Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Yokogawa Electric Corporation

Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics

68 pending office actions • 35 art units • 68 examiners • 0 of 68 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 96 patents granted in the last 365 days

Analysis

Yokogawa Electric Corporation currently has 68 pending office actions within the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. These 68 pending office actions are handled by 68 distinct examiners, meaning each examiner is responsible for a single case. The portfolio is distributed across 35 distinct art units, suggesting a very wide range of technical focuses. HAQUE, MD NAZMUL is the busiest examiner, currently overseeing 1 pending office action.

The 68 distinct examiners involved provide a broad base of individual perspectives for the 68 pending office actions. This distribution across 35 distinct art units requires the company to adapt to many different examination styles within Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. HAQUE, MD NAZMUL, with 1 pending office action, holds the same workload as every other examiner in this portfolio. Practitioners should monitor the 68 pending office actions for consistency across the 35 distinct art units.

The 35 distinct art units represent a significant variety of technical examination standards that the company must meet. With 68 pending office actions and 68 distinct examiners, the prosecution is perfectly decentralized. HAQUE, MD NAZMUL is identified as the busiest examiner despite only having 1 pending office action, reflecting the even distribution of work across the 68 distinct examiners.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Portfolio Summary

68
Total Pending OAs
51
Non-Final OAs
15
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

9
Overdue
0
Due this week
5
Due this month
3
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. 18 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (9)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 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.

46
Hard (68%)
22
Medium (32%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (4%)
§101 + other17 (25%)
§103 only17 (25%)
§102 only4 (6%)
Double-patenting + other1 (1%)
Multi-statute (no §101)26 (38%)

Industry Mix

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

10
Life Sciences
15% of docket
11
Information Tech
16% of docket
6
Communications
9% of docket
8
Semiconductors
12% of docket
6
Mechanical / Eng
9% of docket
27
Business / Other
40% 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.

680 h
Manual time on pending OAs
136 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
238 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.9 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HAQUE, MD NAZMUL 1 83.4% +15.4%
KO, TONY 1 87.8% +2.6%
WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW 1 71.3% +14.4%
SUN, MICHAEL 1 88.5% -1.9%
YENINAS, STEVEN LEE 1 73.5% +5.4%
MAUPIN, HUGH H 1 87.4% +6.4%
NGUYEN, TAI T 1 84.7% +17.3%
ROBINSON, TERRELL M 1 83.2% +7.9%
CLARE, MARK C 1 14.2% +19.9%
BARNETT, JACK KENSINGTON 1 85.2% +5.7%

Quick Wins (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 #TitleExaminerDue in
19078520 MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM MAUPIN, HUGH H —

Hard Cases (46)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17877256 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MODEL GENERATION METHOD BEAN, GRIFFIN TANNER 66d overdue
17780833 NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE MEASURING APPARATUS, NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE MEASURING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM SISSON, BRADLEY L 37d overdue
17679050 LEARNING APPARATUS, EVALUATION APPARATUS, EVALUATION SYSTEM, LEARNING METHOD, EVALUATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM LAHAM BAUZO, ALVARO SALIM 15d overdue
19065002 WORK SUPPORT APPARATUS, WORK SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND WORK SUPPORT METHOD CLARE, MARK C 9d overdue
18296156 ANALYSIS SYSTEM LEE, SANGKYUNG 9d overdue
18373715 CERTIFICATION SYSTEM, CERTIFICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE 9d
18916701 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM CHAE, KYU 22d
18171336 WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, WATER TREATMENT METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THOMPSON, CURTIS A 26d

Interview Candidates (4)

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 4 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
19065002 WORK SUPPORT APPARATUS, WORK SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND WORK SUPPORT METHOD CLARE, MARK C 9d overdue
19165830 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, OUTDOOR UNIT OF INTERCOM SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM HAQUE, MD NAZMUL —
19089505 ROBOT STAGING AREA MANAGEMENT WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW —
19077977 ALARM MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, ALARM MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM NGUYEN, TAI T —

