Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated

10 pending office actions • 8 art units • 10 examiners • 0 of 10 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 21 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

10
Total Pending OAs
6
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

2
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
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. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (2)Due ≤ 30 days (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.

7
Hard (70%)
3
Medium (30%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 + other5 (50%)
§103 only3 (30%)
Multi-statute (no §101)2 (20%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
6
Information Tech
60% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
20% of docket
2
Business / Other
20% 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.

100 h
Manual time on pending OAs
20 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
35 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
NGUYEN, TIEN C 1 67.9% +18.3%
APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ 1 60.6% +4.5%
HALE, BROOKS T 1 49.4% +33.0%
NIGH, JAMES D 1 59.0% +30.4%
NILSSON, ERIC 1 82.8% +17.2%
AGAHI, PUYA 1 49.1% +23.7%
KAPOOR, DEVAN 1 7.1% +11.1%
SPRATT, BEAU D 1 78.9% +24.2%
HADDAD, MAJD MAHER 1 100.0% +0.0%
SPRAUL III, VINCENT ANTON 1 56.5% +27.4%

Hard Cases (7)

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 #TitleExaminerDue in
18189039 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING FOR IMPROVING ANOMALY DETECTION KAPOOR, DEVAN 2d overdue
18155228 MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING APPROACH FOR A MULTITASK PREDICTIVE DOMAIN HADDAD, MAJD MAHER 20d
19022202 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL FRAUD DETECTION NGUYEN, TIEN C
19007160 Supervised and Transferred Learning Techniques for Detecting Fraud or Abuse Relating to Service Events APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ
19007326 RADIO FREQUENCY BASED SELF CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES HALE, BROOKS T
18975137 SECURE AND AUTONOMOUS DATA ENCRYPTION AND SELECTIVE DE-IDENTIFICATION NIGH, JAMES D
18532510 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR PREDICTING AND RANKING SUGGESTIONS BASED ON USER ACTIVITY DATA NILSSON, ERIC

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
17486272 PREDICTIVE ANOMALY DETECTION USING DEFINED INTERACTION LEVEL ANOMALY SCORES SPRAUL III, VINCENT ANTON 32d overdue
18189039 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING FOR IMPROVING ANOMALY DETECTION KAPOOR, DEVAN 2d overdue
19022202 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL FRAUD DETECTION NGUYEN, TIEN C
19007326 RADIO FREQUENCY BASED SELF CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES HALE, BROOKS T
18975137 SECURE AND AUTONOMOUS DATA ENCRYPTION AND SELECTIVE DE-IDENTIFICATION NIGH, JAMES D
18532510 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR PREDICTING AND RANKING SUGGESTIONS BASED ON USER ACTIVITY DATA NILSSON, ERIC
18300451 ADAPTIVE PREDICTIONS BASED ON CONTINUOUS SENSOR MEASUREMENTS AGAHI, PUYA
18172521 INDIVIDUALIZED CLASSIFICATION THRESHOLDS FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS SPRATT, BEAU D

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
3693 1
2166 1
2400 1
3791 1
2126 1
2143 1
2125 1
2129 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19022202 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDICAL FRAUD DETECTION NGUYEN, TIEN C §101DP Non-Final OA Pending Jan 15, 2025
19007160 Supervised and Transferred Learning Techniques for Detecting Fraud or Abuse Relating to Service Events APPLE, KIRSTEN SACHWITZ 3693 §101§103 Final Rejection Pending Dec 31, 2024
19007326 RADIO FREQUENCY BASED SELF CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES HALE, BROOKS T 2166 §103§112 Final Rejection Pending Dec 31, 2024
18975137 SECURE AND AUTONOMOUS DATA ENCRYPTION AND SELECTIVE DE-IDENTIFICATION NIGH, JAMES D 2400 §102§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 10, 2024
18532510 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR PREDICTING AND RANKING SUGGESTIONS BASED ON USER ACTIVITY DATA NILSSON, ERIC §101§103 Non-Final OA Pending Dec 07, 2023
18300451 ADAPTIVE PREDICTIONS BASED ON CONTINUOUS SENSOR MEASUREMENTS AGAHI, PUYA 3791 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Apr 14, 2023
18189039 MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING FOR IMPROVING ANOMALY DETECTION KAPOOR, DEVAN 2126 §101§103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Mar 23, 2023
18172521 INDIVIDUALIZED CLASSIFICATION THRESHOLDS FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS SPRATT, BEAU D 2143 §103 Non-Final OA Pending Feb 22, 2023
18155228 MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING APPROACH FOR A MULTITASK PREDICTIVE DOMAIN HADDAD, MAJD MAHER 2125 §101§103 Non-Final OA 20d Pending Jan 17, 2023
17486272 PREDICTIVE ANOMALY DETECTION USING DEFINED INTERACTION LEVEL ANOMALY SCORES SPRAUL III, VINCENT ANTON 2129 §103 Final Rejection 32d overdue Pending Sep 27, 2021

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