Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 6 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
Vicarious Surgical Inc. has 7 pending office actions in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matters involve 6 distinct examiners and 5 distinct art units, indicating that the pending work is distributed across a small but varied examination footprint.
WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA is the busiest examiner with 2 pending matters. Prosecution counsel may therefore use a targeted approach for that examiner while preserving separate strategies for the other assignments. The profile supports attention to claim scope and technical distinctions in each matter rather than relying on a single portfolio-wide response pattern.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (43%) |
| §102 only | 1 (14%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (43%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 2 | 70.4% | +27.8% |
| NGUYEN, ROBERT T | 1 | 83.6% | +10.7% |
| BROWN, SHEREE N | 1 | 65.6% | +26.5% |
| WELCH, HALLE MARGARET | 1 | 0.0% | +0.0% |
| ADAMS, EILEEN M | 1 | 86.3% | +4.1% |
| HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | 1 | 61.7% | +19.5% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19469643 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ELASTIC CABLE DRIVEN ROBOT JOINTS | NGUYEN, ROBERT T | — |
| 19111232 | HAND CONTROLLERS, SYSTEMS, AND CONTROL METHODS FOR SURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEMS | WELCH, HALLE MARGARET | — |
| 18870953 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STEREOSCOPIC VISUALIZATION IN SURGICAL ROBOTICS WITHOUT REQUIRING GLASSES OR HEADGEAR | ADAMS, EILEEN M | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19469643 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ELASTIC CABLE DRIVEN ROBOT JOINTS | NGUYEN, ROBERT T | — |
| 19207145 | SURGICAL VIRTUAL REALITY USER INTERFACE | BROWN, SHEREE N | — |
| 18213011 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A MULTI-TURN ROTARY CONCEPT IN AN ACTUATOR MECHANISM OF A SURGICAL ROBOTIC ARM | HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | — |
| 18095315 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REVERSING ORIENTATION AND VIEW OF SELECTED COMPONENTS OF A MINIATURIZED SURGICAL ROBOTIC UNIT IN VIVO | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | — |
| 18090983 | ROTATIONAL ACTUATORS FOR SURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEMS | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3792 | 3 |
| 3619 | 1 |
| 2612 | 1 |
| 3796 | 1 |
| 2481 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19469643 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING ELASTIC CABLE DRIVEN ROBOT JOINTS | NGUYEN, ROBERT T | 3619 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 19207145 | SURGICAL VIRTUAL REALITY USER INTERFACE | BROWN, SHEREE N | 2612 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 13, 2025 |
| 19111232 | HAND CONTROLLERS, SYSTEMS, AND CONTROL METHODS FOR SURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEMS | WELCH, HALLE MARGARET | 3796 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 12, 2025 |
| 18870953 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STEREOSCOPIC VISUALIZATION IN SURGICAL ROBOTICS WITHOUT REQUIRING GLASSES OR HEADGEAR | ADAMS, EILEEN M | 2481 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 02, 2024 |
| 18213011 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING A MULTI-TURN ROTARY CONCEPT IN AN ACTUATOR MECHANISM OF A SURGICAL ROBOTIC ARM | HUSSAINI, ATTIYA SAYYADA | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18095315 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REVERSING ORIENTATION AND VIEW OF SELECTED COMPONENTS OF A MINIATURIZED SURGICAL ROBOTIC UNIT IN VIVO | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 3792 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 10, 2023 |
| 18090983 | ROTATIONAL ACTUATORS FOR SURGICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEMS | WEBSTER, KARMEL JOHANNA | 3792 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 29, 2022 |
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Start Free TrialVicarious Surgical Inc. has 7 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 5 art units and 6 examiners.
Karmel Johanna Webster has the most, with 2 of Vicarious Surgical Inc.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
