Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 16, 2026

Uif (university Industry Foundation), Yonsei University

46 pending office actions • 29 art units • 44 examiners • 0 of 46 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 52 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

46
Total Pending OAs
34
Non-Final OAs
12
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
1
Due this week
6
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. 12 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (6)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.

20
Hard (43%)
21
Medium (46%)
5
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (4%)
§101 + other12 (26%)
§103 only18 (39%)
§102 only2 (4%)
§112 only5 (11%)
Double-patenting + other1 (2%)
Multi-statute (no §101)6 (13%)

Industry Mix

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

7
Life Sciences
15% of docket
4
Information Tech
9% of docket
7
Communications
15% of docket
4
Semiconductors
9% of docket
7
Mechanical / Eng
15% of docket
17
Business / Other
37% 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.

460 h
Manual time on pending OAs
92 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
161 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
4.0 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
ALTVATER, NATALIE RAQUEL 3
GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA 1 73.4% +14.2%
MIDKIFF, AARON 1 50.2% +23.1%
NELSON, KERI JESSICA 1 58.4% +41.8%
YANG, HAN 1 92.1% +11.6%
NGUYEN, VIET Q 1 95.1% +3.5%
SHIN, SOO JUNG 1 87.1% +16.3%
LIN, JESSICA YIFANG 1 81.8% -3.3%
WELLS, HEATH E 1 78.4% +9.0%
CASCAIS, JUSTIN PHILIP 1 75.0% +13.7%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18986202 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY ADJUSTING REFRESH TIMING OF CIM BASED ON EDRAM YANG, HAN
18984708 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE CAPABLE OF SIMULTANEOUSLY CHANGING POLARITY AND MAGNITUDE OF ANOMALOUS HALL EFFECT SIGNAL ACCORDING TO INPUT CURRENT, OPERATING METHOD THEREOF, AND SYSTEM NGUYEN, VIET Q
18934175 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGES THROUGH PIXEL LEVEL CLASSIFICATION LIN, JESSICA YIFANG

Hard Cases (20)

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
18199012 USE OF THE SESTRIN2 FOR THE TREATMENT OF CONTRAST-INDUCED ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY BANERJEE, KOYELI 31d overdue
18803262 ULTRASOUND IMAGING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF KLEIN, BROOKE L 29d overdue
17521156 AUTOMATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGULAR EXPRESSION ENGINES USING GLUSHKOV AUTOMATA GENERATION AND HYBRID MATCHING KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY 5d
18536448 FLOW FIELD-FLOW FRACTIONATION DEVICE INCLUDING THICKNESS-TAPERED CHANNEL BLOCK MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W 16d
17674055 STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING VIRTUAL GRID TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI 21d
18763004 METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING FEEDBACK ON SURGICAL OUTCOME MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL 26d
19094659 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGE GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA
18934185 LOW-DOSE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DENOISING NEURAL NETWORK APPARATUS AND METHOD SHIN, SOO JUNG

Interview Candidates (6)

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 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19094659 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGE GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA
19062102 STRETCHABLE DISPLAY DEVICE MIDKIFF, AARON
19036299 Breast fixing brassiere for radiation therapy having a pair of breast covers with incision element NELSON, KERI JESSICA
18986202 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY ADJUSTING REFRESH TIMING OF CIM BASED ON EDRAM YANG, HAN
18934185 LOW-DOSE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DENOISING NEURAL NETWORK APPARATUS AND METHOD SHIN, SOO JUNG
18934160 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AI-BASED NLOS (NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT) IMAGING RECONSTRUCTION CASCAIS, JUSTIN PHILIP

