Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
44 pending office actions • 2 clients • 43 examiners • 28 art units • 0 of 44 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 206 patents granted in the last 365 days
CROWE & DUNLEVY - ST focuses on Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics. The profile includes 45 pending office actions and 6435 career applications, showing an active docket and a broad historical prosecution record. The scale supports formal docket oversight and prioritization of matters by response status and technical complexity.
The resolved allowance rate is 92.43%, and the average is 3.27 office actions per allowance. Resolved matters therefore frequently reach allowance, although the average indicates that several examination exchanges can occur before resolution. Practitioners should treat the strong outcome measure as portfolio context while continuing to assess claim scope and cited art in each semiconductor matter.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
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 |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (2%) |
| §103 only | 14 (32%) |
| §102 only | 3 (7%) |
| §112 only | 3 (7%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 23 (52%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL | 2 | 88.2% | +8.8% |
| GRULLON, FRANCISCO A | 1 | 88.0% | -1.2% |
| CHEN, SIBIN | 1 | 86.6% | +5.2% |
| CHIU, WESLEY JASON | 1 | 62.6% | +26.3% |
| NGUYEN, HAI L | 1 | 87.2% | +9.3% |
| NGUYEN, LINH V | 1 | 89.2% | +2.3% |
| SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | 1 | 87.7% | +21.4% |
| PHAM, LY D | 1 | 94.0% | +3.4% |
| GOLDEN, ANDREW J | 1 | 42.9% | +38.1% |
| GAO, JING | 1 | 58.1% | +30.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19197363 | CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR DEBOUNCING SIGNALS PRODUCED BY A ROTARY ENCODER | CHEN, SIBIN | — |
| 19020407 | DATA PROTECTION | SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | — |
| 18968768 | LINEAR VOLTAGE REGULATOR | NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18226409 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PACKAGE | FAN, SU JYA | 4d overdue |
| 18943113 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS | GOLDEN, ANDREW J | 34d |
| 18358331 | Tensor Decomposition Rank Exploration for Neural Network Compression | PARK, GRACE A | 70d |
| 19255003 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A MICROCONTROLLER AND CORRESPONDING MICROCONTROLLER | GRULLON, FRANCISCO A | — |
| 19178138 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE | CHIU, WESLEY JASON | — |
| 19084065 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A CLOCK SIGNAL | NGUYEN, HAI L | — |
| 19074706 | TRIMMING PROCEDURE AND CODE REUSE FOR HIGHLY PRECISE DC-DC CONVERTERS | NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL | — |
| 19055169 | DIRECT CONVERSION OF CAPACITIVE SENSORS WITH SAMPLED VOLTAGE NOISE CANCELATION | NGUYEN, LINH V | — |
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 # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18943113 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS | GOLDEN, ANDREW J | 34d |
| 19178138 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE | CHIU, WESLEY JASON | — |
| 19020407 | DATA PROTECTION | SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | — |
| 18935075 | METHOD OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A TRANSMITTER AND A RECEIVER AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM INCLUDING A TRANSMITTER AND A RECEIVER | GAO, JING | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| STMicroelectronics | 43 |
| Deeplite Inc. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2812 | 4 |
| 2855 | 3 |
| 2899 | 3 |
| 2836 | 2 |
| 2838 | 2 |
| 2893 | 2 |
| 2824 | 2 |
| 2898 | 2 |
| 2897 | 2 |
| 2818 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19255003 | METHOD FOR CONFIGURING A MICROCONTROLLER AND CORRESPONDING MICROCONTROLLER | STMicroelectronics | GRULLON, FRANCISCO A | 2132 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 30, 2025 |
| 19197363 | CIRCUITS AND METHODS FOR DEBOUNCING SIGNALS PRODUCED BY A ROTARY ENCODER | STMicroelectronics | CHEN, SIBIN | 2836 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 02, 2025 |
| 19178138 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE | STMicroelectronics | CHIU, WESLEY JASON | 2639 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 14, 2025 |
