Technology areas: Computing & Software • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
12 pending office actions • 12 art units • 12 examiners • 0 of 12 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 17 patents granted in the last 365 days
SigmaStar Technology Ltd. currently has 12 pending office actions in the Computing & Software technology area. These 12 actions are distributed across 12 distinct examiners, meaning that every pending matter is being reviewed by a different individual. This one-to-one ratio between actions and examiners suggests a highly diversified prosecution landscape where no single examiner's perspective dominates the portfolio. Furthermore, the portfolio is active in 12 distinct art units, indicating a broad range of technical focus where each action is essentially in its own specialized group.
The busiest examiner, KHAN, MASUD K, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Since no examiner is handling more than 1 of the 12 pending office actions, the portfolio's progress is entirely decentralized. This requires the applicant to manage 12 separate examiner relationships simultaneously across 12 distinct art units. The high number of art units suggests that the prosecution must be adapted to twelve different sets of administrative standards and technical benchmarks. With 12 pending office actions in total, the company's success depends on the individual decisions of 12 different examiners working in these 12 units. This structure ensures that each of the 12 matters is treated as a unique case.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 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. 3 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 + other | 2 (17%) |
| §103 only | 3 (25%) |
| §102 only | 2 (17%) |
| §112 only | 2 (17%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| KHAN, MASUD K | 1 | 87.5% | +6.8% |
| COBB, MICHAEL J | 1 | 76.9% | +35.5% |
| SHAW, LAUREN ASHLEY | 1 | 97.0% | +4.8% |
| KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 1 | 74.2% | +14.3% |
| ALMO, KHAREEM E | 1 | 87.4% | +5.8% |
| PARRA, OMAR S | 1 | 74.6% | +9.1% |
| DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI | 1 | 81.7% | +24.3% |
| TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC | 1 | 30.8% | +66.7% |
| NGUYEN, MAIKHANH | 1 | 87.1% | +29.7% |
| HAGOS, EYOB | 1 | 66.5% | +43.2% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18926559 | SIGNAL SAMPLING DEVICE FOR LOW VOLTAGE APPLICATIONS | ALMO, KHAREEM E | 35d overdue |
| 19272000 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT DEVICE | KHAN, MASUD K | — |
| 18537849 | PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND COMPUTATION SCHEDULING METHOD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL | NGUYEN, MAIKHANH | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18140182 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT DATA PROCESSING DEVICE BASED ON INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING UNIT AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD | HAGOS, EYOB | 7d |
| 18971186 | LOW DROPOUT VOLTAGE REGULATOR HAVING LOW POWER MODE | SHAW, LAUREN ASHLEY | — |
| 18791806 | MULTIMEDIA DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND MULTIMEDIA DATA PROCESSING METHOD | PARRA, OMAR S | — |
| 18650279 | VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION DEVICE AND VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION METHOD | DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI | — |
| 18070888 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONVOLUTION DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONVOLUTION METHOD | LE, PHAT NGOC | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18140182 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT DATA PROCESSING DEVICE BASED ON INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING UNIT AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD | HAGOS, EYOB | 7d |
| 18934286 | VIDEO ENCODER | KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 43d |
| 18980057 | IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | COBB, MICHAEL J | — |
| 18650279 | VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION DEVICE AND VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION METHOD | DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI | — |
| 18389842 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DEVICE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF | TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC | — |
| 18537849 | PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND COMPUTATION SCHEDULING METHOD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL | NGUYEN, MAIKHANH | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2132 | 1 |
| 2615 | 1 |
| 2838 | 1 |
| 2483 | 1 |
| 2849 | 1 |
| 2421 | 1 |
| 2653 | 1 |
| 2196 | 1 |
| 2144 | 1 |
| 2857 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19272000 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT DEVICE | KHAN, MASUD K | 2132 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2025 |
| 18980057 | IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD | COBB, MICHAEL J | 2615 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18971186 | LOW DROPOUT VOLTAGE REGULATOR HAVING LOW POWER MODE | SHAW, LAUREN ASHLEY | 2838 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 06, 2024 |
| 18934286 | VIDEO ENCODER | KIM, MATTHEW DAVID | 2483 | §103 | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18926559 | SIGNAL SAMPLING DEVICE FOR LOW VOLTAGE APPLICATIONS | ALMO, KHAREEM E | 2849 | §102 | Final Rejection | 35d overdue | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18791806 | MULTIMEDIA DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND MULTIMEDIA DATA PROCESSING METHOD | PARRA, OMAR S | 2421 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 01, 2024 |
| 18650279 | VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION DEVICE AND VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION METHOD | DUGDA, MULUGETA TUJI | 2653 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 30, 2024 |
| 18389842 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DEVICE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF | TRAN, KENNETH PHUOC | 2196 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2023 |
| 18537849 | PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND COMPUTATION SCHEDULING METHOD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL | NGUYEN, MAIKHANH | 2144 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18140182 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT DATA PROCESSING DEVICE BASED ON INTELLIGENCE PROCESSING UNIT AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD | HAGOS, EYOB | 2857 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18121333 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME | ONAT, UMUT | 2194 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2023 |
| 18070888 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONVOLUTION DEVICE AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONVOLUTION METHOD | LE, PHAT NGOC | 2182 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSigmaStar Technology Ltd. has 12 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 12 art units and 12 examiners.
Masud K Khan has the most, with 1 of SigmaStar Technology Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Computing & Software (USPTO Tech Center 2100), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
