Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Thales Group

Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

72 pending office actions • 41 art units • 67 examiners • 0 of 72 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 158 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Thales Group maintains a presence in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area with 70 pending office actions. This portfolio is characterized by examiner diversity, as the 70 actions are spread across 65 distinct examiners. This distribution indicates that the company's patent strategy is not concentrated under individuals but is instead subject to 65 different examination styles and interpretations.

The administrative reach of the portfolio covers 40 distinct art units. This suggests that Thales Group is navigating a regulatory landscape where technical disclosures span 40 specialized classifications. ZHU, NOAH YI MIN is the busiest examiner for the company, handling 2 pending office actions. This concentration of 2 actions with the busiest examiner reinforces the observation that no individual examiner dominates the prosecution pipeline. With distinct examiners involved, the company must manage examiner preferences and procedural requirements. This variety requires an approach to patent prosecution that accounts for 65 different examiners.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

72
Total Pending OAs
33
Non-Final OAs
37
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
1
Due this week
14
Due this month
2
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. 22 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (14)Due ≤ 60 days (2)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.

46
Hard (64%)
23
Medium (32%)
3
Easy (4%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only5 (7%)
§101 + other16 (22%)
§103 only21 (29%)
§102 only2 (3%)
§112 only3 (4%)
Multi-statute (no §101)25 (35%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
12
Information Tech
17% of docket
5
Communications
7% of docket
10
Semiconductors
14% of docket
29
Mechanical / Eng
40% of docket
16
Business / Other
22% 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.

720 h
Manual time on pending OAs
144 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
252 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
6.3 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ZHU, NOAH YI MIN 2 80.5% +14.5%
MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA 2 72.0% +29.3%
RONI, SYED A 2 82.1% +22.2%
DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER 2 79.1% +17.0%
GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT 2 48.3% +16.4%
LE, UYEN T 1 83.9% +9.5%
MOLNAR, HUNTER A 1 50.6% +33.1%
YOUNG, TIFFANY P 1 79.7% +22.7%
CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN 1 91.0% +55.3%
GARTRELLE, ANTHONY M 1 91.9% -8.8%

Quick Wins (4)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18848246 LAWFUL INTERCEPTION OF ACTIVITY OF AN APPLICATION FUNCTION RONI, SYED A 6d
19130017 GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR AN AIRCRAFT CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN —
19173762 Characterizing Method of Aeronautic Routes and Associated Characterizing System GARTRELLE, ANTHONY M —
18705661 METHOD TO ESTABLISH A SECURE CHANNEL RONI, SYED A —

Hard Cases (46)

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
18960451 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ENERGY FOR DESCENT AND APPROACH PHASES OF AN AIRCRAFT GLENN III, FRANK T 31d overdue
19115264 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CAPTURING A NUMERICAL CODE ENGLISH, ALECIA DIANE 23d overdue
18860051 SECURITY ELEMENT WITH COLORSHIFT LEWIS, JUSTIN V 11d overdue
18107721 DETECTION METHOD OF DECOYING OF A TRAFFIC ALERT AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM, AND ASSOCIATED TRAFFIC ALERT AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM PIATESKI, ERIN M 5d overdue
18004446 METHOD FOR SHARING DATA RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURING OF A PRODUCT WHITAKER, ANDREW B 8d
18260986 Electronic device for storing a terrain database, method for generating such a database, related avionics system, monitoring method and computer programs KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M 9d
18276032 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING SKILLS SAINT-VIL, EDDY 14d
19113036 DATA CARRIER WITH INDEPENDENT LIGHT SOURCE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING IT GUDORF, LAURA A 14d

Interview Candidates (13)

