Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

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48 pending office actions • 32 art units • 44 examiners • 0 of 48 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 197 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

48
Total Pending OAs
24
Non-Final OAs
16
Final Rejections
8
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 48 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

23
Overdue
2
Due this week
17
Due this month
3
Due in next 60 days
3
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. 48 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (23)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (17)Due ≤ 60 days (3)Due later (3)

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.

27
Hard (56%)
14
Medium (29%)
6
Easy (12%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only27 (56%)
§103 only14 (29%)
§112 only6 (12%)
No statute on record1 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

4
Life Sciences
8% of docket
10
Information Tech
21% of docket
1
Communications
2% of docket
3
Semiconductors
6% of docket
30
Mechanical / Eng
62% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

480 h
Manual time on pending OAs
96 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
168 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 2 27.2% +24.8%
SHEIKH, ASFAND M 2 46.2% +48.2%
BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER 2 63.4% +42.5%
BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 2 17.6% +37.5%
MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE 1 18.8% +25.1%
SAINT-VIL, EDDY 1 42.2% +29.7%
ALI, JAHED 1 61.5% +56.1%
SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N 1 6.3% +8.4%
LAU, HOI CHING 1 74.3% +16.2%
DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON 1 0.0% +0.0%

Hard Cases (30)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
17663240 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXPLAINABLE MACHINE LEARNING USING DATA AND PROXY MODEL BASED HYBRID APPROACH RIFKIN, BEN M 140d overdue
17822722 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO INTERVIEWERS RUSS, COREY V 138d overdue
18367546 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING CLINICAL EFFICACY OF MULTI-LABEL MULTI-CLASS COMPUTATIONAL DIAGNOSTIC MODELS CHOI, DAVID 133d overdue
17760297 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL TIME TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION NORTON, JENNIFER L 126d overdue
17953699 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING ASSORTMENT TOOL AND INTEGRATION OF APPLICATIONS FOR HYPER LOCALIZATION SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR 105d overdue
18598228 DEMAND DRIVEN, CONSTRAINT-BASED AND COST OPTIMIZED INBOUND CONTAINER PRIORITIZATION FOR RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAIN GODBOLD, DAVID GARRISON 103d overdue
18145534 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 89d overdue
17376663 MANAGING DYNAMICALLY ADAPTIVE SUPPLY NETWORK AND SYSTEM THEREFOR MUNSON, PATRICIA H 78d overdue

Interview Candidates (12)

