Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Examiner: WOLFORD, NAOMI M

Tech Center 3600 • Art Units: 2875 3648

This examiner grants 56% of resolved cases

Analysis

Naomi M. Wolford is a patent examiner in Tech Center 3600 and Art Unit 2875. The examiner has 243 resolved cases. The allowance rate for these cases is 56.4 percent. This percentage represents the proportion of applications that reach a grant. The 243 resolved cases provide a factual basis for understanding the examiner's history in this art unit.

The interview lift is 39.6 percent. This figure indicates the difference in allowance probability for cases that include an interview. The median days to allowance is 949. This number shows the time from filing to grant for successful applications. Practitioners can use the 56.4 percent allowance rate and the 949 median days to allowance to set expectations for the prosecution process. These data points offer a grounded view of the examiner's actions. The interview lift of 39.6 percent is a statistical measure of the impact of direct communication during the examination of patent applications.

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

Performance Statistics

56.4%
Allow Rate
+4.4% vs TC avg
268
Total Applications
+39.6%
Interview Lift
949
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 243 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

1.9%
§101 Eligibility
15.2%
§102 Novelty
60.3%
§103 Obviousness
21.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18976979 METHOD FOR OPERATING A RADAR DEVICE AND RADAR DEVICE Non-Final OA NXP B.V.
18941734 RADIATING ELEMENTS Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18743047 SENSING METHOD, COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, MEDIUM, AND CHIP Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18860234 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A COHERENT COOPERATIVE RADAR SENSOR NETWORK Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18964400 RADAR PULSE WITH LINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATION Non-Final OA COMMISSARIAT A L’ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
18043816 TIME-ANGLE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR POSITIONING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18718887 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING Non-Final OA Sony Group Corporation
18661709 SENSOR SYSTEM, VEHICLE COMPRISING SAID SENSOR SYSTEM, AND RADIO WAVE TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD Final Rejection Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
18963335 METHODS, ARCHITECTURES, APPARATUSES, AND SYSTEMS FOR SENSING-ASSISTED POSITIONING Non-Final OA InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
18417036 SENSING AIDED ORTHOGONAL TIME FREQUENCY SPACE (OTFS) CHANEL ESTIMATION FOR MASSIVE MULTIPLE-INPUT AND MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEMS Non-Final OA ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
18678035 HYBRID TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SCHEME FOR INTEGRATED SENSING AND COMMUNICATION Final Rejection ZTE CORPORATION
18280729 NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT RADAR APPARATUS Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
18975911 GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATOR DETECTION SYSTEM Non-Final OA Raytheon Company
18223688 PULSE PARAMETER DETECTION FOR RADAR AND COMMUNICATIONS USING TRAINED NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA RAYTHEON COMPANY
18983694 ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADAR DEVICE, METHOD FOR AUTHORIZING A CONTROL ACTION AND METHOD FOR SECURE LOCALIZATION Non-Final OA Infineon Technologies AG
18551457 Method for Generating Substitute Correction Data for GNSS-Based Localization Final Rejection U-Blox AG

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