Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Communications • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
269 pending office actions • 77 art units • 221 examiners • 0 of 269 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 530 patents granted in the last 365 days
Siemens Healthineers AG is currently managing 265 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These actions are distributed among 216 distinct examiners, reflecting a broad engagement with the patent office's examining corps. The busiest examiner for this portfolio is PATEL, RISHI R, who is currently overseeing 8 pending office actions.
The 265 pending office actions are spread across 75 distinct art units. This high number of 75 art units indicates that the portfolio spans a vast array of specialized technical fields within the medical sector. Although PATEL, RISHI R is the busiest examiner with 8 pending actions, this represents a small fraction of the total actions. The involvement of 216 distinct examiners across the art units suggests a highly diversified prosecution environment where individual examiner influence is limited relative to the overall volume of pending matters.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 66 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. 66 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 | 66 (25%) |
| §103 only | 91 (34%) |
| §102 only | 13 (5%) |
| §112 only | 5 (2%) |
| Double-patenting only | 4 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (1%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 82 (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 | 9 | 82.6% | +2.3% |
| FAYE, MAMADOU | 5 | 78.5% | +6.4% |
| BRYANT, MICHAEL CASEY | 5 | 78.4% | +17.0% |
| WENDEROTH, FREDERICK | 3 | 92.9% | -2.5% |
| EDUN, DEAN NAWAAB | 3 | 50.9% | +59.2% |
| GUNBERG, EDWIN C | 3 | 78.1% | +6.9% |
| KEFAYATI, SOORENA | 3 | 83.7% | +7.5% |
| POPESCU, GABRIEL VICTOR | 3 | 64.7% | +31.4% |
| SANGHERA, STEVEN G.S. | 3 | 30.5% | +30.1% |
| CHOI, TIMOTHY WING HO | 3 | 60.1% | +35.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| 19015619 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING AN OPERATION MODE FOR AN X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | — |
| 18892788 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING MATERIAL THICKNESSES IN RADIOLOGICAL PROJECTION IMAGES | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | — |
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 |
| 18043995 | SAMPLE STATUS VISUALIZATION METHODS AND DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY SYSTEMS INCLUDING SAME | GO, JOHN PHILIP | 85d overdue |
| 18365278 | MEDICAL IMAGE SYNTHESIS | POTTS, RYAN PATRICK | 78d overdue |
| 18151760 | MACHINE LEARNING BASED ON RADIOLOGY REPORT | COLEMAN, CHARLES P. | 56d overdue |
| 17837174 | DIFFERENTIAL VOLTAGE MEASURING SYSTEM FOR MEASURING THE BREATHING ACTIVITY OF A PATIENT | PATEL, NIDHI NIRAJ | 45d overdue |
| 16631644 | SCANSOFT: A METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF GENOMIC DELETIONS AND DUPLICATIONS IN MASSIVE PARALLEL SEQUENCING DATA | DHARITHREESAN, NIDHI | 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 |
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 |
| 18171744 | METHOD FOR GENERATING TRAINING DATA AND FOR TRAINING A DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHM FOR DETECTION OF A DISEASE INFORMATION, METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETECTION OF A DISEASE INFORMATION | CHOI, TIMOTHY WING HO | 35d overdue |
| 18065897 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MOVEMENT COMPENSATION DURING CT RECONSTRUCTION | CHOI, TIMOTHY WING HO | 9d |
| 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 |
| 18960176 | METHOD FOR VISUALIZING SCATTERED RADIATION AND MEDICAL SYSTEM | BRYANT, MICHAEL CASEY | — |
| 18960363 | COOLING APPARATUS FOR DISSIPATING HEAT FROM AN X-RAY CONVERTER ELEMENT, CT DETECTOR MODULE AND CT DEVICE | BRYANT, MICHAEL CASEY | — |
| 18892811 | IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING PROJECTION IMAGES | BRYANT, MICHAEL CASEY | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3798 | 22 |
| 3797 | 17 |
| 2884 | 14 |
| 3684 | 6 |
| 2896 | 5 |
| 3791 | 5 |
| 3682 | 4 |
| 2667 | 4 |
| 3685 | 4 |
| 3683 | 4 |
| 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 |
| 19324470 | Magnetic Resonance Apparatus with a Monitoring User Interface and a Patient Interface | BYKHOVSKI, ALEXEI | 3798 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 10, 2025 |
| 19321362 | Body Part Cushion | FRITH, SEAN A | 3798 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 08, 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 |
| 19267702 | Method, computer program, controller for a mobile medical apparatus and mobile medical apparatus | YOUNG, TIFFANY P | 3665 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 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 |
| 19215451 | Scanning Procedure Determination | NEWTON, CHAD A | — | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 22, 2025 |
