Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Truist Bank

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems

76 pending office actions • 44 art units • 67 examiners • 0 of 76 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 201 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Truist Bank has 78 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The portfolio spans 69 distinct examiners and 45 distinct art units, indicating broad distribution across examination personnel with recurring activity in some technical groups.

PARSONS, THEODORE C is the busiest examiner, with 3 pending matters. That assignment is a useful focal point for examiner-specific review, but it does not define the wider prosecution profile.

The examiner count exceeds the art-unit count, so some groups contain matters assigned to multiple examiners. Counsel should track recurring issues by art unit while separately examining examiner treatment of claim scope, prior art, and procedural responses.

Centralized portfolio controls can support consistent disclosures and deadline management. Individual strategies remain necessary because the available data reflects both repeated technical settings and substantial examiner dispersion.

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

Portfolio Summary

76
Total Pending OAs
29
Non-Final OAs
36
Final Rejections
11
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
4
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. 16 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (4)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.

47
Hard (62%)
25
Medium (33%)
4
Easy (5%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only14 (18%)
§101 + other24 (32%)
§103 only22 (29%)
§102 only2 (3%)
§112 only1 (1%)
Double-patenting only3 (4%)
Double-patenting + other1 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)9 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
31
Information Tech
41% of docket
2
Communications
3% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
42
Mechanical / Eng
55% of docket
1
Business / Other
1% 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.

760 h
Manual time on pending OAs
152 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
266 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
6.7 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PARSONS, THEODORE C 3 78.6% +21.1%
RAHIM, MONJUR 2 84.6% +16.2%
RANKINS, WILLIAM E 2 57.6% +8.3%
REPSHER III, JOHN T 2 58.7% +47.9%
JUNG, HENRY H 2 22.8% +27.2%
XIAO, ZESHENG 2 43.4% +32.2%
BUI, TOAN D. 2 55.6% +42.4%
PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 2 15.2% +12.9%
HOANG, HAU HAI 1 78.4% +13.4%
PHAM, KHANH B 1 72.4% +15.5%

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
19297480 TRAINING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING TO ELIMINATE FALSE POSITIVES RAHIM, MONJUR —
19254782 ACCESS LAYER SYSTEMS OF PEER DATA PROCESSING NODES PROVIDING A SECURITY FRAMEWORK AND TRUST CONTROLS RAHIM, MONJUR —

Hard Cases (48)

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
18156172 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC SYSTEM SELECTION PRESTON, JOHN O 43d overdue
18053924 AUTHENTICATION DATA AGGREGATION SHAUGHNESSY, AIDAN EDWARD 9d overdue
18779867 MANAGING CHANGES WITHIN DATABASE FILE ENVIRONMENTS JUNG, HENRY H 8d overdue
18646122 SHORT RANGE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGY FOR INTER-DEVICE COMMUNICATION ALLADIN, AMBREEN A 4d overdue
18305665 VISUALLY-UNDETECTABLE FONT COLOR TRACKING SYSTEMS FOR PHYSICALLY PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTING PRINT DOCUMENTATION GODBOLD, DAVID GARRISON 3d overdue
18817458 MAINTAINING QUALITY COMMUNICATION FOR INTEGRATED CHANNELS IN TRANSACTION SYSTEMS BARKER, TODD L 21d
18437124 MOBILE DEPOSIT OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS USING QR CODE BUI, TOAN D. 21d
18330814 DATA RETRIEVAL THRESHOLDS FOR TRANSACTION ANALYSIS VYAS, ABHISHEK 22d

Interview Candidates (17)

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
18779867 MANAGING CHANGES WITHIN DATABASE FILE ENVIRONMENTS JUNG, HENRY H 8d overdue
18437124 MOBILE DEPOSIT OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS USING QR CODE BUI, TOAN D. 21d
18634195 AUTHORIZATION LAYER FOR CONTROLLING RESOURCE TRANSFERS XIAO, ZESHENG 34d
18170645 NETWORK-BASED CRYPTOGRAPHIC BLOCKCHAIN FRAMEWORK FOR TRUST CONTROL OF CERTIFIED MASTER DATA MANAGEMENT BUI, TOAN D. 55d
18193602 CHAT PLATFORM HAVING LANGUAGE DETECTION AND CHAT ROUTING BASED ON DETECTED LANGUAGE PRATT, EHRIN LARMONT 75d
19345827 SELF-HEALING SERVER FILE SYSTEM WITH SPACE CLEANUP HOANG, HAU HAI —
19307198 DATABASE AND DATA STRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS PHAM, KHANH B —
19297480 TRAINING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING TO ELIMINATE FALSE POSITIVES RAHIM, MONJUR —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3694 6
3693 5
3692 5
2499 3
2494 3
3695 3
3691 3
3698 3
2166 2
3627 2

