Technology areas: Communications • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
71 pending office actions • 3 clients • 64 examiners • 32 art units • 24 of 71 (34%) have an AI response strategy ready • 114 patents granted in the last 365 days
Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP - QUAL handles Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems and has 6,899 career applications. Its resolved allowance rate is 81.04%, giving the profile a recorded outcome measure across its application history.
There are 72 pending office actions, and allowed matters average 3.26 office actions. This combination distinguishes a sizable active workload from the response activity associated with resolved allowances, which can assist prosecution planning.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 15 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. 15 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 + other | 5 (7%) |
| §103 only | 38 (54%) |
| §102 only | 6 (8%) |
| §112 only | 1 (1%) |
| Double-patenting only | 1 (1%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 18 (25%) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 3 | 79.2% | +13.3% |
| JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | 2 | 83.3% | +16.3% |
| APPIAH, CHARLES NANA | 2 | 46.7% | +15.5% |
| DOROS, KAYLA RENEE | 2 | 75.0% | +8.6% |
| EDRADA, ISABELLA AMEYALI | 2 | 70.0% | +30.0% |
| MULL, FRED H | 2 | 67.8% | +15.8% |
| HALEY, JOSEPH R | 1 | 79.1% | +7.4% |
| SERAYDARYAN, HELENA H | 1 | 69.2% | +12.5% |
| KAMAL, FATIHA | 1 | — | — |
| HENNING, MATTHEW T | 1 | 71.4% | +18.1% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18588382 | NON-LINEAR FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE (FMCW)-BASED RF SENSING | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 15d overdue |
| 18587053 | LOCATION VERIFICATION | DINH, JOSEPH NGHIA | 13d |
| 18690680 | ALLOCATING RESOURCES FOR RADAR REFERENCE SIGNALS | THAWNG, MANG BOI | 28d |
| 18705391 | GROUPING OF ANTENNAS FOR POSITIONING OF A USER EQUIPMENT | EDRADA, ISABELLA AMEYALI | 33d |
| 18582443 | SLOPE SCRAMBLING FOR FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE (FMCW) BASED RF SENSING IN CELLULAR NETWORKS | GOOD, KENNETH W | 36d |
| 19000341 | MULTIPLE SENSOR PAIRING FOR ENHANCED DEVICE SECURITY | HENNING, MATTHEW T | — |
| 18967369 | INTEGRATION OF IONOSPHERIC CORRECTION FOR GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM (GNSS) POSITIONING | JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | — |
| 18862171 | HANDLING PRIVILEGES WHILE CHANGING GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS | APPIAH, CHARLES NANA | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18559533 | LOW-EARTH ORBIT (LEO) SATELLITE POSITION, VELOCITY, AND TIME (PVT) DETERMINATION FOR LEO-BASED POSITIONING | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 17d overdue |
| 18609534 | IDENTIFYING RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSMISSION TIME GAPS FOR ULTRA-WIDEBAND TRANSMISSIONS | EDRADA, ISABELLA AMEYALI | 14d |
| 18705391 | GROUPING OF ANTENNAS FOR POSITIONING OF A USER EQUIPMENT | EDRADA, ISABELLA AMEYALI | 33d |
| 18328669 | DELTA-IONOSPHERE COMPENSATED DIFFERENTIAL CARRIER PHASE (DCP) UPDATE | MULL, FRED H | 71d |
| 19394801 | DETERMINING CORRECT LOCATION IN THE PRESENCE OF GNSS SPOOFING | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | — |
| 19034384 | MONOSTATIC RADAR WITH PROGRESSIVE LENGTH TRANSMISSION | SERAYDARYAN, HELENA H | — |
| 19000341 | MULTIPLE SENSOR PAIRING FOR ENHANCED DEVICE SECURITY | HENNING, MATTHEW T | — |
| 18967369 | INTEGRATION OF IONOSPHERIC CORRECTION FOR GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM (GNSS) POSITIONING | JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | — |
| Client (Assignee) | Pending OAs |
|---|---|
| Qualcomm | 69 |
| Arriver Software LLC | 1 |
| QUALCOMM Auto Ltd. | 1 |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3648 | 13 |
| 2641 | 6 |
| 3797 | 5 |
| 3646 | 3 |
| 3657 | 3 |
| 2642 | 3 |
| 3791 | 3 |
| 2647 | 2 |
| 2645 | 2 |
| 2643 | 2 |
| App # | Title | Client | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19394801 | DETERMINING CORRECT LOCATION IN THE PRESENCE OF GNSS SPOOFING | Qualcomm Incorporated | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 3646 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 19, 2025 |
| 19385063 | FALSE WAKEUP REDUCTION FOR FINGERPRINT SENSORS | Qualcomm Incorporated | HALEY, JOSEPH R | 2621 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 10, 2025 |
