Cantor Colburn Llp-Gm Cruise

Portfolio Summary

42

Total Pending OAs

15

Non-Final OAs

6

Final Rejections

21

Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 42 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

28

Overdue

1

Due this week

8

Due this month

2

Due in next 60 days

3

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. 42 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

Overdue (28)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (8)Due ≤ 60 days (2)Due later (3)

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.

1

Hard (2%)

41

Medium (98%)

0

Easy (0%)

0

Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

Bucket	Cases
§101 only	1 (2%)
§103 only	36 (86%)
§102 only	5 (12%)

Industry Mix

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

2

Life Sciences

5% of docket

5

Information Tech

12% of docket

3

Communications

7% of docket

2

Semiconductors

5% of docket

30

Mechanical / Eng

71% of docket

0

Business / Other

0% 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.

420 h

Manual time on pending OAs

84 h

Time saved (low, 20%)

147 h

Time saved (mid, 35%)

3.7 wks

FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

Examiner	Apps on this docket	Allow rate	Interview lift
BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A	2	86.5%	+5.3%
WHITTINGTON, JESS G	2	72.5%	+18.8%
CHAUDHRI, OMAIR	2	65.5%	+26.1%
SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO	2	44.7%	+13.3%
AURORA, REENA	1	86.9%	-13.7%
ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF	1	41.9%	+10.5%
WILLIS, BRANDON Z.	1	69.7%	+37.1%
DO, TRUC M	1	82.4%	+7.3%
ALKIRSH, AHMED	1	54.2%	+45.6%
PATEL, JAYESH A	1	83.4%	+5.3%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #	Title	Examiner	Due in
18466773	POINT CLOUD SEARCH USING MULTI-MODAL EMBEDDINGS	PATEL, JAYESH A	42d overdue
18414395	WIRE SPRING SENSOR CLOSURE	BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A	30d overdue
18414410	SPRINGLOADED RIVET FOR RADAR WAVEGUIDE PCBA INTERFACE	BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A	5d overdue
18404842	ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR FOR A RADAR SYSTEM	AURORA, REENA	14d
18483943	Multi-Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Combination Unit	DO, TRUC M	14d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #	Title	Examiner	Due in
17580251	DOMAIN BATCH BALANCING FOR TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM WITH DATA FROM MULTIPLE DATASETS	SACKALOSKY, COREY MATTHEW	161d overdue

Interview Candidates (9)

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 #	Title	Examiner	Due in
18360777	REMOTE ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES	WHITTINGTON, JESS G	197d overdue
18468509	PREDICTION OF MOVABILITY OF AN UNCLASSIFIED OBJECT	ALKIRSH, AHMED	104d overdue
17815674	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLEANING SENSORS OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES WITH HEATED LIQUID	CHAUDHRI, OMAIR	72d overdue
18403234	GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO GENERATE MULTIPLE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE FUTURE TRAJECTORIES	ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF	58d overdue
18402445	VEHICLE SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS BASED ON OPERATIONAL CONTEXTS	WILLIS, BRANDON Z.	52d overdue
17706055	PERCEPTION ERROR IDENTIFICATION	SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO	26d overdue
18354535	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLEANING SENSORS OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES WITH FLUID	CHAUDHRI, OMAIR	17d overdue
17713648	PERCEPTION ERROR IDENTIFICATION	SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO	13d

Client Portfolio (2 clients)

Client (Assignee)	Pending OAs
GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC	41
GM Cruise Holdings, LLC	1

Top Art Units

Art Unit	Apps
3645	6
3648	5
3665	4
3666	3
3663	3
3667	2
3668	2
1711	2
2858	1
3658	1