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19345827 SELF-HEALING SERVER FILE SYSTEM WITH SPACE CLEANUP HOANG, HAU HAI 2154 §101§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 30, 2025
19307198 DATABASE AND DATA STRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS PHAM, KHANH B 2166 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 22, 2025
19297480 TRAINING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING TO ELIMINATE FALSE POSITIVES RAHIM, MONJUR — §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 12, 2025
19285415 ZONE-BASED DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA GOVERNANCE SYED, FARHAN M 2161 §102Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 30, 2025
19279138 DATA PRIVACY ARCHITECTURE, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS HOLLISTER, JAMES ROSS 2499 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 24, 2025
19260539 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONNECTION SWITCH AUTOMATION BUTLER, SARAI E 2114 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 06, 2025
19254770 CUSTOMIZED GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE GENERATION GRAPHICALLY DEPICTING ICONS VIA A COMPUTER SCREEN HARPER, ELIYAH STONE 2166 §103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 30, 2025
19254782 ACCESS LAYER SYSTEMS OF PEER DATA PROCESSING NODES PROVIDING A SECURITY FRAMEWORK AND TRUST CONTROLS RAHIM, MONJUR 2436 §103DP Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 30, 2025
19218919 DATA PRIVACY ARCHITECTURE, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS AHSAN, SYED M 2491 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 27, 2025
19194449 VIRTUAL IDENTIFICATION FOR GRANTING SECURE ACCESS USING TWO FORMS OF AUTHENTICATION PENDLETON, DIONNE 2689 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 30, 2025
19184345 TRANSLATING PROTOCOLS FOR WIRE REQUESTS IN A COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT YONO, RAVEN E 3694 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 21, 2025
19182469 NETWORK ARCHITECTURE PROVISIONING USING BUILD SHEETS CRAWLEY, TALIA F 3627 §101DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 17, 2025
19180376 CONSTRAINED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ASSISTANT FOR SPECIFIC DATABASE RECORD GENERATION AND MANAGEMENT ROBINSON, AKIBA KANELLE 3626 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 16, 2025
19064112 DETECTION OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN APPLICATIONS PARSONS, THEODORE C 2494 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 26, 2025
19057331 ROUTING DATA UPON A PROXIMITY CONDITION CHEN, CAI Y 2425 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 19, 2025
19050218 ALGORITHM TO IDENTIFY UNRESOLVED REPORTING ISSUES LUDWIG, PETER L 3627 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 11, 2025
19036424 CONTEXTUAL RECOMMENDATIONS WITH GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS BASED ON ACTIVITY RECOGNITION BAGGOT, BREFFNI 3621 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 24, 2025
19021644 SECURE INTEGRATION OF REAL-TIME STATUS INFORMATION IN APPLICATIONS MAHMOUDI, RODMAN ALEXANDER 2499 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 15, 2025
19020419 DIGITAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT HAVING CHAT SUPPORT PLATFORM WITH MULTIPLE VIRTUAL CHAT COMMUNICATION SESSIONS CONDUCTED IN PARALLEL WON, MICHAEL YOUNG 2443 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 14, 2025
19016645 IN-LINE VERIFICATION OF TRANSACTIONS RANKINS, WILLIAM E 3694 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 10, 2025
19013598 CHAT SUPPORT PLATFORM FOR IDENTIFICATION AND AUTOMATION OF RECURRING FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS ON USER COMMAND PROIOS, GEORGE N 3694 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 08, 2025
19014019 ENVIRONMENT STABILITY ASSESSMENT SYSTEM HATCHER, DEIRDRE D 3625 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 08, 2025
19008499 DATA PRIVACY ARCHITECTURE, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS PARSONS, THEODORE C 2494 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 02, 2025
18923995 ENCRYPTED DATA SECURITY SYSTEMS PROVIDING DIGITAL SIGNATURE VERIFICATION PROTECTING NETWORK-BASED ASYMMETRIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHIC BLOCKCHAIN DISTRIBUTED SECURITY FRAMEWORK FOR PROTECTIVE TRUST CONTROL AND VALIDATION OF NODE-BASED CORE OPERATIONS AND TRUST DATA ASSET MANAGEMENT FOR AUTHENTICATION ZOUBAIR, NOURA 2434 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 23, 2024
18924019 SECURE DATA SECURITY SYSTEMS USING A CRYPTOGRAPHIC BLOCKCHAIN COMPUTING PLATFORM FACILITATING ENCRYPTED NODE-BASED CORE OPERATIONS AND TRUST DATA ASSET MANAGEMENT INCORPORATING TRUST CONTROLS FOR DATA INTEGRITY PRESERVATION KUO, CHENYUH 3697 §101§102§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 23, 2024
