Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
128 pending office actions • 46 clients • 124 examiners • 92 art units • 2 of 128 (2%) have an AI response strategy ready
This profile covers Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and includes 30899 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 86.19%, and the average is 3.34 office actions per allowance. The extensive record shows favorable reported allowance outcomes with repeated examination activity commonly preceding allowance.
There are 133 pending office actions, creating a substantial active workload. The scale of the portfolio makes consistent docket controls and issue tracking important for practitioners. The allowance rate and action average provide historical context for resource planning, but individual pending applications still require separate assessment of claim scope, cited art, and response strategy.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 34 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. 34 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 | 6 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 29 (23%) |
| §103 only | 30 (23%) |
| §102 only | 4 (3%) |
| §112 only | 4 (3%) |
| Double-patenting only | 2 (2%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 5 (4%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 44 (34%) |
| No statute on record | 4 (3%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANDERSON, LEE E | 2 | 45.2% | +45.2% |
| PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 2 | 80.6% | +18.0% |
| LOCKARD, JON MCCLELLAND | 2 | 74.4% | +27.4% |
| EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH | 2 | 16.4% | +36.5% |
| EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT | 1 | 79.2% | +19.2% |
| MAI, HAO D | 1 | 49.2% | +39.4% |
| MOBIN, HASANUL | 1 | 75.3% | +38.8% |
| BLANCHA, JONATHAN M | 1 | 62.8% | +10.3% |
| REFAI, SAM M | 1 | 34.9% | +6.9% |
| HALE, GLORIA M | 1 | 73.0% | +19.3% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18568209 | MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETERMINE STEP UP AND STEP DOWN OF TREATMENTS | EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH | 97d overdue |
| 18552275 | AUDIENCE LOCATION SCORING | LONG, MEREDITH A | 93d overdue |
| 17484374 | BREATH SENSING WITH REMOTE PRESSURE SENSOR | PINDERSKI, JACQUELINE M | 89d overdue |
| 18669376 | TRAVEL PLANNING USING DIGITAL ASSISTANT | VETTER, DANIEL | 87d overdue |
| 18390794 | EYE STRAIN REDUCTION IN HEAD MOUNTABLE DISPLAY | RICKEL, ALEX PARK | 85d overdue |
| 17997500 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IDENTIFY SUITABLE PATIENT SUBGROUPS FOR BIOLOGICS | KANAAN, LIZA TONY | 81d overdue |
| 17773469 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFICATION OF ASTHMA TRIGGERING CONDITIONS BASED ON MEDICAMENT DEVICE MONITORING FOR A PATENT | VANDER WOUDE, KIMBERLY ELAINE | 80d overdue |
| 17702107 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING INFLAMMATION | RAMADAN, OMAR | 70d overdue |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18568209 | MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETERMINE STEP UP AND STEP DOWN OF TREATMENTS | EVANS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH | 97d overdue |
| 19260921 | UNDERGARMENT FOR WOMEN WITH SLEEVES | HALE, GLORIA M | 3d overdue |
| 18695464 | TREATMENT OF PRURITIS EMPLOYING ANTI-IL13Ra1 ANTIBODY OR BINDING FRAGMENT THEREOF | LOCKARD, JON MCCLELLAND | 39d |
| 18695502 | METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF MODERATE TO SEVERE ATOPIC DERMATITIS | LOCKARD, JON MCCLELLAND | 40d |
| 19468561 | MOBILITY ASSISTIVE SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND RELATED METHODS | EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT | — |
| 19384705 | SCREW AND DRIVER FOR DENTAL IMPLANT APPLICATIONS | MAI, HAO D | — |
| 19473859 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING TASKS USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | MOBIN, HASANUL | — |
| 19307801 | DISPOSABLE TANK ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND METHOD OF USE | SANDERSON, LEE E | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2872 | 5 |
| 2611 | 4 |
| 3763 | 3 |
| 2617 | 3 |
| 3774 | 3 |
| 3628 | 3 |
| 1684 | 3 |
| 3622 | 3 |
| 3991 | 2 |
| 3621 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19468561 | MOBILITY ASSISTIVE SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND RELATED METHODS | Revimo Incorporated | EASTMAN, AARON ROBERT | 3673 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2026 |
| 19384705 | SCREW AND DRIVER FOR DENTAL IMPLANT APPLICATIONS | Young Innovations, Inc. | MAI, HAO D | 3772 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19473859 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING TASKS USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | Catalina Marketing Corporation | MOBIN, HASANUL | 2168 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 09, 2025 |
