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Last updated: April 19, 2026

Naval Research Laboratory

33 pending office actions • 7 clients

Portfolio Summary

33
Total Pending OAs
9
Final Rejections
24
Non-Final OAs

Client Portfolio (7 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
The United States Government (Department of the Navy) 27
The United States Government (Department of the Navy) 1
The United States Government (Department of the Navy) 1
The United States Government (Department of the Navy) 1
The United States Government (Department of the Navy) 1
The United States Government (Department of the Navy) 1
The United States Government (Department of the Navy) 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
18763555 Untitled The United States Government (Department of the Navy) ELNAKIB, AHMED 2834 Non-Final OA
18750592 NANOPARTICLE (NP)-ENHANCED EXPRESSION OF AQUAPORIN-4 CHANNELS AND WATER TRANSPORT IN HUMAN ASTROCYTES The United States Government (Department of the Navy) ALLEY, GENEVIEVE S 1617 Non-Final OA Jun 21, 2024
18666713 Deep Regularized Compound Gaussian Network The United States Government (Department of the Navy) SHUI, MING 2663 Non-Final OA May 16, 2024
18630180 COMPLEX SOIL ROTATIONAL PENETROMETER DEVICE The United States Government (Department of the Navy) WALSH, RYAN D 2852 Non-Final OA Apr 09, 2024
18599563 Deep Eutectic Solvent Stabilized Enzyme-Based Electrochemical Assay Probes for Use in the Field The United States Government (Department of the Navy) BOWERS, ERIN M 1653 Non-Final OA Mar 08, 2024
18441922 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR AN AUTONOMOUSLY TUNABLE INTERFERENCE TRACKING FILTER The United States Government (Department of the Navy) SOROWAR, GOLAM 2641 Non-Final OA Feb 14, 2024
18419658 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GROWING DISCRETE ULTRALONG CYLINDRICAL SP2 CARBON STRUCTURES The United States Government (Department of the Navy) VINEIS, FRANK J 1781 Non-Final OA Jan 23, 2024
18538614 OPTICAL DEVICES CONFIGURED TO CONTROL A SPACING AND/OR PRESSURE BETWEEN AN OPTICAL ELEMENT AND A SHIFTER AND RELATED METHODS The United States Government (Department of the Navy) WONG, TINA MEI SENG 2874 Non-Final OA Dec 13, 2023
18535259 QW-QD LED With Suppressed Auger Recombination The United States Government (Department of the Navy) ASSOUMAN, HERVE-LOUIS Y 2812 Non-Final OA Dec 11, 2023
18530442 High-Temperature Material Processing In The Absence Of Hydrogen The United States Government (Department of the Navy) RUCKER, BASEEMAH QADEER 2817 Non-Final OA Dec 06, 2023
18509355 Quantum Dot-Enrichment of CRISPR-Associated (Cas) Proteins for Environmental RNA Enrichment The United States Government (Department of the Navy) YU, TIAN NMN 1681 Non-Final OA Nov 15, 2023
18380797 HIGH STRENGTH CERAMICS WITH NOVEL FRACTURE MODE The United States Government (Department of the Navy) BEHRENS JR., ANDRES E 1741 Final Rejection Oct 17, 2023
18487327 NANO-CRYSTALLINE REFRACTORY METAL CARBIDES, BORIDES OR NITRIDES WITH HOMOGENEOUSLY DISPERSED INCLUSIONS The United States Government (Department of the Navy) PATEL, RONAK C 1788 Non-Final OA Oct 16, 2023
18374796 Fluorescence Turn-On Detection of Nitric Oxide Free Radical Using a Simple Semiconducting Nanocrystal (QD) and Ferric Dithiocarbamate Complex The United States Government (Department of the Navy) BERA, HENA RAKESHKUMAR 1798 Non-Final OA Sep 29, 2023
18471664 System and Method for Coupled Ocean-Acoustic Data Assimilation The United States Government (Department of the Navy) SATANOVSKY, ALEXANDER 2857 Non-Final OA Sep 21, 2023