Pending Office Actions

App #	Title	Client	Examiner	Art Unit	Statutes	Status	Due in	AI	Filed
18414395	WIRE SPRING SENSOR CLOSURE	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A	3648	§103	Non-Final OA	30d overdue	Pending	Jan 16, 2024
18414410	SPRINGLOADED RIVET FOR RADAR WAVEGUIDE PCBA INTERFACE	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	BRAINARD, TIMOTHY A	3648	§103	Non-Final OA	5d overdue	Pending	Jan 16, 2024
18404842	ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR FOR A RADAR SYSTEM	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	AURORA, REENA	2858	§102	Non-Final OA	14d	Pending	Jan 04, 2024
18403234	GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO GENERATE MULTIPLE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE FUTURE TRAJECTORIES	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	ALSOMAIRY, IBRAHIM ABDOALATIF	3667	§103	Non-Final OA	58d overdue	Pending	Jan 03, 2024
18402445	VEHICLE SENSOR CONFIGURATIONS BASED ON OPERATIONAL CONTEXTS	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	WILLIS, BRANDON Z.	3665	§103	Non-Final OA	52d overdue	Pending	Jan 02, 2024
18483943	Multi-Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Combination Unit	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	DO, TRUC M	3658	§103	Final Rejection	14d	Pending	Oct 10, 2023
18468509	PREDICTION OF MOVABILITY OF AN UNCLASSIFIED OBJECT	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	ALKIRSH, AHMED	3668	§103	Non-Final OA	104d overdue	Pending	Sep 15, 2023
18466773	POINT CLOUD SEARCH USING MULTI-MODAL EMBEDDINGS	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	PATEL, JAYESH A	2677	§103	Non-Final OA	42d overdue	Pending	Sep 13, 2023
18466779	VOXEL SEARCH USING MULTI-MODAL EMBEDDINGS	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	CHANDRASIRI, UPUL PRIYADARSHAN	3665	§103	Final Rejection	17d overdue	Pending	Sep 13, 2023
18464625	SPATIAL PATH GUIDANCE FOR REMOTE ASSISTANCE OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	SCHNEIDER, PAULA LYNN	3668	§103	Non-Final OA	91d overdue	Pending	Sep 11, 2023
18463775	INTERFACE TO CONTROL UNIT OF A VEHICLE	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	CHACE, CHRISTIAN	3665	§103	Non-Final OA	128d overdue	Pending	Sep 08, 2023
18461484	LINEAR KALMAN FILTER WITH RADAR 2D VECTOR VELOCITY OBJECT ESTIMATION USING DISTRIBUTED RADAR NETWORK	GM Cruise Holdings, LLC	GOSLING, ANNA KOBACKER	3648	§103	Non-Final OA	4d overdue	Pending	Sep 05, 2023
18460123	ASSOCIATION OF BOTTOM-UP KEYPOINTS BASED ON BOUNDING BOX EXTENTS	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	BARBEE, MANUEL L	2857	§102	Non-Final OA	22d	Pending	Sep 01, 2023
18457848	ULTRASONIC OBJECT DETECTION	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	ABULABAN, ABDALLAH	3645	§103	Non-Final OA	103d overdue	Pending	Aug 29, 2023
18360777	REMOTE ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	WHITTINGTON, JESS G	3666	§103	Non-Final OA	197d overdue	Pending	Jul 27, 2023
18359598	DYNAMIC CONTROL OF REMOTE ASSISTANCE SYSTEM DEPENDING ON CONNECTION PARAMETERS	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	WHITTINGTON, JESS G	3666	§103	Final Rejection	71d	Pending	Jul 26, 2023
18354535	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLEANING SENSORS OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES WITH FLUID	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	CHAUDHRI, OMAIR	1711	§103	Non-Final OA	17d overdue	Pending	Jul 18, 2023
18352645	SWITCHED NEURAL NETWORKS	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	CASANOVA, JORGE A	2165	§103	Non-Final OA	16d overdue	Pending	Jul 14, 2023
18333378	ADAPTIVE ASSEMBLY OF LIDAR FOR ASYMMETRIC ILLUMINATION	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	CABRERA, DOMINICK JACOB	3648	§102	Non-Final OA	27d	Pending	Jun 12, 2023
18326740	PERCEPTION AND UNDERSTANDING OF ROAD USERS AND ROAD OBJECTS	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	GOEBEL, EMMA ROSE	2662	§103	Non-Final OA	46d	Pending	May 31, 2023
18191671	LOCALIZATION INITIALIZATION OF AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	TESSEMA, BESUFEKAD LEMMA	3665	§103	Non-Final OA	198d overdue	Pending	Mar 28, 2023
18186721	SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES FOR MITIGATING CROSSTALK AND INTERFERENCE FOR FLASH IMAGING LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING (LiDAR) DEVICES	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	RICHTER, KARA MARIE	3645	§103	Non-Final OA	12d	Pending	Mar 20, 2023
