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Last updated: April 19, 2026

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft

59 pending office actions

Portfolio Summary

59
Total Pending OAs
19
Final Rejections
40
Non-Final OAs

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
19114270 STEERING COLUMN SWITCH, STEERING WHEEL SYSTEM, MOTOR VEHICLE, AND METHOD AU, SCOTT D 2624 Non-Final OA Mar 21, 2025
19015259 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR LONGITUDINALLY GUIDING A MOTOR VEHICLE SHUDY, ANGELINA M 3668 Non-Final OA Jan 09, 2025
18983232 DRIVE UNIT FOR A WHEEL ACTUATOR OF A STEER-BY-WIRE SYSTEM FOR A VEHICLE, AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION OF THE CONTROL ROD OF A WHEEL ACTUATOR DALLO, JOSEPH J 3747 Non-Final OA Dec 16, 2024
18941532 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A HANDS-OFF STATE AT A STEERING WHEEL GONZALEZ, MARIO CARLOS 3668 Non-Final OA Nov 08, 2024
18885279 VALIDATING A TRAVEL CORRIDOR FOR LATERAL GUIDANCE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE HORNER, MINATO LEE 3665 Non-Final OA Sep 13, 2024
18839531 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED COORDINATION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF A PLURALITY OF ROBOTS EVANS, KARSTON G 3657 Final Rejection Aug 19, 2024
18787362 METHOD FOR WINDING A FOIL ONTO A WINDING CORE, AND COIL KIM, SANG K 3654 Non-Final OA Jul 29, 2024
18774844 MOBILE ACCESS SYSTEM FOR GRANTING ACCESS TO A DEVICE YACOB, SISAY 2686 Non-Final OA Jul 16, 2024
18766352 DEVICE FOR REPLACING A COIL OR A CORE, ARRANGEMENT, AND METHOD FOR REPLACING A COIL OR A CORE KIM, SANG K 3654 Non-Final OA Jul 08, 2024
18765782 Method And Driver Assistance System For Assisted Reversing With A Vehicle-Trailer Combination And Motor Vehicle WANG, YI-KAI 3747 Non-Final OA Jul 08, 2024
18726750 METHOD FOR OPERATING AN AT LEAST PARTIALLY AUTOMATED VEHICLE IN A MANUAL DRIVING MODE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND SYSTEM DAGER, JONATHAN M 3663 Final Rejection Jul 03, 2024
18753592 GENERATING PHYSICAL COMPONENTS BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TRAN, JENNY NGAN 2615 Non-Final OA Jun 25, 2024
18740193 METHOD FOR CHECKING AN AUTOMATED DRIVING VEHICLE PRIOR TO STARTING A DRIVE, AND AUTOMATED DRIVING VEHICLE HEIM, MARK ROBERT 3668 Non-Final OA Jun 11, 2024
18737213 TRACTION NETWORK FOR A VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A TRACTION NETWORK PHAM, DUC M 2849 Non-Final OA Jun 07, 2024
18714697 METHOD AND ASSISTANCE SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING A LANE CHANGE MANEUVER, AND MOTOR VEHICLE ABD EL LATIF, HOSSAM M 3664 Non-Final OA May 30, 2024
18674585 PERFORMING AN AUTOMATED LANE CHANGE MANEUVER FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE STAUBACH, CARL C 3747 Non-Final OA May 24, 2024
18667747 METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING A CRANKCASE SYSTEM, CRANKCASE SYSTEM, VEHICLE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT MOSCOLA, MATTHEW JOHN 3663 Non-Final OA May 17, 2024
18668121 STRUCTURED ARTIFICIAL LEATHER MATERIAL COMPRISING WATER-LADEN PARTICLES FROM A RENEWABLE RAW MATERIAL SALVATORE, LYNDA 1789 Non-Final OA May 17, 2024
18649903 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRIC MACHINE DINH, THAI T 2846 Non-Final OA Apr 29, 2024
