Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
42 pending office actions • 26 art units • 40 examiners • 0 of 42 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 111 patents granted in the last 365 days
TORC Robotics Inc. has 39 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The docket spans 37 examiners and 26 art units, showing extensive distribution across both examiner and technical assignments. The near alignment between pending matters and examiners indicates that repeated examiner relationships are limited.
GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN is the busiest examiner, with 2 pending matters. Counsel should coordinate portfolio terminology and strategic objectives, but prepare responses with close attention to the individual art-unit and examiner context. The breadth of assignments makes structured issue tracking useful for identifying recurring transportation-related claim questions without assuming uniform examination treatment.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 11 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. 11 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 only | 1 (2%) |
| §101 + other | 1 (2%) |
| §103 only | 27 (64%) |
| §102 only | 2 (5%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 1 (2%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (24%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN | 2 | 72.5% | +12.1% |
| EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O | 2 | 74.8% | +4.4% |
| AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 1 | 13.3% | +10.0% |
| LEE, BRANDON DONGPA | 1 | 77.5% | +23.7% |
| CHEN, CHIA WEI A | 1 | 77.2% | +19.3% |
| PENDLETON, DIONNE | 1 | 69.8% | +15.6% |
| BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW | 1 | 84.1% | +11.2% |
| RHEE, ROY B | 1 | 70.3% | +21.7% |
| LAU, HOI CHING | 1 | 74.6% | +15.7% |
| CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 1 | 58.1% | +22.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19004916 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING COMPONENT LIFETIME | BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18806505 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TO AVOID COLLISONS | ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | 21d |
| 19234937 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DETERMINING CHANGES IN POSE OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN | — |
| 19094375 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEHAVIOR ADAPTATION OF AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEMS BASED ON DRIVING STYLES OF SURROUNDING ROAD ACTORS | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | — |
| 19085483 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE LEAK DETECTION | LEE, BRANDON DONGPA | — |
| 19004848 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVE FATIGUE ACCUMULATION MODEL | RHEE, ROY B | — |
| 18981334 | MESSAGE AND WARNING DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE | LAU, HOI CHING | — |
| 18948013 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAILER DIMENSION ESTIMATION | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | — |
| 18902283 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR 3D OBJECT DETECTION BY AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE IN ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS USING MULTIMODAL FUSION | SIMPSON, LIXI CHOW | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19234911 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DETERMINING CHANGES IN POSE OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN | — |
| 19234937 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DETERMINING CHANGES IN POSE OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN | — |
| 19094375 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEHAVIOR ADAPTATION OF AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEMS BASED ON DRIVING STYLES OF SURROUNDING ROAD ACTORS | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | — |
| 19085483 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE LEAK DETECTION | LEE, BRANDON DONGPA | — |
| 19042947 | GATED CAMERA AND GATE-BASED FOCUS ADAPTION | CHEN, CHIA WEI A | — |
| 19039451 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC SIGNAL SYSTEMS | PENDLETON, DIONNE | — |
| 19004916 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING COMPONENT LIFETIME | BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW | — |
| 19004848 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVE FATIGUE ACCUMULATION MODEL | RHEE, ROY B | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3665 | 8 |
| 3662 | 3 |
| 3658 | 3 |
| 2689 | 2 |
| 3667 | 2 |
| 3664 | 2 |
| 3661 | 2 |
| 3752 | 2 |
| 2637 | 1 |
| 3668 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19234911 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DETERMINING CHANGES IN POSE OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19234937 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DETERMINING CHANGES IN POSE OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | GORDON, MATHEW FRANKLIN | 3665 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 11, 2025 |
| 19094375 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEHAVIOR ADAPTATION OF AUTOMATED DRIVING SYSTEMS BASED ON DRIVING STYLES OF SURROUNDING ROAD ACTORS | AWORUNSE, OLUWABUSAYO ADEBANJO | 3662 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 28, 2025 |
| 19085483 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE LEAK DETECTION | LEE, BRANDON DONGPA | 3662 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2025 |
| 19042947 | GATED CAMERA AND GATE-BASED FOCUS ADAPTION | CHEN, CHIA WEI A | 2637 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 31, 2025 |
| 19039451 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC SIGNAL SYSTEMS | PENDLETON, DIONNE | 2689 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 19004916 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING COMPONENT LIFETIME | BERNS, MICHAEL ANDREW | 3667 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19004848 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTIVE FATIGUE ACCUMULATION MODEL | RHEE, ROY B | 3664 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18981334 | MESSAGE AND WARNING DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE | LAU, HOI CHING | 2689 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 13, 2024 |
| 18978367 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE ALERTING | CARDIMINO, CHRISTOPHER RYAN | 3661 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 12, 2024 |
