Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
8 pending office actions • 7 art units • 8 examiners • 0 of 8 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 54 patents granted in the last 365 days
Synaptics Incorporated has 8 pending office actions in Communications. The matters are assigned to 8 distinct examiners across 7 distinct art units. HUYNH, KIM T is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. The examiner count matches the pending-action count, so the profile shows no repeated examiner assignment.
The small difference between art-unit and examiner coverage indicates limited technical grouping but broad individual assignment. Counsel should maintain a consistent communications claim strategy while reviewing each action for its specific prior-art and eligibility issues. Since the busiest examiner has only one listed matter, the profile supports docket-wide process controls rather than examiner-specific concentration management.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 4 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. 4 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 | 6 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUYNH, KIM T | 1 | 82.6% | +7.2% |
| ZHAI, KYLE | 1 | 75.2% | +18.3% |
| KIYABU, KARIN A | 1 | 57.1% | +39.5% |
| SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 1 | 66.7% | +43.8% |
| VAN ROIE, JUSTIN T | 1 | 82.9% | +36.5% |
| ABEBE, SOSINA | 1 | 72.9% | +18.2% |
| MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER | 1 | 32.4% | +53.0% |
| BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 1 | 51.6% | +37.3% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18397787 | REACHABILITY DETECTION FOR DIGITAL ENHANCED CORDLESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS (DECT) ULTRA LOW ENERGY (ULE) DEVICES | VAN ROIE, JUSTIN T | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18538098 | FAIL-SAFE ARCHITECTURE FOR LOCAL DIMMING DISPLAY DEVICE | ABEBE, SOSINA | 29d overdue |
| 19208410 | MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATION ARCHITECTURE | HUYNH, KIM T | — |
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 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18538098 | FAIL-SAFE ARCHITECTURE FOR LOCAL DIMMING DISPLAY DEVICE | ABEBE, SOSINA | 29d overdue |
| 18739155 | MULTI-DISPLAY SUPPORT FOR MOBILE DEVICES | KIYABU, KARIN A | 7d |
| 18310955 | AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION FOR MULTI-CHANNEL BEAMFORMING BASED ON PERSONAL VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION (VAD) | MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER | 29d |
| 17936321 | RECONFIGURABLE MULTILAYER IMAGE PROCESSING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORK | BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 55d |
| 18923912 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ICON OVERLAY | ZHAI, KYLE | — |
| 18653859 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEURAL NETWORK BASED TOUCH CLASSIFICATION IN A TOUCH SENSOR | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | — |
| 18397787 | REACHABILITY DETECTION FOR DIGITAL ENHANCED CORDLESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS (DECT) ULTRA LOW ENERGY (ULE) DEVICES | VAN ROIE, JUSTIN T | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2626 | 2 |
| 2184 | 1 |
| 2611 | 1 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2469 | 1 |
| 2654 | 1 |
| 2124 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19208410 | MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATION ARCHITECTURE | HUYNH, KIM T | 2184 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 14, 2025 |
| 18923912 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ICON OVERLAY | ZHAI, KYLE | 2611 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18739155 | MULTI-DISPLAY SUPPORT FOR MOBILE DEVICES | KIYABU, KARIN A | 2626 | §103 | Final Rejection | 7d | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18653859 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NEURAL NETWORK BASED TOUCH CLASSIFICATION IN A TOUCH SENSOR | SALEH, ZAID MUHAMMAD | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2024 |
| 18397787 | REACHABILITY DETECTION FOR DIGITAL ENHANCED CORDLESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS (DECT) ULTRA LOW ENERGY (ULE) DEVICES | VAN ROIE, JUSTIN T | 2469 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18538098 | FAIL-SAFE ARCHITECTURE FOR LOCAL DIMMING DISPLAY DEVICE | ABEBE, SOSINA | 2626 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 29d overdue | Pending | Dec 13, 2023 |
| 18310955 | AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION FOR MULTI-CHANNEL BEAMFORMING BASED ON PERSONAL VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION (VAD) | MEIS, JON CHRISTOPHER | 2654 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 29d | Pending | May 02, 2023 |
| 17936321 | RECONFIGURABLE MULTILAYER IMAGE PROCESSING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NETWORK | BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | 2124 | §103 | Final Rejection | 55d | Pending | Sep 28, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialSynaptics Incorporated has 8 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 7 art units and 8 examiners.
Kim T Huynh has the most, with 1 of Synaptics Incorporated's pending office actions.
Mostly Communications (USPTO Tech Center 2600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
