Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC

10 pending office actions • 4 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 15 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
7
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
2
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
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. 10 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (2)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

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.

4
Hard (40%)
3
Medium (30%)
3
Easy (30%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only4 (40%)
§103 only3 (30%)
§112 only3 (30%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
2
Information Tech
20% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
5
Semiconductors
50% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
1
Business / Other
10% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 2 37.6% +32.2%
KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 2 72.6% +46.6%
RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A 2 81.0% +11.8%
CHOI, ALICIA M 1 79.2% +28.6%
BHAT, ADITYA S 1 81.0% +9.2%
TON, MY TRANG 1 81.7% +16.0%
NORTON, JENNIFER L 1 49.9% +1.6%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18088336 MULTIPLE-TRX PICO BASE STATION FOR PROVIDING IMPROVED WIRELESS CAPACITY AND COVERAGE IN A BUILDING TON, MY TRANG 87d overdue
18081218 DATA COLLECTION IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT USING MACHINE LEARNING TO FORECAST FUTURE STATES OF INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT BASED ON NOISE VALUES RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A 13d

Hard Cases (4)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18081352 INDUSTRIAL DIGITAL TWIN SYSTEMS USING STATE VALUE TO ADJUST INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION PROCESSES AND DETERMINE RELEVANCE WITH ROLE TAXONOMY STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 49d overdue
18204273 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION IN AN INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS DATA COLLECTION ENVIRONMENT WITH EXPERT SYSTEMS TO PREDICT FAILURES AND SYSTEM STATE FOR SLOW ROTATING COMPONENTS BHAT, ADITYA S 44d overdue
17493440 INDUSTRIAL DIGITAL TWIN SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH ECHELONS OF EXECUTIVE, ADVISORY AND OPERATIONS MESSAGING AND VISUALIZATION STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 54d
16684651 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA COLLECTION, LEARNING, AND STREAMING OF MACHINE SIGNALS FOR ANALYTICS AND MAINTENANCE USING THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A 70d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18088336 MULTIPLE-TRX PICO BASE STATION FOR PROVIDING IMPROVED WIRELESS CAPACITY AND COVERAGE IN A BUILDING TON, MY TRANG 87d overdue
18073925 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SENSOR FUSION IN A PRODUCTION LINE ENVIRONMENT KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 81d overdue
18240175 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA DETECTION AND DISPLAY IN AN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT WITH INTERNET OF THINGS DATA COLLECTION INCLUDING AN ADAPTIVE HEAT MAP CHOI, ALICIA M 60d overdue
18081352 INDUSTRIAL DIGITAL TWIN SYSTEMS USING STATE VALUE TO ADJUST INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION PROCESSES AND DETERMINE RELEVANCE WITH ROLE TAXONOMY STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 49d overdue
18081088 DATA COLLECTION IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT WITH ROLE-BASED REPORTING TO RECONFIGURE ROUTE BY WHICH SYSTEM SENDS THE SENSOR DATA KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 32d overdue
18081218 DATA COLLECTION IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT USING MACHINE LEARNING TO FORECAST FUTURE STATES OF INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT BASED ON NOISE VALUES RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A 13d
17493440 INDUSTRIAL DIGITAL TWIN SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH ECHELONS OF EXECUTIVE, ADVISORY AND OPERATIONS MESSAGING AND VISUALIZATION STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 54d
16684651 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA COLLECTION, LEARNING, AND STREAMING OF MACHINE SIGNALS FOR ANALYTICS AND MAINTENANCE USING THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2857 5
2117 2
3623 2
3992 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18240175 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA DETECTION AND DISPLAY IN AN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT WITH INTERNET OF THINGS DATA COLLECTION INCLUDING AN ADAPTIVE HEAT MAP CHOI, ALICIA M 2117 §112 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2023
18204273 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTION IN AN INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS DATA COLLECTION ENVIRONMENT WITH EXPERT SYSTEMS TO PREDICT FAILURES AND SYSTEM STATE FOR SLOW ROTATING COMPONENTS BHAT, ADITYA S 2857 §101 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending May 31, 2023
18088336 MULTIPLE-TRX PICO BASE STATION FOR PROVIDING IMPROVED WIRELESS CAPACITY AND COVERAGE IN A BUILDING TON, MY TRANG 3992 §112 Non-Final OA 87d overdue Pending Dec 23, 2022
18081352 INDUSTRIAL DIGITAL TWIN SYSTEMS USING STATE VALUE TO ADJUST INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION PROCESSES AND DETERMINE RELEVANCE WITH ROLE TAXONOMY STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 3623 §101 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
18081088 DATA COLLECTION IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT WITH ROLE-BASED REPORTING TO RECONFIGURE ROUTE BY WHICH SYSTEM SENDS THE SENSOR DATA KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 2857 §103 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
18081218 DATA COLLECTION IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT USING MACHINE LEARNING TO FORECAST FUTURE STATES OF INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT BASED ON NOISE VALUES RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A 2857 §112 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Dec 14, 2022
18073925 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SENSOR FUSION IN A PRODUCTION LINE ENVIRONMENT KUAN, JOHN CHUNYANG 2857 §103 Final Rejection 81d overdue Pending Dec 02, 2022
17940526 QUANTUM, BIOLOGICAL, COMPUTER VISION, AND NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEMS FOR INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS NORTON, JENNIFER L 2117 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Sep 08, 2022
17493440 INDUSTRIAL DIGITAL TWIN SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH ECHELONS OF EXECUTIVE, ADVISORY AND OPERATIONS MESSAGING AND VISUALIZATION STIVALETTI, MATHEUS R 3623 §101 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Oct 04, 2021
16684651 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA COLLECTION, LEARNING, AND STREAMING OF MACHINE SIGNALS FOR ANALYTICS AND MAINTENANCE USING THE INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS RIVERA VARGAS, MANUEL A 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Nov 15, 2019

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