Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Rankin Hill & Clark LLP

25 pending office actions • 3 clients

Portfolio Summary

25
Total Pending OAs
8
Final Rejections
17
Non-Final OAs

Client Portfolio (3 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 23
Northwestern University 1
The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatusFiled
18984087 LEARNING PHYSICS-BASED INTERACTIONS FROM DEMONSTRATION Honda Motor Co., Ltd. FIGUEROA, JAIME 3656 Non-Final OA Dec 17, 2024
18978864 CONSTRAINT MANAGEMENT Honda Motor Co., Ltd. MANCHO, RONNIE M 3657 Non-Final OA Dec 12, 2024
18954334 MANIPULATION TASK SOLVER Honda Motor Co., Ltd. KENIRY, HEATHER J 3657 Non-Final OA Nov 20, 2024
18948157 LEARNING PERCEIVED PREFERENCES IN HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTIONS (HRI) Honda Motor Co., Ltd. O'MALLEY, JOHN MARTIN 3658 Non-Final OA Nov 14, 2024
18914929 KERNEL-BASED ERGODIC SEARCH Northwestern University KARWAN, SIHAR A 3658 Non-Final OA Oct 14, 2024
18826116 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBUST MULTI-VIEW IMAGE TRANSLATION FOR ROBOTICS Honda Motor Co., Ltd. LI, TRACY Y 2487 Final Rejection Sep 05, 2024
18617570 TRAJECTORY PLANNING FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE WITH PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION Honda Motor Co., Ltd. PARK, KYLE S 3666 Non-Final OA Mar 26, 2024
18615816 FRONT SUBFRAME MOUNTED RECOVERY HOOK Honda Motor Co., Ltd. BRITTMAN-ALABI, FELICIA LUCILLE 3611 Non-Final OA Mar 25, 2024
18442819 REMOVABLE WHEEL ASSEMBLY AND METHOD Honda Motor Co., Ltd. COMINO, EVA L 3615 Non-Final OA Feb 15, 2024
18231665 NAVIGATION BASED ON INTERNAL STATE INFERENCE AND INTERACTIVITY ESTIMATION The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University TSUI, WILSON W 2172 Non-Final OA Aug 08, 2023
18328407 ADAPTIVE DRIVING STYLE Honda Motor Co., Ltd. VANWORMER, SKYLAR K 2146 Non-Final OA Jun 02, 2023
18323027 CAUSAL GRAPH CHAIN REASONING PREDICTIONS Honda Motor Co., Ltd. CAIADO, ANTONIO J 2164 Non-Final OA May 24, 2023
18311024 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUOTACTILE OBJECT POSE ESTIMATION WITH SHAPE COMPLETION Honda Motor Co., Ltd. ESQUINO, CALEB LOGAN 2677 Non-Final OA May 02, 2023
18187498 HOLD-TOGETHER ASSEMBLY AND METHOD Honda Motor Co., Ltd. SAETHER, FLEMMING 3675 Final Rejection Mar 21, 2023
18185458 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OWNERSHIP DETERMINATION Honda Motor Co., Ltd. SULLIVAN, THOMAS J 3689 Final Rejection Mar 17, 2023
18181103 GENERALIZABLE INSTRUCTION FOLLOWING WITH PRE-TRAINED LANGUAGE AND GROUNDING MODELS Honda Motor Co., Ltd. CHAVEZ, RODRIGO A 2658 Non-Final OA Mar 09, 2023
18181136 REMOVABLE COUPLING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COUPLNG PANELS Honda Motor Co., Ltd. FERGUSON, MICHAEL P 3619 Final Rejection Mar 09, 2023
18090967 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING IN HAND ROBOTICS DEXTEROUS MANIPULATION OF OBJECTS Honda Motor Co., Ltd. LAROSE, RENEE MARIE 3657 Final Rejection Dec 29, 2022
18087541 FUEL CELL POWER PLANT VOLTAGE CHANNEL Honda Motor Co., Ltd. WANG, PIN JAN 1717 Non-Final OA Dec 22, 2022
18087444 FUEL CELL POWER PLANT Honda Motor Co., Ltd. MERKLING, MATTHEW J 1725 Non-Final OA Dec 22, 2022
17972854 PROPRIOCEPTIVE LEARNING Honda Motor Co., Ltd. NILSSON, ERIC 2151 Non-Final OA Oct 25, 2022
17966374 ENERGY MANAGEMENT Honda Motor Co., Ltd. FOLLANSBEE, YVONNE TRANG 2117 Non-Final OA Oct 14, 2022
17869426 PROFILE MODELING Honda Motor Co., Ltd. SITIRICHE, LUIS A 2126 Final Rejection Jul 20, 2022
17555176 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A MULTI-VEHICLE CHARGING STATION Honda Motor Co., Ltd. JEPPSON, PAMELA J 2859 Final Rejection Dec 17, 2021
17319853 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF VEHICLE DESIGN WITH CONTROLLED PROCESSING OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION Honda Motor Co., Ltd. GIRI, PURSOTTAM 2186 Final Rejection May 13, 2021

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