| 19307801 | DISPOSABLE TANK ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND METHOD OF USE | Orbis Ventures Limited | SANDERSON, LEE E | 3991 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 22, 2025 |
| 19299280 | SUCCESSIVE COLOR FIELDS THAT DISPLAY A VIRTUAL OBJECT IN ARTIFICIAL REALITY | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | BLANCHA, JONATHAN M | 2623 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 13, 2025 |
| 19150601 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-DRIVEN DIGITAL MEDIA CREATIVE PERSONALIZATION AND GENERATION USING NATURAL LANGUAGE MODELS | Catalina Marketing Corporation | REFAI, SAM M | 3621 | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2025 |
| 19269025 | DISPOSABLE TANK ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURE AND METHOD OF USE | Cue Vapor Limited | SANDERSON, LEE E | 3991 | §102§103§112DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 14, 2025 |
| 19260921 | UNDERGARMENT FOR WOMEN WITH SLEEVES | Ravden Group, LLC | HALE, GLORIA M | 3732 | DP | Final Rejection | 3d overdue | Pending | Jul 07, 2025 |
| 19228714 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPRESSING, DECOMPRESSING, AND PROCESSING DATA FOR USE BY MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | SADLER, NATHAN | 2139 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 04, 2025 |
| 19192600 | HEADSETS HAVING IMPROVED CAMERA ARRANGEMENTS AND DEPTH SENSORS, AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | LAM, VINH TANG | 2628 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 29, 2025 |
| 19188585 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TESTING UNIVERSAL SERIAL BUS DEVICES | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | PATEL, JIGAR P | 2114 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 24, 2025 |
| 19179505 | PASSIVE COOLING DEVICE FOR HEAD-WEARABLE DEVICES, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | BUI, HUNG S | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 15, 2025 |
| 19175615 | SEARCHING ON PLATFORMS | Airbnb, Inc. | SYED, FARHAN M | 2161 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2025 |
| 19072304 | TECHNIQUES FOR CONCEALED OPTICAL SENSORS AND RELATED APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | HSU, AMY R | 2638 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 06, 2025 |
| 19066271 | Integrating Applications with Dynamic Virtual Assistant Avatars | Meta Platforms, Inc. | SAMS, MICHELLE L | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19067054 | Light Emitting Diode Control Circuitry | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | YEAMAN, JAMES G | 2836 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 28, 2025 |
| 19060551 | SWITCHABLE BATTERY CELL CONFIGURATION, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 21, 2025 |
| 19057832 | STRETCHABLE VAPOR CHAMBER AND METHODS OF USING THE SAME | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | HINCAPIE SERNA, GUSTAVO A | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 19, 2025 |
| 19054650 | JOINT ASSEMBLY FOR AN EXTENDED-REALITY HEADSET, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | WILEY, DANIEL J | 3678 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 14, 2025 |
| 19039131 | WEARABLE DEVICES UTILIZING SURFACE-MOUNTED DEVICE BATTERIES | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | PINKNEY, DAWAYNE | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 28, 2025 |
| 18998825 | SYSTEM TO STREAM REAL TIME EVENTS FROM A PUBLISHER WEBPAGE TO ENABLE REAL WORLD PURCHASE BASED ATTRIBUTION | Catalina Marketing Corporation | DETWEILER, JAMES M | 3621 | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19013765 | MIXED REALITY FACIAL INTERFACE WITH INTEGRATED BIOSENSORS | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | EARLES, BRYAN E | 2625 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 19005148 | IMAGE GENERATION USING ORGANIC PROPERTIES | Shutterstock, Inc. | RICHER, AARON M | 2617 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19005209 | DETECTING SECURITY THREATS ON RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED APPLIANCES | Stairwell, Inc. | AHMED, ARHAM NMN | 2473 | §101§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 19005067 | IMAGE GENERATION WITH LEARNED SUPERVISION | Shutterstock, Inc. | BEKELE, MEKONEN T | 2699 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2024 |
