Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
16 pending office actions • 1 client • 15 examiners • 9 art units • 0 of 16 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
QUANTINUUM & ALSTON & BIRD LLP reports 16 pending office actions in Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics and 23963 career applications. The profile combines a defined active workload with a very large application record.
Its resolved allowance rate is 83.59%, and the average is 3.83 office actions per allowance. The allowance rate supplies a reported historical outcome, while the office-action average describes examination activity for allowed matters. Practitioners can weigh those measures against the current pending workload when reviewing both active needs and historical prosecution characteristics.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 2 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
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 |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 5 (31%) |
| §112 only | 1 (6%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (6%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 9 (56%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STOFFA, WYATT A | 2 | 79.3% | +22.3% |
| JONES, JENNIFER ANN | 1 | 66.7% | +23.4% |
| STARK, JARRETT J | 1 | 70.4% | +11.0% |
| MCCORMACK, JASON L | 1 | 84.7% | +8.1% |
| PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 1 | 65.1% | +27.1% |
| LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y | 1 | 77.7% | +1.5% |
| MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | 1 | 77.4% | +18.4% |
| TRAN, TAN H | 1 | 61.3% | +32.3% |
| GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 1 | 80.3% | +24.1% |
| LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1 | 56.4% | +19.8% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18774087 | DETERMINING SPECIES ORDER OF A CONFINED MULTI-SPECIES OBJECT CRYSTAL | MCCORMACK, JASON L | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18468892 | CONDITIONAL OPERATIONS IN QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS USING BROADCASTED CONTROL VOLTAGE SIGNALS | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 10d overdue |
| 18498479 | METHOD OF APPLYING A DIELECTRIC COATING ON A COMPONENT OF AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 27d |
| 18946375 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR METASURFACE DESIGN | JONES, JENNIFER ANN | — |
| 18753040 | OPTICAL BENCH SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OPTICAL PROPERTY-CONTROLLED BEAMS TO ARRAY OF TARGET LOCATIONS | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | — |
| 18605129 | LASER PHASE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y | — |
| 18527998 | HYBRID ARCHITECTURE FOR QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| 18475479 | OPTICS-INTEGRATED CONFINEMENT APPARATUS SYSTEM | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| 18451939 | CHIP INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL TOOL | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18498479 | METHOD OF APPLYING A DIELECTRIC COATING ON A COMPONENT OF AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 27d |
| 18946375 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR METASURFACE DESIGN | JONES, JENNIFER ANN | — |
| 18888903 | INTEGRATION AND CO-PACKAGING OF CONFINEMENT APPARATUS AND APPLICATION-SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (ASIC) SUBSYSTEM | STARK, JARRETT J | — |
| 18753040 | OPTICAL BENCH SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OPTICAL PROPERTY-CONTROLLED BEAMS TO ARRAY OF TARGET LOCATIONS | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | — |
| 18738398 | TEMPORARILY CHANGING THE QUANTIZATION FIELD OF AN ATOMIC OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | STOFFA, WYATT A | — |
| 18404144 | QUANTUM COMPUTER PHASE TRACKING AND CORRECTION | MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | — |
| 18391773 | FOUR-TONE PHASE INSENSITIVE GEOMETRY FOR MØLMER-SØRENSEN INTERACTION WITH CONFINED QUANTUM OBJECTS | TRAN, TAN H | — |
| 18527998 | HYBRID ARCHITECTURE FOR QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Quantinuum LLC | 16 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2881 | 6 |
| 2872 | 2 |
| 2898 | 1 |
| 3991 | 1 |
| 2144 | 1 |
| 1717 | 1 |
| 2817 | 1 |
| 3642 | 1 |
| 2129 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18946375 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR METASURFACE DESIGN | Quantinuum LLC | JONES, JENNIFER ANN | 2872 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 13, 2024 |
| 18888903 | INTEGRATION AND CO-PACKAGING OF CONFINEMENT APPARATUS AND APPLICATION-SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (ASIC) SUBSYSTEM | Quantinuum LLC | STARK, JARRETT J | 2898 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2024 |
| 18774087 | DETERMINING SPECIES ORDER OF A CONFINED MULTI-SPECIES OBJECT CRYSTAL | Quantinuum LLC | MCCORMACK, JASON L | 2881 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18753040 | OPTICAL BENCH SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING OPTICAL PROPERTY-CONTROLLED BEAMS TO ARRAY OF TARGET LOCATIONS | Quantinuum LLC | PASKO, NICHOLAS R | 2872 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 25, 2024 |
| 18738398 | TEMPORARILY CHANGING THE QUANTIZATION FIELD OF AN ATOMIC OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | Quantinuum LLC | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 10, 2024 |
| 18605129 | LASER PHASE NOISE CONTROL SYSTEMS AND METHODS | Quantinuum LLC | LEUNG, CHRISTINA Y | 3991 | §102§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 14, 2024 |
| 18404144 | QUANTUM COMPUTER PHASE TRACKING AND CORRECTION | Quantinuum LLC | MCINTOSH, ANDREW T | 2144 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 04, 2024 |
| 18391773 | FOUR-TONE PHASE INSENSITIVE GEOMETRY FOR MØLMER-SØRENSEN INTERACTION WITH CONFINED QUANTUM OBJECTS | Quantinuum LLC | TRAN, TAN H | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 | |
| 18527998 | HYBRID ARCHITECTURE FOR QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS | Quantinuum LLC | GASSEN, CHRISTOPHER J | 2881 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2023 |
| 18498479 | METHOD OF APPLYING A DIELECTRIC COATING ON A COMPONENT OF AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE | Quantinuum LLC | LAW, NGA LEUNG V | 1717 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 27d | Pending | Oct 31, 2023 |
| 18475479 | OPTICS-INTEGRATED CONFINEMENT APPARATUS SYSTEM | Quantinuum LLC | STOFFA, WYATT A | 2881 | §102§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 27, 2023 |
| 18468892 | CONDITIONAL OPERATIONS IN QUANTUM OBJECT CONFINEMENT APPARATUS USING BROADCASTED CONTROL VOLTAGE SIGNALS | Quantinuum LLC | OSENBAUGH-STEWART, ELIZA W | 2881 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 10d overdue | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18456872 | LOW LOSS SILICON NITRIDE AND WAVEGUIDES COMPRISING LOW LOSS SILICON NITRIDE | Quantinuum LLC | FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN | 2817 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 28, 2023 |
| 18451939 | CHIP INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL TOOL | Quantinuum LLC | RODDEN, JOSHUA E | 3642 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 18, 2023 |
| 18339693 | Machine-Learning Based Quantum Noise Decoder | Quantinuum LLC | KASSIM, IMAD MUTEE | 2129 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 18190496 | ACTIVE NANO-PHOTONICS FOR TRAPPED PARTICLE INTERACTION | Quantinuum LLC | SMITH, DAVID E | 2881 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 27, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial83.6% of resolved applications prosecuted by Quantinuum & Alston & Bird LLP were allowed, across 23,963 applications in USPTO records.
3.83 office actions per allowed application on average.
16 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 1 client, before 15 examiners in 9 art units.