| 19084065 | CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A CLOCK SIGNAL | STMicroelectronics | NGUYEN, HAI L | 2836 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2025 |
| 19074706 | TRIMMING PROCEDURE AND CODE REUSE FOR HIGHLY PRECISE DC-DC CONVERTERS | STMicroelectronics | NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL | 2838 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 10, 2025 |
| 19055169 | DIRECT CONVERSION OF CAPACITIVE SENSORS WITH SAMPLED VOLTAGE NOISE CANCELATION | STMicroelectronics | NGUYEN, LINH V | 2845 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2025 |
| 19020407 | DATA PROTECTION | STMicroelectronics | SHAAWAT, MAYASA A. | 2433 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 18968768 | LINEAR VOLTAGE REGULATOR | STMicroelectronics | NOVAK, PETER MICHAEL | 2838 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18958125 | PHASE CHANGE MEMORY CELL HAVING A HEATER WITH ACTIVATED RESISTANCE IN TEMPERATURE, AND IN-MEMORY COMPUTATION CIRCUIT USING SUCH A PHASE CHANGE MEMORY CELL | STMicroelectronics | PHAM, LY D | 2827 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 25, 2024 |
| 18943113 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS | STMicroelectronics | GOLDEN, ANDREW J | 1726 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 34d | Pending | Nov 11, 2024 |
| 18935075 | METHOD OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN A TRANSMITTER AND A RECEIVER AND CORRESPONDING SYSTEM INCLUDING A TRANSMITTER AND A RECEIVER | STMicroelectronics | GAO, JING | 2647 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18907804 | METHOD FOR MEASURING WINDING ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS IN BIPOLAR STEPPER MOTORS DURING HOLD CONDITION | STMicroelectronics | BOUZIANE, SAID | 2837 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 07, 2024 |
| 18903368 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR | STMicroelectronics | OJEH, NDUKA E | 2892 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 01, 2024 |
| 18894603 | OPTICAL DEVICES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING OPTICAL DEVICES | STMicroelectronics | BOOHER, ADAM W | 2872 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18887429 | METHOD FOR PROTECTING DATA STORED IN A MEMORY, AND CORRESPONDING INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | STMicroelectronics | ROLAND, CHRISTOPHER M | 2893 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 17, 2024 |
| 18886002 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY ARCHITECTURE | STMicroelectronics | CHEN, XIAOCHUN L | 2824 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18828564 | MEMS DEVICE HAVING AN IMPROVED STRESS DISTRIBUTION AND MANUFACTURING PROCESS THEREOF | STMicroelectronics | HOSSAIN, MOAZZAM | 2898 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18815356 | PROGRAMMABLE BIT-CELL BASED DISCHARGE CELL FOR READ SELF-TIME TRACKING IN SINGLE AND MULTIPORT SRAM | STMicroelectronics | NGUYEN, VAN THU T | 2824 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18812704 | NFC DEMODULATION CIRCUIT | STMicroelectronics | NGUYEN, KHIEM D | 2843 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2024 |
| 18757887 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND CORRESPONDING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | STMicroelectronics | KIELIN, ERIK J | 2814 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 28, 2024 |
| 18753409 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CONTAINING A DECOY STRUCTURE | STMicroelectronics | JAHAN, BILKIS | 2817 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18742355 | MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SENSOR ASSEMBLY AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SENSOR ASSEMBLY | STMicroelectronics | EYASSU, MARRIT | 2855 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 13, 2024 |
| 18678526 | MICROELECTROMECHANICAL GYROSCOPE WITH IMPROVED VIBRATION REJECTION | STMicroelectronics | RAEVIS, ROBERT R | 2855 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 30, 2024 |
| 18659436 | PHASE CHANGE MEMORY ELEMENT PARTICULARLY SUITABLE FOR EMBEDDED AND AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS | STMicroelectronics | YAP, DOUGLAS ANTHONY | 2899 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 09, 2024 |