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1658 2
2621 1
3786 1
2667 1
2668 1
2664 1
2674 1
2675 1
3715 1
3685 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19094659 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING IMAGE GOOD JOHNSON, MOTILEWA §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 28, 2025
19062102 STRETCHABLE DISPLAY DEVICE MIDKIFF, AARON 2621 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 25, 2025
19036299 Breast fixing brassiere for radiation therapy having a pair of breast covers with incision element NELSON, KERI JESSICA 3786 §112 Final Rejection Pending Jan 24, 2025
18986202 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVELY ADJUSTING REFRESH TIMING OF CIM BASED ON EDRAM YANG, HAN §112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 18, 2024
18984708 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE CAPABLE OF SIMULTANEOUSLY CHANGING POLARITY AND MAGNITUDE OF ANOMALOUS HALL EFFECT SIGNAL ACCORDING TO INPUT CURRENT, OPERATING METHOD THEREOF, AND SYSTEM NGUYEN, VIET Q §102 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 17, 2024
18934185 LOW-DOSE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DENOISING NEURAL NETWORK APPARATUS AND METHOD SHIN, SOO JUNG 2667 §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18934175 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGES THROUGH PIXEL LEVEL CLASSIFICATION LIN, JESSICA YIFANG 2668 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18934117 MULTIMODAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD BASED ON VISION-LANGUAGE MODEL WELLS, HEATH E 2664 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18934160 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AI-BASED NLOS (NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT) IMAGING RECONSTRUCTION CASCAIS, JUSTIN PHILIP 2674 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18934108 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OBJECT-CENTERED REPRESENTATION LEARNING THROUGH UNSUPERVISED SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION VAUGHN, ALEXANDER JOSEPH 2675 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18933613 PERSONALIZED QUESTION AND ANSWER APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON DUAL SEARCH AUGMENTED KNOWLEDGE FUSION SAINT-VIL, EDDY 3715 §101 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 31, 2024
18856380 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING RECURRENCE OF ATRIAL FIBRILLATION LAGOY, KYRA RAND 3685 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Oct 11, 2024
18884397 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRAINING MODEL FOR HUMAN IDENTIFICATION SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH §103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 13, 2024
18882268 PULSE SIGNAL GENERATOR TO REDUCE POWER CONSUMPTION OF SRAM AND SRAM HAVING THE SAME BRASWELL, DONALD H.B. 2825 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Sep 11, 2024
18809580 Solid-liquid Composite Electrolyte including Sulfide-based Solid Electrolyte and Liquid Electrolyte, and Semi-solid-state Rechargeable Batteries ALTVATER, NATALIE RAQUEL §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 20, 2024
18803262 ULTRASOUND IMAGING DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF KLEIN, BROOKE L 3797 §102§103 Final Rejection 29d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2024
18778015 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SPATIAL REUSE IN WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT CHEEMA, HASAN ALI 2465 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 19, 2024
18763004 METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR PROVIDING FEEDBACK ON SURGICAL OUTCOME MISIASZEK, AMBER ALTSCHUL 3682 §101 Final Rejection 26d Pending Jul 03, 2024
18747003 DESIGN AUTOMATION METHOD AND APPARATUS USING GENERATIVE NATURAL LANGUAGE MODEL MUELLER, PAUL JOSEPH 2657 §103 Final Rejection Pending Jun 18, 2024
18617846 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING EXECUTION PLANS OF MULTIPLE MIXED-PRECISION DEEP LEARNING MODELS BASED ON MULTI-PRECISION NPU ONAT, UMUT §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 27, 2024
18610995 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH NEURAL NETWORK MODEL TRAINING ASEGDEW, NATNAEL AREGA §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 20, 2024
18590219 GAS SENSOR, SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL GAS MICROSCOPE, AND METHOD OF PREPARING GAS SENSOR QIAN, SHIZHI 1795 §103 Final Rejection Pending Feb 28, 2024
18435422 NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME DAO, TUAN C. 4100 §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 07, 2024
18410669 MICROFLUIDIC CHIP AND LAMP GENE AMPLIFICATION METHOD MUI, CHRISTINE T §103 Final Rejection Pending Jan 11, 2024