| 19207746 | Medical Imaging Apparatus with a Patient Support Apparatus | ROY, BAISAKHI | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 19195900 | Method and System for Provision of Position Information of an Object in a Magnetic Stray Field | HARRISON, MICHAEL A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19195871 | Magnetic Resonance Apparatus with a Laser Marking Unit | PATEL, RISHI R | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 01, 2025 |
| 19186801 | COMBINATION OF X-RAY INSTALLATIONS TO FORM AN X-RAY SYSTEM | SONG, HOON K | — | §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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2025 |
| 19090636 | Elastography Apparatus for MR Elastography | CELESTINE, NYROBI I | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 26, 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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 24, 2025 |
| 19087512 | SEPARABLE SPINE COIL | PATEL, RISHI R | — | §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 | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 19081138 | Imaging Modality with Patient Positioning Specification | NGANGA, BONIFACE N | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | 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 | — | §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 | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 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 | — | §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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19063670 | MAGNETIC RESONANCE LOCAL COIL ARRANGEMENT IN MULTIPLE PARTS WITH A LOWHEIGHT BOTTOM SECTION | VARGAS MONTALVO, DIXOMARA | 3798 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 15d | 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 | — | §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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19060689 | DETERMINING A CONFIGURATION FOR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | WENDEROTH, FREDERICK | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 22, 2025 |
| 19058417 | DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL THERAPY PLANNING | BOOSALIS, FANI POLYZOS | — | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19058126 | Patient Seat and Magnetic Resonance Device | ZHANG, LEI | 3798 | §103 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19051530 | Magnetic Resonance System Comprising a Magnetic Resonance Apparatus and an Elastography Apparatus | PATEL, RISHI R | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 12, 2025 |
| 19043614 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SEGMENTING AN OBJECT IN A SOURCE IMAGE | VAZ, JANICE EZVI | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 18998437 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TRAINING SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS AND METHOD | PATEL, JAYESH A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 24, 2025 |
| 19035119 | Technique for Tracking Objects in Medical Imaging Time Series | ALLEN, KYLA GUAN-PING TI | — | §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 | — | §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 | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19026750 | Super Resolution with Reduced Input Data Volume | PATEL, JAYESH A | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
| 19018004 | Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction | DEPALMA, CAROLINE ELIZABETH | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19015619 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING AN OPERATION MODE FOR AN X-RAY IMAGING SYSTEM | KEFAYATI, SOORENA | — | §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 | — | §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 |
| 18967254 | METHOD FOR REPRESENTING AT LEAST ONE MEDICAL INSTRUMENT IN A HOLLOW ORGAN, DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT | DU, HAIXIA | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18966448 | Technique for Optical Property per Sampling Point Medical Image Rendering | TSWEI, YU-JANG | — | §103 | Final Rejection | — | 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 |
| 18963918 | MONITORING SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A PATIENT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE MONITORING SYSTEM | ZHAI, KYLE | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2024 |
| 18962103 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR OPERATING AN X-RAY DEVICE, AND X-RAY DEVICE | YUN, JURIE | — | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18961736 | MEDICAL FOUNDATION MODEL FOR VARIABLE NUMBER OF 3D ANISOTROPIC MEDICAL IMAGES | SANTOS, DANIEL JOSEPH | 2667 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialSiemens Healthineers AG has 269 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 77 art units and 221 examiners.
Rishi R Patel has the most, with 9 of Siemens Healthineers AG's pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.