18241559 GRAFTING SORBENT MOIETIES INTO RIGID SCAFFOLDS The United States Government (Department of the Navy) MCCAIG, BRIAN A 1772 Non-Final OA Sep 01, 2023
18229933 Improved Production of Melanin in Vibirio Natriegens The United States Government (Department of the Navy) MOEHLMAN, ANDREW TERRY 1655 Final Rejection Aug 03, 2023
18354764 CROSS-LINKED ORGANOSILICON NETWORKS THAT DEGRADE WITH FLUORIDE SALTS The United States Government (Department of the Navy) ZIMMER, MARC S 1765 Non-Final OA Jul 19, 2023
18346973 Quantum Dot-Nucleotide Based Ratiometric Fluorescent Molecular Beacon for Quantitative CRISPR/Cas Activity Detection The United States Government (Department of the Navy) HANEY, AMANDA MARIE 1682 Non-Final OA Jul 05, 2023
18213933 Ammonium Borophosphate as a Proton Conducting Solid Electrolyte for Solid Acid Fuel Cells The United States Government (Department of the Navy) PILLAY, DEVINA 1726 Non-Final OA Jun 26, 2023
18203189 Quantum Dot-Peptide PNA-DNA Complexes as a Platform Reporter System for Multiplexed Detection in Cell-Free Transcription Translation-Based Biosensors The United States Government (Department of the Navy) GUSSOW, ANNE 1683 Non-Final OA May 30, 2023
18141586 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR REDUCING ENGINE NOISE The United States Government (Department of the Navy) KANG, EDWIN G 3741 Final Rejection May 01, 2023
18136256 Brillouin Sensing Using Polarization Pulling The United States Government (Department of the Navy) SCHNASE, PAUL DANIEL 2877 Non-Final OA Apr 18, 2023
18129848 Method of inducing exchange bias by single step irradiation in a single FeRh thin film for use in magnetic tunnel junctions The United States Government (Department of the Navy) MILLER, JAMI VALENTINE 2818 Non-Final OA Apr 01, 2023
18113285 Nano-thin BixOySez low-temperature oxygen transporter membrane for oxygen transport, separation, and two-dimensional (2D) material manipulation The United States Government (Department of the Navy) DAVIS, SHENG HAN 1732 Final Rejection Feb 23, 2023
18066047 DYNAMIC FIELD CONDITIONING OF POLYMER NANO-STRUCTURE The United States Government (Department of the Navy) BROOKS, KREGG T 1764 Non-Final OA Dec 14, 2022
17938681 NOZZLE ASSEMBLY FOR COLD SPRAY The United States Government (Department of the Navy) CERNOCH, STEVEN MICHAEL 3752 Final Rejection Oct 07, 2022
17935083 WEAKLY COUPLED ABSORBER TO PLASMONIC DEVICE The United States Government (Department of the Navy) CARLSON, JOSHUA MICHAEL 2877 Final Rejection Sep 23, 2022
17950065 ROTATING REFLECTIVE BARCODES ENCODING TIME-VARYING INFORMATION IN REFLECTION PATTERNS SCANNED BY LIDAR SYSTEMS The United States Government (Department of the Navy) DABBI, JYOTSNA V 2872 Non-Final OA Sep 21, 2022
17714224 Lithographic masking for spatially localized biochemical stimulus delivery The United States Government (Department of the Navy) MOSS, NATALIE M 1653 Final Rejection Apr 06, 2022
17712989 Additive Manufacturing of a Packed Bed Bioreactor The United States Government (Department of the Navy) ESPERON, NATHAN GREGORY 1799 Final Rejection Apr 04, 2022
17705781 Multi-Enzyme Nanoparticle-Assisted Stable Isotope Incorporation Into Small Molecules by Channeling The United States Government (Department of the Navy) DONOHUE, SEAN R 1618 Non-Final OA Mar 28, 2022
17512929 Molecularly doped nanodiamond The United States Government (Department of the Navy) GREGORIO, GUINEVER S 1732 Final Rejection Oct 28, 2021

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