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
18848246 LAWFUL INTERCEPTION OF ACTIVITY OF AN APPLICATION FUNCTION RONI, SYED A 6d
17783098 LASER ENGRAVABLE FLOATING IMAGE FOR SECURITY LAMINATES GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT 14d
18388171 UNMANNED AIRCRAFT COMPRISING TWO RADARS MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA 22d
19249046 Method and device for determining and providing a classification, according to their environmental impact, of a plurality of separate aeronautical flights MOLNAR, HUNTER A —
19220080 Method for simultaneous localization and mapping; associated system and computer program YOUNG, TIFFANY P —
19130017 GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR AN AIRCRAFT CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN —
18880000 Method for detecting an interfering signal in a GNSS receiver and associated detection device ZHU, NOAH YI MIN —
18877267 Device and method for maintaining reliability of the positioning of a vehicle irrespective of the vulnerability of satellite data ZHU, NOAH YI MIN —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3648 4
3637 3
3662 2
3669 2
3665 2
3663 2
2432 2
2872 2
3629 2
2845 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18246850 Method and electronic device for generating a structured database of relevant data for managing a task, and associated computer program LE, UYEN T — §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 04, 2025
19249046 Method and device for determining and providing a classification, according to their environmental impact, of a plurality of separate aeronautical flights MOLNAR, HUNTER A 3628 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 25, 2025
19220080 Method for simultaneous localization and mapping; associated system and computer program YOUNG, TIFFANY P — §101§102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 28, 2025
19130017 GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR AN AIRCRAFT CHAMPAKESAN, BADRI NARAYANAN 2494 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 14, 2025
19173762 Characterizing Method of Aeronautic Routes and Associated Characterizing System GARTRELLE, ANTHONY M 3661 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 08, 2025
19171356 Evaluation method of the level of fatigue of an operator and associated evaluation system BLANCHETTE, JOSHUA B 3684 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 07, 2025
19099354 QUANTUM DISTRIBUTION METHODS AND ASSOCIATED TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICES GERGISO, TECHANE — §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 21, 2025
18725109 Method for detecting an abnormality in an electronic system in operation SURVILLO, OLEG 2457 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 15, 2025
18880000 Method for detecting an interfering signal in a GNSS receiver and associated detection device ZHU, NOAH YI MIN — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 30, 2024
18988713 SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING QUANTUM KEYS USING CORRECTION OF THE POLARIZATION OF PHOTONS VANDERPUYE, KENNETH N 2634 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 19, 2024
18877267 Device and method for maintaining reliability of the positioning of a vehicle irrespective of the vulnerability of satellite data ZHU, NOAH YI MIN 3648 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 19, 2024
18985017 CONTROL SYSTEM OF INPUTS/OUTPUTS OF AT LEAST ONE AVIONIC APPLICATION AND OPERATION VERIFICATION METHOD OF SUCH A SYSTEM NARRAMORE, BLAKE I 2438 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 18, 2024
18977922 Method for monitoring a Half Duplex Ethernet network and associated Half Duplex Ethernet network VO, TOAN — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 12, 2024
18725758 System and method for monitoring the operation of a computer SIMITOSKI, MICHAEL J 2493 §102§103 Final Rejection 16d Pending Nov 28, 2024
18960451 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ENERGY FOR DESCENT AND APPROACH PHASES OF AN AIRCRAFT GLENN III, FRANK T 3662 §103§112 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Nov 26, 2024
18954370 METHOD FOR IMPROVING A SHOOTING TRAINING GEBREMICHAEL, BRUK A — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 20, 2024
18864077 5G PLATFORM HAVING SATELLITE COVERAGE GOODWIN, SCHQUITA D — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 08, 2024
18894500 Method and system for computing a mission plan for at least one electric or hybrid electric aircraft ALLEN, PAUL MCCARTHY 3669 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 24, 2024
18848519 Method for locating a GNSS jamming source, and associated computer program product and locating device MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA — §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 19, 2024
18788297 Gyroscopic measurement method and sensor HA, NGUYEN Q — §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 30, 2024