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
1678 3
1798 2
2877 2
2857 2
2858 2
3625 2
2487 1
4100 1
3628 1
2114 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19165830 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, OUTDOOR UNIT OF INTERCOM SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM HAQUE, MD NAZMUL 2487 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 16, 2025
19217867 MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM KO, TONY — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 23, 2025
19089505 ROBOT STAGING AREA MANAGEMENT WOOD, BLAKE ANDREW — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 25, 2025
19081743 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM SUN, MICHAEL — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 17, 2025
19079668 MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND MEASUREMENT METHOD YENINAS, STEVEN LEE — §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 14, 2025
19078520 MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM MAUPIN, HUGH H — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 13, 2025
19077977 ALARM MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, ALARM MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM NGUYEN, TAI T 4100 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 12, 2025
19069969 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, VISUALIZATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM ROBINSON, TERRELL M — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 04, 2025
19065002 WORK SUPPORT APPARATUS, WORK SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND WORK SUPPORT METHOD CLARE, MARK C 3628 §101§103 Final Rejection 9d overdue Pending Feb 27, 2025
19058853 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD BARNETT, JACK KENSINGTON 2114 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 20, 2025
19057245 OPTICAL FIBER CHARACTERISTIC MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND OPTICAL FIBER CHARACTERISTIC MEASUREMENT METHOD AYUB, HINA F — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 19, 2025
19051069 FLUORESCENCE READING DEVICE AND FLUORESCENCE READING METHOD TRAN, MAI THI NGOC — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 11, 2025
19041835 APPARATUS, METHOD, AND, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM NGUYEN, PHU K — §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 30, 2025
19040785 COMPRESSION APPARATUS, DECOMPRESSION APPARATUS, COMPRESSION METHOD, DECOMPRESSION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM NGUYEN, KHAI M — §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 29, 2025
19016426 MONITORING METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND MONITORING APPARATUS KHALID, OMER 2422 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 10, 2025
18989688 POWER SUPPLY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM NOSIN, NISAT TABASSUM — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 20, 2024
18984772 APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM GRAY, FRANCIS C — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 17, 2024
18972283 PLANT OPERATION SUPPORT DEVICE SANDERS, JOSHUA T — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 06, 2024
18939549 EVALUATION APPARATUS, EVALUATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM PERLMAN, DAVID S — §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 07, 2024
18928156 MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND ESTIMATION SYSTEM SCHINDLER, DAVID M — §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 27, 2024
18923397 HEAT TRANSFER DEVICE, HEATING DEVICE, AND PROCESSING DEVICE WRIGHT, PATRICIA KATHRYN 1798 §102§112 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 22, 2024
18920473 ELECTROMAGNETIC FLOW METER CRAVEN, COLIN SCOTT — §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 18, 2024
18916701 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM CHAE, KYU 2426 §103§112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Oct 16, 2024
18916699 REACTION GENERATION APPARATUS, REACTION GENERATION METHOD, VIRTUAL PERSON PRESENTATION SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AMIN, JWALANT B 2612 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 16, 2024
18911423 COMMUNICATION CONTROL DEVICE, COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL SYSTEM GILLIS, BRIAN J — §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 10, 2024
18815266 SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS DEVICE AND SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS METHOD STOCK JR, GORDON J 2877 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 26, 2024
18795616 OPTICAL FIBER CHARACTERISTICS MEASUREMENT APPARATUS KIDWELL, KAITLYN ELIZABETH 2877 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 06, 2024
18774163 DETECTION APPARATUS, DETECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM KLICOS, NICHOLAS GEORGE — §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 16, 2024
18772689 MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND MEASUREMENT METHOD LEE, SHUN K 2884 §103 Final Rejection 19d overdue Pending Jul 15, 2024
18764538 DETECTION APPARATUS AND COMBUSTION SYSTEM LEE, BYUNG RO — §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 05, 2024
18756876 DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND SOFTWARE SWITCH METHOD WANG, HARRY Z — §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 27, 2024
18744681 APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM EL CHANTI, HUSSEIN A — §101§102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 16, 2024
18744677 COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM PHAM, QUANG 2685 §103 Final Rejection 42d Pending Jun 16, 2024
18672067 PLANT CONTROL SYSTEM AND PLANT CONTROL METHOD RAO, SHEELA S — §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 23, 2024
18666146 CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL SYSTEM BROWN, MICHAEL J — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 16, 2024
18704503 FINE CELLULOSE FIBER POWDER AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING FINE CELLULOSE FIBER POWDER MCINTOSH III, TRAVISS C — §103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 25, 2024