18399450 TRAINING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MOLECULAR GENERATION MODEL MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 28, 2023
18396777 ELECTRODE FOR METAL BATTERY INCLUDING METAL STORAGE HOST AND METAL BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME SLIFKA, COLIN W §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 27, 2023
18392527 NEURAL NETWORK DEVICE HAVING STRUCTURE FOR HANDLING DIFFERENT OUTPUT COMBINATIONS AND OUTPUT HANDLING METHOD THEREOF HADDAD, MAJD MAHER §101§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 21, 2023
18539499 ANODE-SOLID ELECTROLYTE SUB-ASSEMBLY FOR ALL-SOLID SECONDARY BATTERY, ALL-SOLID SECONDARY BATTERY INCLUDING THE SAME, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF LEONARD, MICHELLE TURNER §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 14, 2023
18536448 FLOW FIELD-FLOW FRACTIONATION DEVICE INCLUDING THICKNESS-TAPERED CHANNEL BLOCK MEGNA FUENTES, ANTHONY W 2855 §102§103 Non-Final OA 16d Pending Dec 12, 2023
18530899 METAL-AQUEOUS BATTERY AND HYDROGEN GENERATION AND CARBON DIOXIDE STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING SAME ORDUNA, TAMARA §103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 06, 2023
18523235 Solid-Liquid Composite Electrolyte Including Sulfide-based Solid Electrolyte and High-kosmotropicity Salt-containing Liquid Electrolyte, and Semi-solid-state Rechargeable Batteries ALTVATER, NATALIE RAQUEL §102§103§112 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 29, 2023
18523013 Solid-Liquid Composite Electrolyte Including Sulfide-based Solid Electrolyte and High-concentration Liquid Electrolyte, and Semi-solid-state Rechargeable Batteries ALTVATER, NATALIE RAQUEL §103§112DP Non-Final OA Pending Nov 29, 2023
18517693 SECONDARY BATTERY SEPARATOR COMPRISING CELLULOSE COATING LAYER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME RESTO OQUENDO, NATHALY MARIE §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 22, 2023
18240838 SWITCHING ANTENNA FOR UWB COMMUNICATION FOR VEHICLE RIDDER, CLAYTON PAUL 3646 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 31, 2023
18011363 COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING, AMELIORATING, OR TREATING COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION DISEASE, COMPRISING PEPTIDE HAVING SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY CONTROL FUNCTION HA, JULIE 1654 §112 Non-Final OA 77d Pending Aug 17, 2023
18229807 FUEL ELECTRODE FOR SOLID OXIDE ELECTROLYSIS CELL WITH IMPROVED HIGH-TEMPERATURE ELECTROLYSIS EFFICIENCY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME SYLVESTER, KEVIN 1794 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Aug 03, 2023
18357144 RECONFIGURABLE AMBIPOLAR TRANSISTOR MARUF, SHEIKH 2897 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Jul 23, 2023
18339817 NOVEL CYCLIC PEPTIDES BASED ON NANOBIOSTRUCTURAL CONTROL, PEPTIDESOMES WITH CORE/SHELL STRUCTURE COMPRISING SAME, AND USES THEREOF REYNOLDS, FRED H 1658 §102 Final Rejection 60d Pending Jun 22, 2023
18199012 USE OF THE SESTRIN2 FOR THE TREATMENT OF CONTRAST-INDUCED ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY BANERJEE, KOYELI 1658 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending May 18, 2023
18130874 SELF-HEALABLE CHEMICAL DETECTING SENSOR EMBEDDING TRANSITION METAL-ADSORBED PAA-PVA-BORAX FIBER-GEL HAQ, SHAFIQUL 1678 §103 Final Rejection 29d Pending Apr 04, 2023
18110458 SRAM READ YIELD TRAINING METHOD, SRAM READ YIELD PREDICTION METHOD AND COMPUTING APPARATUS NGUYEN, NHA T 2851 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Feb 16, 2023
18164118 METHOD FOR PREPARING A DNA NETWORK WITH CONTROLLED CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND A METHOD FOR INJECTING DRUGS USING THE DNA NETWORK CHOWDHURY, IQBAL HOSSAIN 1656 §112 Non-Final OA 60d Pending Feb 03, 2023
17674055 STRESS INTENSITY FACTOR EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD USING VIRTUAL GRID TSENG, KYLE HWA-KAI 2189 §101§112 Final Rejection 21d Pending Feb 17, 2022
17564870 NEURAL ODE-BASED CONDITIONAL TABULAR GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORK APPARATUS AND METHOD CAMPOS, ALFREDO 2129 §101§112 Final Rejection Pending Dec 29, 2021
17521156 AUTOMATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGULAR EXPRESSION ENGINES USING GLUSHKOV AUTOMATA GENERATION AND HYBRID MATCHING KLOSTERMAN II, JEROME ANTHONY 2182 §101§103§112 Final Rejection 5d Pending Nov 08, 2021
17520130 BIOLOGICAL DATA ACQUISITION APPARATUS AND BIOLOGICAL DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS USING THE SAME AGAHI, PUYA 3791 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 05, 2021

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