| 18948013 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAILER DIMENSION ESTIMATION | VON VOLKENBURG, KEITH ALLEN | 3665 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18944918 | SENSOR COMPARTMENT FOR LEAK DETECTION FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | SCHNEIDER, PAULA LYNN | 3668 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18945261 | VEHICLE WITH A GATED CAMERA AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A VEHICLE UTILIZING A GATED CAMERA | RATCLIFFE, LUKE D | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 12, 2024 |
| 18930654 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SIGN DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION IN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | LEIBY, CHRISTOPHER E | 2621 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 29, 2024 |
| 18927596 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A THREAT ASSESSMENT OF A DRIVER | TESSEMA, BESUFEKAD LEMMA | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 25, 2024 |
| 18902283 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR 3D OBJECT DETECTION BY AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE IN ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS USING MULTIMODAL FUSION | SIMPSON, LIXI CHOW | 2625 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 30, 2024 |
| 18899398 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | ANWARI, MACEEH | 3663 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18806505 | METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE TO AVOID COLLISONS | ARTIMEZ, DANA FERREN | 3667 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Aug 15, 2024 |
| 18775525 | TRANSFER STATIONS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFERRING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SENSOR DATA TO A REMOTE DATA STORAGE SERVER | WEHOVZ, OSCAR | 2161 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 17, 2024 |
| 18759414 | REPOSITIONABLE SENSOR SYSTEMS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AND METHODS OF REPOSITIONING A SENSOR PACKAGE | EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 70d | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18743546 | MODELING TRANSIENT SCENE RESPONSE USING A LIDAR WAVEFRONT SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT | ADE, OGER GARCIA | 3627 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18743628 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BALANCED MULTI-OBJECTIVE BLACK-BOX OPTIMIZATION (MOO) OF LiDAR SENSOR HYPERPARAMETERS | ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K | 2857 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 14, 2024 |
| 18733249 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOLING VEHICLE AUTONOMY COMPUTING SYSTEM | RUBY, TRAVIS C | 2835 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18731197 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COOLING OPERATING PLATFORMS OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 33d | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18680907 | POWER NETWORK SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING COMPONENT ERROR | NGUYEN, TAN QUANG | 3661 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18669169 | POSITIONABLE HOSES | BURGOS-GUNTIN, NELSON R | 2831 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 20, 2024 |
| 18666507 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING DRIVABLE LANE CORRIDORS | STIEBRITZ, NOAH WILLIAM | 3658 | §103 | Final Rejection | 32d overdue | Pending | May 16, 2024 |
| 18631784 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PROVIDING DRIVER-SPECIFIC INFORMATION TO DRIVERS | COCHRAN, BRIANNA RENAE | 2615 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18627159 | OBJECT DETECTION USING DENSE DEPTH AND LEARNED FUSION OF DATA OF CAMERA AND LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING SENSORS | PATEL, PINALBEN V | 2673 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 04, 2024 |
| 18410132 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE RESPONSES TO TRAILER FIRES | SHARMA, NABIN KUMAR | 3612 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 11, 2024 |
| 18408897 | DELIVERY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MIDDLE-MILE CARGO DELIVERY USING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES | IVEY, DANA DESHAWN | 3662 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18409617 | OPTICAL CAMERA BASED AND MACHINE LEARNING TRAINED FLAT TIRE DETECTION | MEHDIZADEH, NAVID Z | 3669 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2024 |
| 18398639 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND SUPPRESSING VEHICLE TRAILER FIRES | KIM, CHRISTOPHER S | 3752 | §103§112DP | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18399194 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING ANTI-RUTTING DRIVING PATTERNS | REDA, MATTHEW J | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 40d | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18398655 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND SUPPRESSING VEHICLE TRAILER FIRES | BOECKMANN, JASON J | 3752 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d overdue | Pending | Dec 28, 2023 |
| 18545110 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT DETECTION AND ANNOTATION | CRUZ, IRIANA | 2681 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18484210 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF REMOTE DYNAMIC VISUALIZATION OF SITUATIONS TO BE NAVIGATED BY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | WU, PAYSUN | 3665 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 58d overdue | Pending | Oct 10, 2023 |
| 18370829 | ASSOCIATING DETECTED OBJECTS AND TRAFFIC LANES USING COMPUTER VISION | LE, VU | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 22d | Pending | Sep 20, 2023 |
| 18302956 | POSITION DETERMINATION VIA ENCODED INDICATORS IN A PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT | HEFLIN, HARRISON JAMES RIEL | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 19, 2023 |
| 18302520 | ANIMAL COLLISION AWARE PLANNING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | HORNER, MINATO LEE | 3665 | §103 | Final Rejection | 18d overdue | Pending | Apr 18, 2023 |
| 18192522 | AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SIMULATOR | PIERRE LOUIS, ANDRE | 2187 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
| 18192504 | AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SIMULATOR | WANG, KAI NMN | 3664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 32d overdue | Pending | Mar 29, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialTORC Robotics Inc. has 42 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 26 art units and 40 examiners.
Mathew Franklin Gordon has the most, with 2 of TORC Robotics Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