18704516 FINE CELLULOSE FIBER SOLID MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING FINE CELLULOSE FIBER SOLID MATERIAL LAU, JONATHAN S — §102§103Other Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 25, 2024
18385050 USING TEXT-TO-IMAGE MODEL(S) TO GENERATE SYNTHETIC IMAGES FOR TRAINING ANOMALY DETECTION MODEL(S) YANG, YI 2616 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 30, 2023
18373715 CERTIFICATION SYSTEM, CERTIFICATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM NIMOX, RAYMOND LONDALE 2857 §101§103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Sep 27, 2023
18372377 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM MANSFIELD, THOMAS L 3624 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 25, 2023
18242789 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM SULTANA, DILARA 2858 §103 Non-Final OA 8d Pending Sep 06, 2023
18242875 SOLUBILITY EVALUATION DEVICE, SOLUBILITY EVALUATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STUBBS, JOHN THOMAS — §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Sep 06, 2023
18234016 INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, EQUIPMENT REGISTRATION SYSTEM, AND EQUIPMENT REGISTRATION METHOD RAZA, MUHAMMAD A 2449 §101§103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 15, 2023
18233515 CELL CULTURE SYSTEM AND CELL CULTURE METHOD MONTGOMERY, ANN Y 1678 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 14, 2023
18230430 CONNECTOR GROUNDING STRUCTURE FIGUEROA, FELIX O 2831 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 04, 2023
18338361 MODEL SELECTION APPARATUS, MODEL SELECTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM ISLAM, MOHAMMAD K 2857 §101 Non-Final OA 35d Pending Jun 21, 2023
18325105 APPARATUS, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR MAINTAINING FACILITY NGUYEN, TAN D 3629 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending May 29, 2023
18324177 APPARATUS, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR MAINTAINING FACILITY PADOT, TIMOTHY 3625 §101§103 Non-Final OA 60d Pending May 26, 2023
18315462 DATA ACQUISITION APPARATUS, DATA ACQUISITION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM CHEN, XUEMEI G 2661 §102§103 Final Rejection 62d Pending May 10, 2023
18030927 SUPPORT DEVICE, SUPPORT METHOD, AND SUPPORT PROGRAM VARMA, AKASH K 1773 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 07, 2023
18296156 ANALYSIS SYSTEM LEE, SANGKYUNG 2858 §101§103 Non-Final OA 9d overdue Pending Apr 05, 2023
18192147 METHOD FOR PRODUCING COMPLEX, METHOD FOR DETERMINING MICROBIAL INCLUSION, AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING INCLUDED MICROORGANISM POHNERT, STEVEN C 1683 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 29, 2023
18023249 TARGET MEASUREMENT METHOD, TARGET MEASUREMENT DEVICE, TARGET MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, AND TARGET MEASUREMENT KIT MYERS, CARLA J 1678 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 24, 2023
18171336 WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM, WATER TREATMENT METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS THOMPSON, CURTIS A 1798 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Feb 18, 2023
17924748 DETECTION METHOD OF TARGET MOLECULE IN SPECIMEN AND DETECTION KIT FOR TARGET MOLECULE GAO, ASHLEY HARTMAN 1678 §103 Final Rejection 2d overdue Pending Nov 11, 2022
17967434 CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM RICHMOND, GARTH DANIEL 2644 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 17, 2022
17948256 CULTIVATION SUPPORT SYSTEM, CULTIVATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM DHARITHREESAN, NIDHI 1686 §102 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Sep 20, 2022
17877256 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND MODEL GENERATION METHOD BEAN, GRIFFIN TANNER 2121 §101§103 Non-Final OA 66d overdue Pending Jul 29, 2022
17873116 LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON LEARNING PROGRAM, AND CONTROL DEVICE TRIEU, EM N 2128 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 25, 2022
17865368 CULTIVATION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, CULTIVATION ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STANDKE, ADAM C 2129 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 14, 2022
17780833 NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE MEASURING APPARATUS, NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE MEASURING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM SISSON, BRADLEY L 1682 §101§112Other Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending May 27, 2022
17740353 APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM CHEN, HUO LONG 2682 §103 Final Rejection 155d overdue Pending May 10, 2022
17724448 EVALUATION APPARATUS, EVALUATION METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON EVALUATION PROGRAM, CONTROL APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON CONTROL PROGRAM ABOUZAHRA, REHAM K 3625 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 19, 2022
17692130 SYSTEM, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING PROGRAM STORED THEREON OKASHA, RAMI RAFAT 2118 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 10, 2022
17653042 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGEMENT OF A ROBOT FLEET FURGASON, KAREN LYNELLE 3665 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 01, 2022
17679050 LEARNING APPARATUS, EVALUATION APPARATUS, EVALUATION SYSTEM, LEARNING METHOD, EVALUATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM LAHAM BAUZO, ALVARO SALIM 2146 §101 Final Rejection 15d overdue Pending Feb 23, 2022
17676865 DETERMINATION APPARATUS, DETERMINATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING RECORDED THEREON DETERMINATION PROGRAM DEBNATH, NUPUR 2186 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 22, 2022
17431010 NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE, NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE MEASUREMENT METHOD, AND NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS NGUYEN, HENRY H 1758 §103 Final Rejection 26d overdue Pending Aug 13, 2021

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