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
18145534 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 89d overdue
18966228 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-STAGE TESTING (MST) CALIBRATION SAINT-VIL, EDDY 53d overdue
18934358 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING SUSTAINABILITY OF A FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK USING DIGITAL TWIN HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 46d overdue
18963032 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REAL-TIME CONFIGURATION OF ASSET LICENSING FRAMEWORK FOR GENERATING NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS ALI, JAHED 42d overdue
18214612 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING ELECTROLYTE COMPOSITION FOR OPTIMAL BATTERY PERFORMANCE BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER 5d
18491061 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) OPERATIONAL ENDURANCE OF AN ENTITY SHEIKH, ASFAND M 13d
18430459 MULTI-LEVEL RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT OF VENDORS BASED ON MULTI-DIMENSIONAL RELIABILITY SCORE SHEIKH, ASFAND M 14d
19004573 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING PRODUCT REVENUE MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3624 6
3625 3
3627 3
2858 3
3692 2
3628 2
3626 2
2123 2
1687 2
3715 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19004573 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING PRODUCT REVENUE MINOR, AYANNA YVETTE 3624 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Dec 30, 2024
18966228 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-STAGE TESTING (MST) CALIBRATION SAINT-VIL, EDDY 3715 §101 Non-Final OA 53d overdue Pending Dec 03, 2024
18963032 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REAL-TIME CONFIGURATION OF ASSET LICENSING FRAMEWORK FOR GENERATING NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS ALI, JAHED 3699 §112 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Nov 27, 2024
18954277 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTING OPTIMAL ENERGY GENERATION SCHEDULE IN MULTI-ENERGY HUBS SCHEUNEMANN, RICHARD N 3624 §101 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Nov 20, 2024
18952793 ALCOHOL INTOXICATION STATE DETECTION USING A WEARABLE DEVICE AND A MOBILE DEVICE LAU, HOI CHING 2689 §101 Non-Final OA 57d Pending Nov 19, 2024
18934358 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING SUSTAINABILITY OF A FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORK USING DIGITAL TWIN HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 3625 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Nov 01, 2024
18901130 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE MANEUVER PREDICTION USING DEEP LEARNING DIZON, EDWARD ANDREW IZON 3663 §103 Non-Final OA 43d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2024
18897198 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CARBON-AWARE STORAGE SERVICE SELECTION IN THE MULTI-CLOUD ENVIRONMENT BROWN, SARA GRACE 3625 §101 Final Rejection 14d Pending Sep 26, 2024
18826572 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTIMATING RISK OF ENTERPRISE APPLICATION FOR QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY MIGRATION LITTLE, VANCE M 2494 §101 Non-Final OA 15d overdue Pending Sep 06, 2024
18826475 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING BEHAVIOR EMBEDDED ENTITY SPECIFIC CRYPTOCURRENCY TRANSACTIONS TURK, BROCK E 3692 §112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 06, 2024
18793088 LEVERAGING BLOCKCHAIN AND CONDITIONAL HOMOMORPHIC PROXY RE-ENCRYPTION FOR ENHANCED TRANSACTION PRIVACY AND AUDITING JIMENEZ, JUSTIN ABEL 3697 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending Aug 02, 2024
18672156 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRUSTED SELF-CHECKOUT AT RETAIL STORES HAYLES, ASHFORD S 3627 §101 Non-Final OA 35d overdue Pending May 23, 2024
18659085 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MICRO-ACTIVITY IDENTIFICATION HO, THOMAS Y 3624 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending May 09, 2024
18651432 ELECTRONIC BEAM-STEERING REFLECTARRAY ANTENNA SYSTEM WITH VARACTOR DIODE EMBEDDED COMB-SHAPED UNIT CELL GOSLING, ANNA KOBACKER 3648 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Apr 30, 2024
18603014 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFICATION AND REPLENISHMENT OF TARGETED ITEMS ON SHELVES OF STORES HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 3625 §101 Final Rejection 30d Pending Mar 12, 2024
18598228 DEMAND DRIVEN, CONSTRAINT-BASED AND COST OPTIMIZED INBOUND CONTAINER PRIORITIZATION FOR RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAIN GODBOLD, DAVID GARRISON 3628 §101 Final Rejection 103d overdue Pending Mar 07, 2024
18430459 MULTI-LEVEL RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT OF VENDORS BASED ON MULTI-DIMENSIONAL RELIABILITY SCORE SHEIKH, ASFAND M 3626 §101 Final Rejection 14d Pending Feb 01, 2024
18414297 INTER-BANK TRANSACTION WITH PRIVACY ENABLED AUDITING AND PRIVACY ENABLED INTER-BANK SETTLEMENTS IN BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK ABDULLAEV, AMANULLA 3692 §101 Final Rejection 75d Pending Jan 16, 2024
18393358 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CARDIAC ABNORMALITIES USING CHAOS-BASED CLASSIFICATION MODEL FROM MULTI-LEAD ECG WELCH, WILLOW GRACE 3792 §101 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18530300 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTO REPAIRING VULNERABLE CODE PROGRAM FRAGMENTS OF A SOFTWARE SHAW, PETER C 2493 §103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Dec 06, 2023
18512854 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTATION OF PRICE ELASTICITY FOR OPTIMAL PRICING OF PRODUCTS SIMPSON, DIONE N 3628 §101 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Nov 17, 2023