18751271 Method for determining an emergency landing track, corresponding device and computer program GEIST, RICHARD EDWIN 3665 §102 Final Rejection 84d Pending Jun 23, 2024
18721467 METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA OF AN AIRCRAFT PILOTING ASSISTANCE DEVICE BROSH, BENJAMIN J 3658 §102§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 18, 2024
18721188 Optical window covered with a doped diamond electrode with active fouling removal functionality CHERRY, EUNCHA P — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 17, 2024
18716457 Manufacturing method of a system in package having several layers and associated manufacturing installation NGUYEN, DAO H — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 13, 2024
18716705 METHOD FOR ASSISTING WITH GUIDING A SURFACE VESSEL FOR TOWING AN UNDERWATER DEVICE BY MEANS OF A CABLE BREWER, JACK ROBERT 3663 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 05, 2024
18662884 COLD-ATOM SENSOR WITH IMPROVED NOISE MERCADO, ALEXANDER A 2855 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 13, 2024
18705661 METHOD TO ESTABLISH A SECURE CHANNEL RONI, SYED A 2432 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 29, 2024
18693938 IRIS DIAPHRAGM HAVING A PREDETERMINED SHAPE, WITHOUT SHAPE ROTATION DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER 2872 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 20, 2024
18688780 Method for estimating an environmental footprint of a flight of an aircraft and associated electronic estimating system SENSENIG, SHAUN D 3629 §101§103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Mar 03, 2024
18293700 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING THE BEHAVIOR OF AN ARTIFICIAL OPERATOR INTERACTING WITH A COMPLEX SYSTEM UDDIN, MD I — §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 30, 2024
18572722 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF AN OPERATOR INTERACTING WITH A COMPLEX SYSTEM RUIZ, ANGELICA — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 17, 2024
18578668 METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING AND AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLING A SPEED PROFILE COMPRISING AT OR AT OR ABOVE SPEED RESTRICTIONS COOLEY, CHASE LITTLEJOHN 3662 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 11, 2024
18544718 Method for determining detecting thresholds of a constant false alarm rate device of a sensor and associated devices and method LE, JOHN H 2857 §101§102§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 19, 2023
18542715 Onboard edge computation device, associated electronic system and method for executing software applications SWIFT, CHARLES M 2196 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 17, 2023
18530181 Antenna system and associated decoupling device SINGH, GURBIR 2845 §103§112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 05, 2023
18527324 METHOD FOR REMOTELY CONTROLLING THE FLIGHT OF AN AIRCRAFT, AND ASSOCIATED COMMUNICATION MODULE KHUU, IRENE C 3664 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending Dec 03, 2023
18523766 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THE OPERATION OF A TRAVELLING WAVE TUBE AMPLIFIER RAHMAN, HAFIZUR 2843 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 29, 2023
18522127 METHOD FOR ALLOCATING TIME-FREQUENCY RESOURCES IN A SATELLITE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM USING BEAMFORMING, AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM MANOHARAN, MUTHUSWAMY GANAPATHY 2647 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Nov 28, 2023
18515168 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO 3663 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Nov 20, 2023
18388171 UNMANNED AIRCRAFT COMPRISING TWO RADARS MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA 3648 §102§103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Nov 08, 2023
18470418 Method for automatically generating a decision making assistance algorithm; computer program product and associated computer device YESILDAG, MEHMET 3624 §101§102 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 20, 2023
18276032 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING SKILLS SAINT-VIL, EDDY 3715 §101 Final Rejection 14d Pending Aug 06, 2023
18260986 Electronic device for storing a terrain database, method for generating such a database, related avionics system, monitoring method and computer programs KAZIMI, MAHMOUD M 3665 §101 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jul 11, 2023
18269924 METHOD FOR DETERMINING, USING AN OPTRONIC SYSTEM, POSITIONS IN A SCENE, AND ASSOCIATED OPTRONIC SYSTEM HODAC, ERIC KHOI 3648 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 27, 2023
18267073 METHOD FOR MONITORING AND CONSOLIDATING A SATELLITE NAVIGATION SOLUTION GUYAH, REMASH RAJA 3648 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jun 13, 2023
18196570 HEAD-MOUNTED OR HELMET-MOUNTED DISPLAY MODULE DEAN, RAY ALEXANDER 2872 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 12, 2023
