Prosecution Insights
Last updated: July 17, 2026

United States Department of the Navy

22 pending office actions • 22 art units • 22 examiners • 0 of 22 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 136 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

22
Total Pending OAs
12
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
1
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

10
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
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. 14 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (10)Due ≤ 30 days (3)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.

2
Hard (9%)
20
Medium (91%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only2 (9%)
§103 only17 (77%)
§102 only3 (14%)

Industry Mix

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

3
Life Sciences
14% of docket
2
Information Tech
9% of docket
7
Communications
32% of docket
2
Semiconductors
9% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
36% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% 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.

220 h
Manual time on pending OAs
44 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
77 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
WEBER, JONATHAN C 1 64.3% +28.6%
SMITH, ISAAC G 1 72.9% +20.4%
PLECHA, THADDEUS J 1 87.1% +10.3%
LETT, THOMAS J 1 83.7% -35.6%
HYTREK, ASHLEY LYNN 1 88.9% +13.1%
TORRES, JOSE 1 82.0% +12.1%
LU, HAOTIAN 1 53.8% +38.3%
KIM, STEVEN S 1 38.2% +39.7%
VILLALUNA, ERIKA J 1 84.8% +3.2%
LERNER, MARTIN 1 78.0% +13.4%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18883808 Deceptive Resistance to Adversary Cyber Operations (DRACO) PLECHA, THADDEUS J 60d overdue
18797221 MODEL AND SIMULATION TOOL FOR DIGITAL IMAGERY AND TERRAIN DATA LETT, THOMAS J 30d overdue
18607976 COUNTER UNMANNED SYSTEMS USING POLARIMETRIC DETECTION, CLASSIFICATION, DISCRIMINATION, AND/OR IDENTIFICATION TORRES, JOSE 25d overdue
18779669 Method and a System for Bandwidth-Constrained Cooperative Object Detection HYTREK, ASHLEY LYNN
18376579 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR LEAK TESTING OF HERMETIC MICROELECTRONICS VILLALUNA, ERIKA J

Hard Cases (2)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17756805 PREDICTION OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS WINSTON III, EDWARD B 72d overdue
18537426 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING LIMITED ACCESS NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS KIM, STEVEN S 69d

Interview Candidates (8)

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
18226297 NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING OF N-GRAM TEXTUAL DATA INDICATIVE OF TRENDING THEMES LERNER, MARTIN 72d overdue
18883808 Deceptive Resistance to Adversary Cyber Operations (DRACO) PLECHA, THADDEUS J 60d overdue
18607976 COUNTER UNMANNED SYSTEMS USING POLARIMETRIC DETECTION, CLASSIFICATION, DISCRIMINATION, AND/OR IDENTIFICATION TORRES, JOSE 25d overdue
18537426 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING LIMITED ACCESS NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS KIM, STEVEN S 69d
18960299 PELLET PROJECTILE AND CARTRIDGE WEBER, JONATHAN C
18890268 IMPROVED UNDERWATER SENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS SMITH, ISAAC G
18779669 Method and a System for Bandwidth-Constrained Cooperative Object Detection HYTREK, ASHLEY LYNN
18606356 TOOL, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING PRESSURE THROUGH A CYLINDRICAL UNTHREADED ORIFICE LU, HAOTIAN

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3641 1
3662 1
2438 1
2611 1
2665 1
2664 1
3753 1
3698 1
2852 1
2658 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18960299 PELLET PROJECTILE AND CARTRIDGE WEBER, JONATHAN C 3641 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Nov 26, 2024
18890268 IMPROVED UNDERWATER SENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS SMITH, ISAAC G 3662 §103 Final Rejection Pending Sep 19, 2024
18883808 Deceptive Resistance to Adversary Cyber Operations (DRACO) PLECHA, THADDEUS J 2438 §103 Final Rejection 60d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2024
18797221 MODEL AND SIMULATION TOOL FOR DIGITAL IMAGERY AND TERRAIN DATA LETT, THOMAS J 2611 §102 Non-Final OA 30d overdue Pending Aug 07, 2024
18779669 Method and a System for Bandwidth-Constrained Cooperative Object Detection HYTREK, ASHLEY LYNN 2665 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Jul 22, 2024
18607976 COUNTER UNMANNED SYSTEMS USING POLARIMETRIC DETECTION, CLASSIFICATION, DISCRIMINATION, AND/OR IDENTIFICATION TORRES, JOSE 2664 §103 Non-Final OA 25d overdue Pending Mar 18, 2024
18606356 TOOL, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING PRESSURE THROUGH A CYLINDRICAL UNTHREADED ORIFICE LU, HAOTIAN 3753 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Mar 15, 2024
18537426 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING LIMITED ACCESS NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS KIM, STEVEN S 3698 §101 Final Rejection 69d Pending Dec 12, 2023
18376579 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR LEAK TESTING OF HERMETIC MICROELECTRONICS VILLALUNA, ERIKA J 2852 §103 Final Rejection Pending Oct 04, 2023
18226297 NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING OF N-GRAM TEXTUAL DATA INDICATIVE OF TRENDING THEMES LERNER, MARTIN 2658 §103 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2023
18226130 MICROSTRUCTURAL SURFACE INCORPORATION OF PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS FOR THERMAL MANAGEMENT WITTENBERG, STEFANIE S 1795 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Jul 25, 2023
18216457 APPARATUS AND METHODS TO FACILITATE SECURE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION WOLF, DARREN E 2634 §103 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Jun 29, 2023
18332984 Method and System for Utilizing Virtual Cameras in Point Cloud Environments to Support Computer Vision Object Recognition CADEAU, WEDNEL 2632 §103 Non-Final OA 29d Pending Jun 12, 2023
18196561 MULTI BROADBAND COAXIAL LASER BEAM COMBINER APPARATUS AND METHODS ABDUR, RAHMAN 2872 §102 Final Rejection Pending May 12, 2023
18141688 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED CORROSION TESTING WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN 1798 §103 Final Rejection Pending May 01, 2023
17982816 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LATTICE-BASED CRYPTOGRAPHY MAYE, AYUB A 2436 §103 Final Rejection Pending Nov 08, 2022
17756805 PREDICTION OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS WINSTON III, EDWARD B 3683 §101 Non-Final OA 72d overdue Pending Jun 02, 2022
17743245 EMBEDDED PRESSURE SENSING SYSTEM FOR INTERNAL BLAST PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS VALVIS, ALEXANDER M 3791 §103 Non-Final OA 274d overdue Pending May 12, 2022
17627254 AMPLIFICATION ASSAY FOR THE DETECTION OF ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM GOLDBERG, JEANINE ANNE 1682 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Jan 14, 2022
17513082 ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE STABILIZATION DEVICE HUSSAIN, MISHAL ZAHRA 3785 §103 Non-Final OA 15d Pending Oct 28, 2021
18621285 Synthetic Theater Operations Research Model GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE GALKA, LAWRENCE STEFAN 3715 §102 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending Mar 29, 2024
18441922 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR AN AUTONOMOUSLY TUNABLE INTERFERENCE TRACKING FILTER SOROWAR, GOLAM 2641 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Feb 14, 2024

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