18185277	AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE PARKING USING HIGH-DEFINITION MAPS	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	DOROS, KAYLA RENEE	3657	§103	Final Rejection	60d overdue	Pending	Mar 16, 2023
18183693	MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR PROCESSING DATA FROM DIFFERENT VEHICLE PLATFORMS	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	KIM, SEHWAN	2129	§103	Non-Final OA	5d	Pending	Mar 14, 2023
18175938	MODULAR MAPPING SYSTEM FOR GENERATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL MAPS FOR USE BY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	WANG, KAI NMN	3664	§103	Non-Final OA	55d	Pending	Feb 28, 2023
18174428	IDENTIFYING BIDIRECTIONAL CHANNELIZATION ZONES AND LANE DIRECTIONALITY	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	HAUSMANN, MICHELLE M	2671	§103	Non-Final OA	30d overdue	Pending	Feb 24, 2023
18105221	SENSOR BLOCKAGE DETECTION BASED UPON RAW RADAR DATA	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	MAKHDOOM, SAMARINA	3648	§103	Non-Final OA	67d overdue	Pending	Feb 02, 2023
18156321	SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES FOR MEASURING MODEL SENSITIVITY AND FEATURE IMPORTANCE OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	GONZALES, VINCENT	2124	§103	Final Rejection	61d	Pending	Jan 18, 2023
18150707	ONLINE CALIBRATION OF MISALIGNMENT BETWEEN VEHICLE SENSORS	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	WIGGER, BENJAMIN DAVID	3645	§103	Final Rejection	70d	Pending	Jan 05, 2023
18149779	PROTOCOL AND USER-INTERFACE FOR REVERSING AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE UNDER REMOTE ASSISTANCE SUPERVISION	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	KHALED, ABDALLA A	3667	§103	Non-Final OA	209d overdue	Pending	Jan 04, 2023
18059084	INCREASE SIMULATOR PERFORMANCE USING MULTIPLE MESH FIDELITIES FOR DIFFERENT SENSOR MODALITIES	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	HOPKINS, DAVID ANDREW	2188	§103	Non-Final OA	5d overdue	Pending	Nov 28, 2022
17972382	LIGHT-BASED TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSOR SIMULATION	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	RATCLIFFE, LUKE D	3645	§103	Non-Final OA	16d overdue	Pending	Oct 24, 2022
17891463	PHASE UNWRAPPING SIGNAL PROCESSING UNIT WITH FLEXIBLE DOUBLE FREQUENCIES	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	THATCHER, CLINT A	3645	§102	Non-Final OA	8d	Pending	Aug 19, 2022
17815674	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLEANING SENSORS OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES WITH HEATED LIQUID	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	CHAUDHRI, OMAIR	1711	§103	Non-Final OA	72d overdue	Pending	Jul 28, 2022
17843811	DEPENDENCY MODELING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	SHARON, AYAL I	3695	§103	Non-Final OA	59d overdue	Pending	Jun 17, 2022
17836013	MULTISTATIC RADAR POINT CLOUD FORMATION USING A SENSOR WAVEFORM ENCODING SCHEMA	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	MARUNDA II, TORRENCE S	3663	§103	Non-Final OA	19d	Pending	Jun 09, 2022
17724661	CONTEXTUAL RIGHT-OF-WAY DECISION MAKING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	SHAFI, MUHAMMAD	3666	§103	Non-Final OA	679d overdue	Pending	Apr 20, 2022
17722206	AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE RISK EVALUATION	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	DUNNE, KENNETH MICHAEL	3669	§102	Non-Final OA	117d overdue	Pending	Apr 15, 2022
17713648	PERCEPTION ERROR IDENTIFICATION	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO	3663	§103	Non-Final OA	13d	Pending	Apr 05, 2022
17706055	PERCEPTION ERROR IDENTIFICATION	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	SANTOS, AARRON EDUARDO	3663	§103	Non-Final OA	26d overdue	Pending	Mar 28, 2022
17580251	DOMAIN BATCH BALANCING FOR TRAINING A MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM WITH DATA FROM MULTIPLE DATASETS	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	SACKALOSKY, COREY MATTHEW	2128	§101	Non-Final OA	161d overdue	Pending	Jan 20, 2022
17559323	MULTIPLE LASER, SINGLE RESONATOR LIDAR	GM Cruise Holdings LLC	VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM	3645	§103	Non-Final OA	117d overdue	Pending	Dec 22, 2021