18705817 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTONOMOUSLY PLUGGING A CHARGING PLUG INTO A CHARGING SOCKET OF A VEHICLE KHAYER, SOHANA T 3657 Final Rejection Apr 29, 2024
18698736 A CONCEPT FOR CONTROLLING AN UPDATE PROCESS OF A COMPUTATIONAL FUNCTION BLOCK IN A VEHICLE SOLTANZADEH, AMIR 2191 Non-Final OA Apr 04, 2024
18627232 POSITION SENSOR FOR A VALVE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE POSITION OF A VALVE FURDGE, LARRY L 3763 Non-Final OA Apr 04, 2024
18697690 A Method, a Computer Program Product and a Device for Dynamic Spatial Anonymization of Vehicle Data in a Cloud Environment OVALLE JR., DAVID MESQUITI 3669 Non-Final OA Apr 01, 2024
18622168 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DRY ELECTRODES ON A CURRENT COLLECTOR WITH THE AID OF A ROLLER SYSTEM, ROLLER SYSTEM, DRY ELECTRODE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM MCCLURE, CHRISTINA D 1718 Final Rejection Mar 29, 2024
18612970 METHOD FOR CHECKING A BATTERY ELEMENT STACK WITH REGARD TO THE POSITION OF BATTERY ELEMENT LAYERS FOX, DANIELLE A 2884 Non-Final OA Mar 21, 2024
18693117 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A QUALITY VALUE OF A PARKING SPACE POPE, DARYL C 2686 Non-Final OA Mar 18, 2024
18605545 METHOD FOR OPERATING A ROLLING DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING AN ELECTRODE SHEET, AND ROLLING DEVICE WOLLSCHLAGER, JEFFREY MICHAEL 1742 Final Rejection Mar 14, 2024
18690703 METHOD FOR EXPANDING AN INFORMATION CLUSTER, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A VEHICLE FLEET, ELECTRONIC TRAJECTORY GENERATION SYSTEM, VEHICLE FLEET SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT SOOD, ANSHUL 3667 Final Rejection Mar 08, 2024
18442863 Vehicle and Server for Quality Measurement of a Road Side Unit SHELEHEDA, JAMES R 2424 Non-Final OA Feb 15, 2024
18402080 Device and Method for Manufacturing an Electrode PATWARDHAN, ABHISHEK A 1746 Final Rejection Jan 02, 2024
18572904 Method for Obtaining Information on the Status of a Motor Vehicle During a Production Process of the Motor Vehicle, and Monitoring System EVANS, GEOFFREY T 2852 Non-Final OA Dec 21, 2023
18542749 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING THE OPERATION OF AN ENGINE-INDEPENDENT AUXILIARY HEATER AND FOR DIAGNOSING A COOLANT TEMPERATURE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE MOUBRY, JAMES G 3747 Non-Final OA Dec 17, 2023
18541363 TRANSFORMER-BASED AI PLANNER FOR LANE CHANGING ON MULTI-LANE ROAD ROBERT, DANIEL M 3665 Non-Final OA Dec 15, 2023
18511293 IN-VEHICLE MEDIA DISCOVERY AND RENDERING RODRIGUEZ, DANIEL 2178 Final Rejection Nov 16, 2023
18388380 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING A DRY FILM GRAHAM, ANDREW D 1742 Non-Final OA Nov 09, 2023
18499065 VEHICLE SUSPENSION FOR TRAILER COUPLING MECHANISM AND VEHICLE SUPPORT FRISBY, KEITH J 3614 Non-Final OA Oct 31, 2023
18479757 METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR ACTIVATING A DISPLAY DEVICE OF A NAVIGATION SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND VEHICLE AFRIN, NAZIA 3666 Non-Final OA Oct 02, 2023
18260890 Method for Assisting a Driver of a Motor Vehicle During a Parking Manoeuvre, and Motor Vehicle HILGENDORF, DALE W 3662 Final Rejection Sep 12, 2023