| 18976808 | REMOTE REALTIME INTERACTIVE NETWORK CONFERENCING | Pharmaforceiq, Inc. | TRAN, QUOC DUC | 2691 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18955360 | SYSTEM FOR COOLING IN A HEADSET DISPLAY | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | SUL, STEPHEN SANGJIN | 2841 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18954418 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NEW VR DEVICE FORM-FACTOR | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | CHOI, WILLIAM C | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 20, 2024 |
| 18951460 | AUGMENTED-REALITY HEADSET WITH AN ELECTRONICS-HOLDING FRAME PLATE AND A FRAME BACKPLATE | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | NIGAM, NATASHA | 2872 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18948930 | INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEM INCLUDING AN ABSORBENT MATERIAL | DELL PRODUCTS, L.P. | LANE, DEVON | 3763 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 15, 2024 |
| 18947850 | ONE DIMENSIONAL KEYBOARD | Meta Platforms, Inc. | BLAUFELD, JUSTIN R | 2151 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 14, 2024 |
| 18937892 | SOFTWARE AND ALGORITHMS FOR USE IN REMOTE ASSESSMENT OF DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS | Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. | SHIN, SOO JUNG | 2667 | §102§103§112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 05, 2024 |
| 18936910 | MULTI-DEVICE THERMAL AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | PHAN, RAYMOND NGAN | 2175 | §102§103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18936860 | THERMAL ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS FOR A HEAD-WORN DEVICE, AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | CHAI, RAYMOND REI-YANG | 2845 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18935979 | BALANCED GENERATIVE IMAGE MODEL TRAINING | Shutterstock, Inc. | ISLAM, PROMOTTO TAJRIAN | 2669 | — | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 04, 2024 |
| 18924094 | Generating Proactive Reminders for Assistant Systems | Meta Platforms, Inc. | LEE, PHILIP C | 2454 | §102Other | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18924879 | OBJECT TRACKING USING A HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | CHIN, RICKY | 2424 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 23, 2024 |
| 18918524 | DIGRESSIVE LENS FOR VIRTUAL IMAGE | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | JUNG, JONATHAN Y | 2871 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 17, 2024 |
| 18913925 | WATER BARRICADE | American Louver Company | RISIC, ABIGAIL ANNE | 3671 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 11, 2024 |
| 18912470 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL HEAT TRANSFER ARCHITECTURES MANUFACTURED BY SELECTIVE PLATING | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | ZEC, FILIP | 3763 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 10, 2024 |
| 18852223 | CONVERSATIONAL DIGITAL CHARACTER BLENDING AND GENERATION | AppDirect, Inc. | NGUYEN, DAVID VAN | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2024 |
| 18892786 | Resolving a Co-Reference Based on a Multimodal User Input for Assistant Systems | Meta Platforms, Inc. | LE, HUNG D | 2161 | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 23, 2024 |
| 18891385 | ORCHESTRATING MULTI-STEP TASKS INVOLVING LANGUAGE MODELS | Airbnb, Inc. | KAZIMI, HANI M | 3691 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 20, 2024 |
| 18883896 | IN-CALL EXPERIENCE ENHANCEMENT FOR ASSISTANT SYSTEMS | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | EL-ZOOBI, MARIA | 2692 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18846253 | MERGING TEXT BLOCKS | Myscript | VU, KIEU D | 2171 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18846081 | RESCALING TEXT BLOCKS TO IMPROVE READABILITY | Myscript | HOPE, DARRIN | 2178 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18846109 | CREATING TEXT BLOCK SECTIONS | Myscript | TRAN, TUYETLIEN T | 2179 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 11, 2024 |
| 18828316 | FEATURES FOR IMPLANTS WITH A REDUCED VOLUMETRIC DENSITY OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS | Nanohive Medical LLC | WOLF, MEGAN YARNALL | 3774 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 09, 2024 |
| 18823217 | HIGH RESOLUTION ENCODING AND TRANSMISSION OF TRAFFIC INFORMATION | Sirius Xm Radio LLC | DO, TRUC M | 3658 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 87d overdue | Pending | Sep 03, 2024 |
| 18820636 | BALANCED GENERATIVE IMAGE MODEL TRAINING | Shutterstock, Inc. | CONNER, SEAN M | 2663 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 30, 2024 |
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Start Free Trial86.2% of resolved applications prosecuted by McDermott Will & Emery, LLP were allowed, across 30,899 applications in USPTO records.
3.34 office actions per allowed application on average.
128 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 46 clients, before 124 examiners in 92 art units.
