Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
13 pending office actions • 11 art units • 13 examiners • 0 of 13 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 64 patents granted in the last 365 days
U.S. Bancorp has 15 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 15 distinct examiners across 13 distinct art units, indicating individual examiner assignments with some art-unit overlap.
ZHANG, DUAN is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. No examiner carries more than that listed figure, so the practical focus is consistent matter-level review and coordination across the separate examination channels.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 | 2 (15%) |
| §101 + other | 8 (62%) |
| §103 only | 2 (15%) |
| §102 only | 1 (8%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZHANG, DUAN | 1 | 61.2% | +18.9% |
| DURAN, ARTHUR D | 1 | 16.2% | +24.3% |
| EDMONDS, DONALD J | 1 | 39.5% | +35.3% |
| SPOONER, LAMONT M | 1 | 73.7% | +11.9% |
| SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z | 1 | 52.4% | +31.4% |
| NGUYEN, TIEN C | 1 | 68.1% | +19.0% |
| SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | 1 | 68.5% | +33.1% |
| HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | 1 | 64.0% | +52.8% |
| BROPHY, MATTHEW J | 1 | 68.5% | +34.3% |
| MACKES, KRIS E | 1 | 76.2% | +10.8% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18799689 | PROFILE BASED ARRANGEMENTS AND METHODS FOR DISPARATE NETWORK SYSTEMS | HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | 4d overdue |
| 18428783 | AMBIENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM | VIG, NARESH | 16d |
| 19635665 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING A NODAL DATA STRUCTURE FOR FRAUD DETECTION RING | ZHANG, DUAN | — |
| 19556040 | CIRCUIT-BASED TRANSACTION WITH SECURE-ACCESS PROCESSING | DURAN, ARTHUR D | — |
| 19361282 | IMPROVING CONTENT EDITING SOFTWARE VIA AUTOMATIC AND AUDITABLE AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION | EDMONDS, DONALD J | — |
| 19281126 | AUTONOMOUS TRACKING OF DISPARATE ASSETS | SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z | — |
| 19267178 | MOBILE CHECK DEPOSIT | NGUYEN, TIEN C | — |
| 18909206 | AUTOMATED PIPELINE FOR TRAINING LANGUAGE MODELS | SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18799689 | PROFILE BASED ARRANGEMENTS AND METHODS FOR DISPARATE NETWORK SYSTEMS | HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | 4d overdue |
| 19635665 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING A NODAL DATA STRUCTURE FOR FRAUD DETECTION RING | ZHANG, DUAN | — |
| 19556040 | CIRCUIT-BASED TRANSACTION WITH SECURE-ACCESS PROCESSING | DURAN, ARTHUR D | — |
| 19361282 | IMPROVING CONTENT EDITING SOFTWARE VIA AUTOMATIC AND AUDITABLE AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION | EDMONDS, DONALD J | — |
| 19349868 | REMEDIATING HALLUCINATIONS IN LANGUAGE MODELS | SPOONER, LAMONT M | — |
| 19281126 | AUTONOMOUS TRACKING OF DISPARATE ASSETS | SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z | — |
| 19267178 | MOBILE CHECK DEPOSIT | NGUYEN, TIEN C | — |
| 18909206 | AUTOMATED PIPELINE FOR TRAINING LANGUAGE MODELS | SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3622 | 2 |
| 3694 | 2 |
| 3699 | 1 |
| 3629 | 1 |
| 2657 | 1 |
| 2659 | 1 |
| 3695 | 1 |
| 2191 | 1 |
| 2153 | 1 |
| 3625 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19635665 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING A NODAL DATA STRUCTURE FOR FRAUD DETECTION RING | ZHANG, DUAN | 3699 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 31, 2026 |
| 19556040 | CIRCUIT-BASED TRANSACTION WITH SECURE-ACCESS PROCESSING | DURAN, ARTHUR D | 3622 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2026 |
| 19361282 | IMPROVING CONTENT EDITING SOFTWARE VIA AUTOMATIC AND AUDITABLE AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION | EDMONDS, DONALD J | 3629 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2025 |
| 19349868 | REMEDIATING HALLUCINATIONS IN LANGUAGE MODELS | SPOONER, LAMONT M | 2657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2025 |
| 19281126 | AUTONOMOUS TRACKING OF DISPARATE ASSETS | SHAIKH, MOHAMMAD Z | 3694 | §101§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 25, 2025 |
| 19267178 | MOBILE CHECK DEPOSIT | NGUYEN, TIEN C | 3694 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 11, 2025 |
| 18909206 | AUTOMATED PIPELINE FOR TRAINING LANGUAGE MODELS | SCHMIEDER, NICOLE A K | 2659 | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 08, 2024 |
| 18799689 | PROFILE BASED ARRANGEMENTS AND METHODS FOR DISPARATE NETWORK SYSTEMS | HAMILTON, SARA CHANDLER | 3695 | §101§112Other | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Aug 09, 2024 |
| 18793460 | SMART CONTRACT CREATION AND MANAGEMENT USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH MODEL MERGING | BROPHY, MATTHEW J | 2191 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 02, 2024 |
| 18733264 | CONTEXTUALLY AUGMENTED TRANSFORMER NEURAL NETWORK | MACKES, KRIS E | 2153 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2024 |
| 18632950 | GENERATING INTERACTION SEQUENCE DISRUPTION PREDICTIONS | HENRY, MATTHEW D | 3625 | §101 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 11, 2024 |
| 18428783 | AMBIENT TRANSACTION SYSTEM | VIG, NARESH | 3622 | §101§103Other | Final Rejection | 16d | Pending | Jan 31, 2024 |
| 18298037 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING POINTS OF COMPROMISE | TURK, BROCK E | 3692 | §101§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialU.S. Bancorp has 13 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 11 art units and 13 examiners.
Duan Zhang has the most, with 1 of U.S. Bancorp's pending office actions.
Mostly Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems (USPTO Tech Center 3600), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