18547554 Methods, Computer Programs and Apparatus for Performing a Teleoperated Driving Session CHOU, SHIEN MING 3667 Non-Final OA Aug 23, 2023
18448954 METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING A USER, A SYSTEM AND A TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE JIANG, YONG HANG 2689 Non-Final OA Aug 13, 2023
18448036 MOUNTING DEVICE FOR MOUNTING A SENSOR ON A VEHICLE COMPONENT AND VEHICLE COMPONENT WITH MOUNTING DEVICE SCHMITT, BENJAMIN R 2852 Final Rejection Aug 10, 2023
18230229 PARTITION FOR A COMMERCIAL OR TRANSPORT VEHICLE KIM, YUNJU 1742 Final Rejection Aug 04, 2023
18272313 DISC BRAKE ARRANGEMENT AND BRAKE DUST PARTICLE FILTER SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER P 3616 Non-Final OA Jul 13, 2023
18341609 TRIPOD ROLLER AND TRIPOD JOINT ASSEMBLY BINDA, GREGORY JOHN 3679 Final Rejection Jun 26, 2023
18209845 DEVICES SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE POWER STORAGE HA, STEVEN S 1735 Non-Final OA Jun 14, 2023
18203390 GALVANIC MONOCELL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME RAYMOND, BRITTANY L 1722 Non-Final OA May 30, 2023
18249443 Method and Control Device for the Situation-Dependent Determination of Observation Areas for Motor Vehicles Operated in an at Least Partially Autonomous Manner GILBERTSON, SHAYNE M 3665 Final Rejection Apr 18, 2023
18086236 BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK MANG, LAL C 2857 Final Rejection Dec 21, 2022
18045997 METHOD FOR USER EQUIPMENT FOR IMPROVING A HANDOVER LIST, METHOD FOR A CELL, APPARATUS, VEHICLE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM TAYLOR, BARRY W 2646 Non-Final OA Oct 12, 2022
18046032 METHOD FOR USER EQUIPMENT FOR IMPROVING A TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY, METHOD FOR A NETWORK ENTITY, APPARATUS, VEHICLE AND COMPUTER PROGRAM WILLIAMS, ALYSSA RENEE 2465 Non-Final OA Oct 12, 2022
17799647 SCALABLE ROLL-TO-ROLL FABRICATION OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLIES OHARA, BRIAN R 1724 Non-Final OA Aug 12, 2022
17793343 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONFIGURING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE IN THE EVENT OF A FAULT MILLER, LEAH NICOLE 3666 Final Rejection Jul 15, 2022
17860930 SELF-LOCALIZATION OF A VEHICLE BASED ON AN INITIAL POSE MA, KAM WAN 2688 Final Rejection Jul 08, 2022
17655668 METHOD FOR HANDLING TRAFFIC SITUATIONS WITH RESTRICTED PASSAGE GEOMETRY AND TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 2171 Final Rejection Mar 21, 2022
17638829 Classification of AI Modules HAEFNER, KAITLYN RENEE 2148 Non-Final OA Feb 27, 2022
17564002 GENERATING SYNTHETIC TRAINING DATA FOR PERCEPTION MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING DATA GENERATORS GRUSZKA, DANIEL PATRICK 2121 Non-Final OA Dec 28, 2021
17553348 DYNAMIC MODALITY-BASED VEHICLE NAVIGATION BLOOMQUIST, KEITH D 2171 Final Rejection Dec 16, 2021
17476515 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DRYING A FILM MATERIAL LAU, JASON 3762 Final Rejection Sep 16, 2021
17181767 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE CHARGING PROCESS OF AN ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE, AND CHARGING DEVICE, AS WELL AS SYSTEM CONSISTING OF ELECTRIFIED VEHICLE AND CHARGING DEVICE KOUSAR, SADIA 2859 Non-Final OA Feb 22, 2021

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