Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
9 pending office actions • 9 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
United States Department of Energy has 8 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The matters involve 8 examiners and 8 art units, so the current docket is distributed across separate examination settings.
RAHMAN, MD M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending office action. The data shows no examiner concentration beyond one action, making individual file review the appropriate basis for response planning.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 5 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. 5 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 + other | 2 (22%) |
| §103 only | 2 (22%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 5 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAHMAN, MD M | 1 | 92.4% | +11.9% |
| BERGIN, JAMES S | 1 | 79.4% | +9.9% |
| DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T | 1 | 79.7% | +4.7% |
| MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 1 | 66.1% | +21.3% |
| KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 1 | 20.0% | +0.0% |
| RAHLL, JERRY T | 1 | 89.9% | +8.3% |
| PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1 | 47.5% | +41.3% |
| HINSON, RONALD | 1 | 73.9% | +14.1% |
| JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | 1 | 68.6% | +25.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19082732 | Simultaneous Ultrasonic Vibration and Gas Sensing based on a Tunable Fiber Ring Laser | RAHMAN, MD M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 7 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18545807 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PEAK-CLIPPING AND LOAD-SHIFTING ENERGY STORAGE DISPATCH CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR EVENT-BASED DEMAND RESPONSE | KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 16d overdue |
| 17729511 | Metal Oxides Enabled Fiber Optic pH Sensor for High temperature High pH Subsurface Environments | JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | 4d overdue |
| 18758144 | Piping Connection Seal and Leak Detection | DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T | 1d overdue |
| 18137793 | Perovskite Oxygen Carriers and Methods for Making and Using Perovskite Oxygen Carriers | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 9d |
| 18892790 | EXPLOSIVE BREACHING TOOL | BERGIN, JAMES S | — |
| 18617295 | Microwave-assisted Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (SOEC), Proton Conducting Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (H-SOEC), Reversible Proton Conducting Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (rH-SOEC) or Reversible Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (rSOEC) for Hydrogen Production | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | — |
| 18510819 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FABRICATING LOW-LOSS AND LOW-NOISE WAVEGUIDES FOR VISIBLE WAVELENGTH APPLICATIONS | RAHLL, JERRY T | — |
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 5 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17729511 | Metal Oxides Enabled Fiber Optic pH Sensor for High temperature High pH Subsurface Environments | JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | 4d overdue |
| 18137793 | Perovskite Oxygen Carriers and Methods for Making and Using Perovskite Oxygen Carriers | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 9d |
| 18097183 | HIGH FREQUENCY MEDIUM VOLTAGE TRANSFORMER WITH CENTRAL INSULATING DIVIDER | HINSON, RONALD | 15d |
| 19082732 | Simultaneous Ultrasonic Vibration and Gas Sensing based on a Tunable Fiber Ring Laser | RAHMAN, MD M | — |
| 18617295 | Microwave-assisted Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (SOEC), Proton Conducting Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (H-SOEC), Reversible Proton Conducting Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (rH-SOEC) or Reversible Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (rSOEC) for Hydrogen Production | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2877 | 1 |
| 3641 | 1 |
| 3679 | 1 |
| 1794 | 1 |
| 2116 | 1 |
| 2874 | 1 |
| 1738 | 1 |
| 2837 | 1 |
| 1797 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19082732 | Simultaneous Ultrasonic Vibration and Gas Sensing based on a Tunable Fiber Ring Laser | RAHMAN, MD M | 2877 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2025 |
| 18892790 | EXPLOSIVE BREACHING TOOL | BERGIN, JAMES S | 3641 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18758144 | Piping Connection Seal and Leak Detection | DRAGICEVICH, ZACHARY T | 3679 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 1d overdue | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18617295 | Microwave-assisted Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (SOEC), Proton Conducting Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (H-SOEC), Reversible Proton Conducting Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (rH-SOEC) or Reversible Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell (rSOEC) for Hydrogen Production | MENDEZ, ZULMARIAM | 1794 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 26, 2024 |
| 18545807 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PEAK-CLIPPING AND LOAD-SHIFTING ENERGY STORAGE DISPATCH CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR EVENT-BASED DEMAND RESPONSE | KAKARLA, BHASKAR | 2116 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 16d overdue | Pending | Dec 19, 2023 |
| 18510819 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FABRICATING LOW-LOSS AND LOW-NOISE WAVEGUIDES FOR VISIBLE WAVELENGTH APPLICATIONS | RAHLL, JERRY T | 2874 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 16, 2023 |
| 18137793 | Perovskite Oxygen Carriers and Methods for Making and Using Perovskite Oxygen Carriers | PIRO, NICHOLAS ANTHONY | 1738 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 9d | Pending | Apr 21, 2023 |
| 18097183 | HIGH FREQUENCY MEDIUM VOLTAGE TRANSFORMER WITH CENTRAL INSULATING DIVIDER | HINSON, RONALD | 2837 | §103 | Final Rejection | 15d | Pending | Jan 13, 2023 |
| 17729511 | Metal Oxides Enabled Fiber Optic pH Sensor for High temperature High pH Subsurface Environments | JARRETT, LORE RAMILLANO | 1797 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | 4d overdue | Pending | Apr 26, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialUnited States Department of Energy has 9 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 9 art units and 9 examiners.
Md M Rahman has the most, with 1 of United States Department of Energy's pending office actions.
Mostly Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics (USPTO Tech Center 2800), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