18183938 Data labelling method for building a database for configuring, validating and/or testing an application for monitoring an individual's fatigue level CHRISTIANSON, SKYLAR LINDSEY 3792 §101§112 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Mar 14, 2023
18042349 Integrated audio acquisition and playback module in electronic component form CHIN, VIVIAN C 2695 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Feb 21, 2023
18107721 DETECTION METHOD OF DECOYING OF A TRAFFIC ALERT AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM, AND ASSOCIATED TRAFFIC ALERT AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM PIATESKI, ERIN M 3669 §101 Final Rejection 5d overdue Pending Feb 09, 2023
18004446 METHOD FOR SHARING DATA RELATING TO THE MANUFACTURING OF A PRODUCT WHITAKER, ANDREW B 3629 §101§103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Jan 05, 2023
18076331 TTC ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT FOR A FLAT SATELLITE IMMANUEL, BAMIDELE ADEFOLARIN 2845 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 06, 2022
17927683 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSISTING WITH THE APPROACH OF AN AIRCRAFT WITH A VIEW TO LANDING MACIOROWSKI, GODFREY ALEKSANDER 3667 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 23, 2022
17782266 ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS RHEE, ROY B 3664 §103§112 Final Rejection 26d Pending Jun 03, 2022
17769153 DEVICE FOR REGROWTH OF A THICK STRUCTURE, PHOTONIC DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF FABRICATION NELSON, HUNTER JARED 2828 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 14, 2022
17285436 COCKPIT VIBRATION SYSTEM FOR SIMULATOR KLAYMAN, AMIR ARIE 3711 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 14, 2021
19132837 POOR ANTENNA POSITIONING DETECTION WALSH, DANIEL I 2876 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending May 26, 2025
19115264 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CAPTURING A NUMERICAL CODE ENGLISH, ALECIA DIANE 2625 §103§112 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Mar 26, 2025
19113036 DATA CARRIER WITH INDEPENDENT LIGHT SOURCE AND METHOD OF PRODUCING IT GUDORF, LAURA A 2876 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 14d Pending Mar 19, 2025
19107062 SYSTEM FOR LIVENESS DETERMINATION USING SEVERAL MODELS STREGE, JOHN B — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 27, 2025
18878931 A METHOD FOR INFORMING A MOBILE NETWORK OPERATOR SERVER WHICH PROFILE OF A PROFILE-TYPE SHOULD BE DOWNLOADED FROM A SM-DP+ TO A SECURE ELEMENT GHULAMALI, QUTBUDDIN — §101§102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 26, 2024
18877281 A METHOD FOR SENDING DATA TO A USER EQUIPMENT COOPERATING WITH A SECURE ELEMENT AND CORRESPONDING SERVER WEBB, MARGARET G — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18860051 SECURITY ELEMENT WITH COLORSHIFT LEWIS, JUSTIN V 3637 §102§103§112 Final Rejection 11d overdue Pending Oct 25, 2024
18848246 LAWFUL INTERCEPTION OF ACTIVITY OF AN APPLICATION FUNCTION RONI, SYED A 2432 §103 Final Rejection 6d Pending Sep 18, 2024
18691565 DATA CARRIER WITH SECURED SURFACE PERSONALIZATION ELEMENT GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT 3637 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 13, 2024
18294678 METHOD FOR SECURELY PULLING A SIGNED CONTAINER IMAGE LONG, EDWARD X 2439 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Feb 02, 2024
18039614 SYSTEM ON CHIP WITH VOLTAGE GLITCH DETECTION BASED ON CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION MONITORING NIPA, WASIKA 2433 §103 Final Rejection — Pending May 31, 2023
17783098 LASER ENGRAVABLE FLOATING IMAGE FOR SECURITY LAMINATES GRABOWSKI, KYLE ROBERT 3637 §102§103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Jun 07, 2022
17418491 A METHOD FOR CONNECTING A SECURE ELEMENT TO A NETWORK OF A MOBILE NETWORK OPERATOR AND CORRESPONDING SECURE ELEMENT THIER, MICHAEL 2400 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 25, 2021
19113035 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ADAPTIVE LICENSING BASED UPON LICENSED APPLICATION USAGE INFORMATION KIM, STEVEN S 3698 §101§102§103§112 Final Rejection 23d Pending Mar 19, 2025
18686533 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A DISK DEVICE CONNECTED TO AN EXECUTION PLATFORM AND EXECUTION PLATFORM FOR CONTROLLING AN ACCESS TO A DISK DEVICE VERDERAMO III, RALPH A 2139 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 26, 2024
19069857 AIRCRAFT INFLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT SERVER PROVIDING LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF ANNOUNCEMENTS ABEBE, DANIEL DEMELASH 2657 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 04, 2025
19051830 INFLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM PROVIDING INFORMATION TO CREW THROUGH AUGMENTED REALITY HEADSETS FLYNN, RANDY A 2424 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 12, 2025

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