Readable Storage Medium | PATEL, RISHI R | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2025 |
| 19077235 | ESTIMATING A RATE OF RANDOMLY-OCCURRING COINCIDENCES IN A COUNTING X-RAY DETECTOR | FAYE, MAMADOU | 2884 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 19076605 | METHOD FOR PERFORMING A MAGNETIC RESONANCE MEASUREMENT COMPRISING MULTIPLE PARTIAL MEASUREMENTS | HYDER, G.M. ALI | — | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 11, 2025 |
| 19073247 | Computer-Implemented Method for Supporting and/or Assisting a User by Means of an Assistance System When Executing a Measurement Program During Magnetic Resonance Data Acquisition | WENDEROTH, FREDERICK | 2852 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 07, 2025 |
| 19070517 | MEDICAL INSTRUMENT FOR USE IN A MAGNETIC RESONANCE TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING | EDUN, DEAN NAWAAB | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | 44d overdue | Pending | Mar 04, 2025 |
| 19063638 | X-RAY ROTATING ANODE WITH REDUCED EXTRAFOCAL X-RAY RADIATION | GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19063700 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA FROM A ROTATING PORTION OF A MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICE TO A STATIONARY PORTION OF THE MEDICAL IMAGING DEVICE AND MEDICAL IMAGING FACILITY | GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 2884 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19063807 | MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM WITH A MAIN RAIL SYSTEM AND A SECURING RAIL SYSTEM | THOMAS, COURTNEY D | 2884 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19060689 | DETERMINING A CONFIGURATION FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | WENDEROTH, FREDERICK | 2852 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2025 |
| 19058126 | Patient Seat and Magnetic Resonance Device | ZHANG, LEI | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19058417 | DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL THERAPY PLANNING | BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS | 2884 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19051530 | Magnetic Resonance System Comprising a Magnetic Resonance Apparatus and an Elastography Apparatus | PATEL, RISHI R | 2858 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19043614 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SEGMENTING AN OBJECT IN A SOURCE IMAGE | VAZ, JANICE EZVI | 2667 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19037277 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN X-RAY APPARATUS, X-RAY APPARATUS, COMPUTING DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND ELECTRONICALLY READABLE DATA STORAGE MEDIUM | HANSEN, CONNOR LEVI | 2672 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 26, 2025 |
| 18998437 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TRAINING SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS AND METHOD | PATEL, JAYESH A | 2677 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19035119 | Technique for Tracking Objects in Medical Imaging Time Series | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | 2661 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2025 |
| 19033827 | Method for Operating an Imaging Apparatus, an Imaging Apparatus, a Computer Program, and an Electronically Readable Data Carrier | MONTICELLO, WILLIAM THOMAS | 3682 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 19032888 | CAMERA-BASED GUIDANCE FOR NEEDLE INTERVENTION | PARK, PATRICIA JOO YOUNG | 3798 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Jan 21, 2025 |
| 19032163 | REDUCTION OF ARTIFACTS IN SPECTRAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE DATA | KAUR, JASPREET | 2662 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 20, 2025 |
| 19027148 | X-RAY IMAGING METHOD, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | LE, MICHAEL | 2614 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19026750 | Super Resolution with Reduced Input Data Volume | PATEL, JAYESH A | 2677 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19018004 | Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction | DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH | 2675 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19015619 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING AN OPERATION MODE FOR AN X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 2884 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 09, 2025 |
| 19008731 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING ITEMS OF OBJECT INFORMATION IN A MEDICAL EXAMINATION AND/OR TREATMENT ARRANGEMENT, MEDICAL EXAMINATION AND/OR TREATMENT ARRANGEMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND ELECTRONICALLY READABLE DATA MEDIUM | PARK, CHAN S | 2669 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 03, 2025 |
| 18991688 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING IMAGE DATA USING PILOT TONE | ROBINSON, NICHOLAS A | 3798 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 40d | Pending | Dec 22, 2024 |
| 18973173 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A CONTRAST AGENT ALERT | HOANG, HAN DINH | 2661 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 09, 2024 |
| 18966448 | Technique for Optical Property per Sampling Point Medical Image Rendering | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18967254 | METHOD FOR REPRESENTING AT LEAST ONE MEDICAL INSTRUMENT IN A HOLLOW ORGAN, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | DU, HAIXIA | 2611 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18964439 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION OF AN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION | TUNG, KEE M | 2615 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSiemens Healthineers AG has 248 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 82 art units and 205 examiners.
Rishi R Patel has the most, with 8 of Siemens Healthineers AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