| 19034384 | MONOSTATIC RADAR WITH PROGRESSIVE LENGTH TRANSMISSION | Qualcomm Incorporated | SERAYDARYAN, HELENA H | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 22, 2025 |
| 18879246 | OUT-OF-COVERAGE UE POSITIONING WITH SIDE-LINK | Qualcomm Incorporated | KAMAL, FATIHA | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 26, 2024 | |
| 19000341 | MULTIPLE SENSOR PAIRING FOR ENHANCED DEVICE SECURITY | Qualcomm Incorporated | HENNING, MATTHEW T | 2491 | §102§103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Dec 23, 2024 |
| 18967369 | INTEGRATION OF IONOSPHERIC CORRECTION FOR GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM (GNSS) POSITIONING | Qualcomm Incorporated | JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | 3648 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 03, 2024 |
| 18862171 | HANDLING PRIVILEGES WHILE CHANGING GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | APPIAH, CHARLES NANA | 2641 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 01, 2024 |
| 18932911 | SIDELINK POSITIONING ENHANCEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | LEWIS, IYONDA LATIFAH | 2647 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18917604 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SUPPORTING UNIFIED LOCATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE IN A 5G NETWORK | Qualcomm Incorporated | MILLER, SHAWN D | 2412 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 16, 2024 |
| 18915238 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RELATIVE POSITIONING OF A USER EQUIPMENT IN A VEHICLE | Qualcomm Incorporated | AHMED, MASUD | 3657 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 48d | AI Ready | Oct 14, 2024 |
| 18853837 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSIGNING AND USING PRIVILEGES TO ASSIST MANEUVERING AND TRAVEL OF VEHICLES | Qualcomm Incorporated | VETTER, DANIEL | 3628 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 03, 2024 |
| 18895256 | DETERMINATION OF COMMON AZIMUTH ANGLE WITHOUT A-PRIORI ABSOLUTE REFERENCE DIRECTION KNOWLEDGE | Qualcomm Incorporated | BRANDT, CHRISTOPHER M | 2645 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 24, 2024 |
| 18847401 | FEASIBILITY OF SENSING IN A SENSING-COMMUNICATION SYSTEM | Qualcomm Incorporated | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 3646 | §112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 16, 2024 |
| 18847210 | POSITIONING WITH RADIO AND VIDEO-BASED CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION (VCSI) FUSION | Qualcomm Incorporated | DSOUZA, JOSEPH FRANCIS A | 2632 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 13, 2024 |
| 18883129 | LOW POWER PRESENCE DETECTION IN COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT | Qualcomm Incorporated | YANG, JAMES J | 2686 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18825534 | DYNAMIC OCCUPANCY GRID FUSION WITH DIVERSE INPUTS | Qualcomm Incorporated | LI, YONGHONG | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18825645 | AUTOMATED DRIVING SOTIF VIA SIGNAL REPRESENTATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | DOROS, KAYLA RENEE | 3657 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Sep 05, 2024 |
| 18819026 | SENSOR MEASUREMENT GRID COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT | Qualcomm Incorporated | SMITH, JORDAN T | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Aug 29, 2024 |
| 18815454 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR POWER EFFICIENT POSITIONING OF A MOBILE DEVICE | Qualcomm Incorporated | GELIN, JEAN ALLAND | 2643 | §103DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 26, 2024 |
| 18795646 | TECHNIQUES FOR SIDELINK POSITIONING USING DEVICE RESOURCE INFORMATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | CHAU, PETER P | 2476 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Aug 06, 2024 |
| 18835854 | RESPONSE TIME BASED MANAGEMENT FOR SL POSITIONING RESOURCES | Qualcomm Incorporated | DONADO, FRANK E | 2641 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Aug 05, 2024 |
| 18832860 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZATION FOR SIDELINK POSITIONING AND SIDELINK COMMUNICATION SESSIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | PATEL, NIMESH | 2642 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 24, 2024 |
| 18774231 | ADAPTIVE SCHEDULING FOR INDOOR NAVIGATION USING UWB ANCHOR INFRASTRUCTURE | Qualcomm Incorporated | TOWFIGHI, AFSHAWN M | 2469 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 16, 2024 |