18493639 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF TRAINING OF CHAINED NEURAL NETWORKS FOR DELAY PREDICTION IN TRANSIT NETWORKS ANDERSON, FOLASHADE 3623 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Oct 24, 2023
18491061 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) OPERATIONAL ENDURANCE OF AN ENTITY SHEIKH, ASFAND M 3626 §101 Non-Final OA 13d Pending Oct 20, 2023
18367546 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EVALUATING CLINICAL EFFICACY OF MULTI-LABEL MULTI-CLASS COMPUTATIONAL DIAGNOSTIC MODELS CHOI, DAVID 3684 §101 Non-Final OA 133d overdue Pending Sep 13, 2023
18227480 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING 2D REPRESENTATION OF ELECTROCARDIOGRAM (ECG) SIGNALS GARTLAND, SCOTT D 3685 §103 Non-Final OA 121d overdue Pending Jul 28, 2023
18354093 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR JOINTLY PRUNING AND HARDWARE ACCELERATION OF PRE-TRAINED DEEP LEARNING MODELS HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON 2127 §103 Non-Final OA 42d Pending Jul 18, 2023
18214612 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING ELECTROLYTE COMPOSITION FOR OPTIMAL BATTERY PERFORMANCE BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER 2858 §101 Final Rejection 5d Pending Jun 27, 2023
18323012 OPTIMAL INTRADAY SCHEDULING OF AGGREGATED DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES (DERs) BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 3624 §101 Final Rejection 28d Pending May 24, 2023
18319077 NON-INVASIVE METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING QUALITY OF PACKAGED MILK BORTOLI, JONATHAN 1797 §112 Non-Final OA 1d overdue Pending May 17, 2023
18318380 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADVERSARIAL MULTI-ARCHITECTURE BASED DELAY PREDICTION IN SCHEDULED TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS RYLANDER, BART I 2124 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending May 16, 2023
18134097 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA EXPLORATION ANALYSIS BASED CONVENANTS CATEGORIZATION AND RECOMMENDATION THEREOF MUSTAFA, MOHAMMED H 3693 §101 Final Rejection 15d Pending Apr 13, 2023
18181376 RETAIL SPACE PLANNING THROUGH PATTERN RECOGNITION CHEIN, ALLEN C 3627 §101 Final Rejection 9d Pending Mar 09, 2023
18145534 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USER PERFORMANCE EVALUATION BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 3624 §101 Final Rejection 89d overdue Pending Dec 22, 2022
18059710 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MUTUAL INFORMATION (MI) BASED SPIKE ENCODING OPTIMIZATION OF MULTIVARIATE DATA RUTTEN, JAMES D 2121 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 29, 2022
18049358 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REAL TIME ESTIMATION OF PRESSURE CHANGE REQUIREMENTS FOR ROTARY CUTTERS BRAUNLICH, MARTIN WALTER 2858 §112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Oct 25, 2022
17970886 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ATTENTIVE ONE SHOT META IMITATION LEARNING FROM VISUAL DEMONSTRATION HAN, KYU HYUNG 2123 §103 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Oct 21, 2022
18048055 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPECTRUM MATCHING FOR HYPERSPECTRAL AND MULTISPECTRAL DATA LEE, SANGKYUNG 2858 §101 Non-Final OA 28d Pending Oct 20, 2022
17953699 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING ASSORTMENT TOOL AND INTEGRATION OF APPLICATIONS FOR HYPER LOCALIZATION SALMAN, AVIA ABDULSATTAR 3627 §101 Final Rejection 105d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2022
17822722 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO INTERVIEWERS RUSS, COREY V 3629 §101 Non-Final OA 138d overdue Pending Aug 26, 2022
17760297 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL TIME TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION NORTON, JENNIFER L 2117 §101 Non-Final OA 126d overdue Pending Aug 05, 2022
17663240 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXPLAINABLE MACHINE LEARNING USING DATA AND PROXY MODEL BASED HYBRID APPROACH RIFKIN, BEN M 2123 §101 Non-Final OA 140d overdue Pending May 13, 2022
17490425 ESTIMATING CARDIAC PARAMETERS WHEN PERFORMING AN ACTIVITY USING A PERSONALIZED CARDIOVASCULAR HEMODYNAMIC MODEL SANFORD, DIANA PATRICIA 1687 §101 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Sep 30, 2021
17472315 ENSEMBLE GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORK BASED SIMULATION OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE SPECIFIC BIOMEDICAL SIGNALS ANDERSON-FEARS, KEENAN NEIL 1687 §103 Final Rejection 57d Pending Sep 10, 2021
17376663 MANAGING DYNAMICALLY ADAPTIVE SUPPLY NETWORK AND SYSTEM THEREFOR MUNSON, PATRICIA H 3624 §101 Final Rejection 78d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2021
17361974 DETECTION OF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOUR OF DEVICES FROM ASSOCIATED UNLABELED SENSOR OBSERVATIONS ALGHAZZY, SHAMCY 2128 §101 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Jun 29, 2021
17348455 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING PREDICTABLE FIELDS IN AN APPLICATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY 2122 §103 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Jun 15, 2021
17205407 LIFT AND ROTATE UNIT FOR LIFTING AND ROTATING A PLURALITY OF PAYLOADS DEONAUTH, NIRVANA 3726 §112 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2021
17136351 IN-SILICO DESIGN OF ELECTROPORATION EXPERIMENTS FOR TOPICAL AND TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY APPLICATIONS DHARITHREESAN, NIDHI 1686 Other Non-Final OA 6d Pending Dec 29, 2020

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