| 18637865 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES | STMicroelectronics | IMTIAZ, S M SOHEL | 2812 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 17, 2024 |
| 18624320 | HEAT SINK FASTENED ON THE SUBSTRATE OF A PACKAGE OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS | STMicroelectronics | SHAMSUZZAMAN, MOHAMMED | 2897 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Apr 02, 2024 |
| 18618447 | OPTICAL PACKAGE WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING | STMicroelectronics | CHI, SUBERR L | 2893 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2024 |
| 18613746 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A MEMS TRANSDUCER DEVICE WITH THIN MEMBRANE, AND MEMS TRANSDUCER DEVICE | STMicroelectronics | VU, HUNG K | 2897 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 22, 2024 |
| 18610829 | TRANSISTOR MANUFACTURING METHOD | STMicroelectronics | WOLDEGEORGIS, ERMIAS T | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 | |
| 18597180 | WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION BETWEEN A POWER TRANSMITTER AND AN APPLIANCE | STMicroelectronics | HSIEH, PING Y | 2664 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2024 |
| 18594210 | RESISTOR | STMicroelectronics | ZABEL, ANDREW JOHN | 2818 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 04, 2024 |
| 18440173 | TIME OF FLIGHT PROCESS MONITORING | STMicroelectronics | HAUT, EVAN HARRISON | 3645 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 13, 2024 |
| 18432943 | CONTROLLED CURVATURE CORRECTION IN HIGH ACCURACY THERMAL SENSOR | STMicroelectronics | CASTELLON JR, MANUEL SALVADOR | 2855 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Feb 05, 2024 |
| 18419962 | METASURFACE ELEMENT FOR IMAGING/STRUCTURED LIGHT/DE-SCANNING | STMicroelectronics | CHILTON, CLARA GRACE | 3645 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 23, 2024 |
| 18416079 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, CORRESPONDING RIBBON, APPARATUS AND DEVICE | STMicroelectronics | DINKE, BITEW A | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2024 |
| 18389257 | FLIP CHIP QUAD FLAT NO LEADS (QFN) PACKAGE | STMicroelectronics | BOEGEL, CHEVY JACOB | 2812 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2023 |
| 18233092 | POWER LEADFRAME PACKAGE WITH REDUCED SOLDER VOIDS | STMicroelectronics | VALENZUELA, PATRICIA D | 2812 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 14d | Pending | Aug 11, 2023 |
| 18226409 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PACKAGE | STMicroelectronics | FAN, SU JYA | 2818 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 4d overdue | Pending | Jul 26, 2023 |
| 18358331 | Tensor Decomposition Rank Exploration for Neural Network Compression | Deeplite Inc. | PARK, GRACE A | 2144 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 70d | Pending | Jul 25, 2023 |
| 18223838 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND CORRESPONDING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | STMicroelectronics | BULLARD-CONNOR, GENEVIEVE GRACE | 2899 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2023 |
| 18140375 | METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, CORRESPONDING DEVICE AND SYSTEM | STMicroelectronics | CULLEN, PATRICK LAWRENCE | 2899 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 27, 2023 |
| 18094775 | CHIP CARRIER | STMicroelectronics | KIM, PAUL D | 3729 | §102 | Final Rejection | 30d | Pending | Jan 09, 2023 |
| 17847679 | PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING A VERTICAL CONDUCTION SILICON CARBIDE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND VERTICAL CONDUCTION SILICON CARBIDE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | STMicroelectronics | ENAD, CHRISTINE A | 2811 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jun 23, 2022 |
| 17845232 | PIXEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE | STMicroelectronics | ADHIKARI DAWADI, BIPANA | 2898 | §112 | Final Rejection | 12d | Pending | Jun 21, 2022 |
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Start Free Trial92.4% of resolved applications prosecuted by Crowe & Dunlevy - St were allowed, across 6,435 applications in USPTO records.
3.27 office actions per allowed application on average.
44 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 2 clients, before 43 examiners in 28 art units.