18920033 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING COMMON USER INTERFACE ACCESS TO DATA FROM SEPARATE SYSTEMS POINVIL, FRANTZY 3693 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 18, 2024
18918628 INTERFACE FOR CONSOLIDATED OPERATION OF REMOTE CONNECTIONS REPSHER III, JOHN T 2143 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 17, 2024
18918651 INTERFACE FOR CONSOLIDATED OPERATION OF REMOTE CONNECTIONS REPSHER III, JOHN T 2143 §102§103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 17, 2024
18908009 DATA TRANSMISSION INITIATION SYSTEMS SIGNALING NETWORK ROUTING DELICH, STEPHANIE ZAGARELLA 3623 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 07, 2024
18899085 ASSIGNING AUTOMATICALLY TAILORED USER EXPERIENCE IN GUI TRAN, TAM T 2174 DP Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2024
18900486 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING COMMON USER INTERFACE ACCESS TO DATA FROM SEPARATE SYSTEMS SCHWARZENBERG, PAUL 3694 §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 27, 2024
18887566 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING USER REQUESTED MODIFICATIONS TO DATA FOR DATATYPE AND FILE MANAGEMENT MAI, KEVIN S 2499 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 17, 2024
18884725 ENCODING SYSTEM FACILITATING PROTECTION OF DATA FROM MALICIOUS ACCESS BY SECURITY, ACCESS CONTROL, AND AUTHENTICATION OUSSIR, EL MEHDI 2409 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 13, 2024
18822139 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A TASK PROCESSING DASHBOARD IQBAL, MUSTAFA 3625 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 31, 2024
18817458 MAINTAINING QUALITY COMMUNICATION FOR INTEGRATED CHANNELS IN TRANSACTION SYSTEMS BARKER, TODD L 2449 §102§103Other Non-Final OA 21d Pending Aug 28, 2024
18809550 FORTIFIED SECURE MOBILE BIOMETRIC AUTHORIZATION SYSTEMS FOR INFORMATION SECURITY LITTLE, VANCE M 2494 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 20, 2024
18779867 MANAGING CHANGES WITHIN DATABASE FILE ENVIRONMENTS JUNG, HENRY H 3695 §101§103 Non-Final OA 8d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2024
18772860 CREATING AND MANAGING A DATA BASE OF TEMPORARY FILES WITHIN DATA BASE FILE ENVIRONMENTS RANKINS, WILLIAM E 3694 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 15, 2024
18646122 SHORT RANGE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGY FOR INTER-DEVICE COMMUNICATION ALLADIN, AMBREEN A 3691 §103§112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2024
18636338 ANALYZING A UNIT FOR UPGRADED ACCESS HUDSON, MARLA LAVETTE 3694 §101§112 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 16, 2024
18633621 AUTHORIZATION LAYER FOR CONTROLLING RESOURCE TRANSFERS XIAO, ZESHENG 3698 §101§103Other Final Rejection — Pending Apr 12, 2024
18633648 CONTROLLING RESOURCE TRANSFERS BASED ON RESOURCE SYSTEM WORKLOADS AND COMPLIANCE STANDARDS CHAKRAVARTI, ARUNAVA 3692 §101 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Apr 12, 2024
18634195 AUTHORIZATION LAYER FOR CONTROLLING RESOURCE TRANSFERS XIAO, ZESHENG 3698 §101§103§112Other Final Rejection 34d Pending Apr 12, 2024
18631130 CRYPTOGRAPHY AND SECURITY ROUND UP JAMES, GREGORY MARK 3692 §101 Final Rejection — Pending Apr 10, 2024
18611294 SYSTEM AUTOMATED HIGH RISK IN MESSAGING MALHOTRA, SANJEEV 3691 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 20, 2024
18609577 ACCESSING NON-COLLOCATED DATA CORRESPONDING TO A DETECTED MOBILE APPARATUS FELTEN, DANIEL S 3692 §102 Non-Final OA 19d Pending Mar 19, 2024
18585291 RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS OF DATA STRUCTURES FACILITATING FILE MANAGEMENT AND DATA RETRIEVAL APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ 3693 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 23, 2024
18437124 MOBILE DEPOSIT OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS USING QR CODE BUI, TOAN D. 3693 §101§103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Feb 08, 2024
18401779 SIGNALING UPON CONTACT TRAJECTORY HAVING LIKELIHOOD FOR INTERSECTION BY USE OF A DIVERSION VEHICLE BYRD, UCHE SOWANDE 3624 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 02, 2024
18536422 DATABASE AND DATA STRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS FACILITATING DATA DRIFT DETECTION BOWEN, RICHARD L 2165 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Dec 12, 2023

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many pending USPTO office actions does Truist Bank have?

Truist Bank has 76 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 44 art units and 67 examiners.

Which USPTO examiner handles the most Truist Bank applications?

Theodore C Parsons has the most, with 3 of Truist Bank's pending office actions.

What technology area are Truist Bank's patent applications in?

Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.

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