| 18717608 | RF SENSING FOR UE POSITIONING USING UPLINK AND DOWNLINK SIGNALS | Qualcomm Incorporated | KRUEGER, KENT K | 2474 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18717815 | ENHANCEMENTS FOR NON-TERRESTRIAL NETWORK (NTN) POSITIONING | Qualcomm Incorporated | GOINS, DAVETTA WOODS | 2689 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 07, 2024 |
| 18715657 | TIME ALIGNMENT CONFIGURATION FOR HYBRID CELLULAR AND UWB POSITIONING | Qualcomm Incorporated | KARIKARI, KWASI | 2641 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18680709 | LOCATION SERVICES BASED ON USE OF COUNTRY CODE | Qualcomm Incorporated | TROST IV, WILLIAM GEORGE | 2641 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18679044 | OBJECT SENSING USING 2D SCRAMBLED FMCW SIGNALS | Qualcomm Incorporated | GUYAH, REMASH RAJA | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | 26d | AI Ready | May 30, 2024 |
| 18676377 | ENHANCED STATE SPACE REPRESENTATION (SSR) PRECISE POSITIONING ENGINE (PPE) | Qualcomm Incorporated | HODAC, ERIC KHOI | 3648 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18713800 | CLOUD-CENTRIC DESIGN FOR HYBRID NEW RADIO (NR) AND ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) POSITIONING | Qualcomm Incorporated | SEYEDVOSOGHI, FARID | 2645 | §102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18705391 | GROUPING OF ANTENNAS FOR POSITIONING OF A USER EQUIPMENT | Qualcomm Incorporated | EDRADA, ISABELLA AMEYALI | 3648 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 33d | AI Ready | Apr 26, 2024 |
| 18700063 | RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN DATA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS | Qualcomm Incorporated | CRIGLER, RYAN ALEXANDER | 2472 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18610970 | DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION OF WI-FI MODES FOR ROUND TRIP TIME (RTT) | Qualcomm Incorporated | MADU, FAVOUR ONYINYECHI | 2646 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Mar 20, 2024 |
| 18609534 | IDENTIFYING RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSMISSION TIME GAPS FOR ULTRA-WIDEBAND TRANSMISSIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | EDRADA, ISABELLA AMEYALI | 3648 | §103 | Final Rejection | 14d | AI Ready | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18609658 | SUPPLEMENTAL UWB TRANSMISSIONS | Qualcomm Incorporated | BARRY, JUSTIN ARTHUR | 2643 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 19, 2024 |
| 18608661 | GNSS TIME ERROR DETECTION AND MITIGATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | RAYNAL, ASHLEY BROWN | 3648 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 18, 2024 |
| 18601889 | PREDICTION OF USER CHARACTERISTICS USING SENSOR SIGNALS | Qualcomm Incorporated | WESTFALL, SARAH ANN | 3791 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Mar 11, 2024 |
| 18690680 | ALLOCATING RESOURCES FOR RADAR REFERENCE SIGNALS | Qualcomm Incorporated | THAWNG, MANG BOI | 2476 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | 28d | AI Ready | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18588382 | NON-LINEAR FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE (FMCW)-BASED RF SENSING | Qualcomm Incorporated | HENSON, BRANDON JAMES | 3648 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | 15d overdue | AI Ready | Feb 27, 2024 |
| 18587053 | LOCATION VERIFICATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | DINH, JOSEPH NGHIA | 2641 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 13d | AI Ready | Feb 26, 2024 |
| 18584978 | DETERMINING A PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETER USING OPTICAL SIGNALS | Qualcomm Incorporated | MERRIAM, AARON ROGERS | 3791 | §103 | Final Rejection | 46d | AI Ready | Feb 22, 2024 |
| 18582443 | SLOPE SCRAMBLING FOR FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE (FMCW) BASED RF SENSING IN CELLULAR NETWORKS | Qualcomm Incorporated | GOOD, KENNETH W | 3648 | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | 36d | AI Ready | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18397971 | Driving Policy Layer for High-Definition (HD) Mapping Platform | Qualcomm Incorporated | CHOU, SHIEN MING | 3667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 27, 2023 |
| 18521932 | ON-DEMAND JOINT POSITIONING AND SENSING IN CELLULAR SYSTEMS | Qualcomm Incorporated | JUSTICE, MICHAEL W | 3648 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 28, 2023 |
| 18512946 | TECHNIQUES FOR ROUTE SELECTION | Qualcomm Incorporated | HOLWERDA, STEPHEN | 3656 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 17, 2023 |
| 18559533 | LOW-EARTH ORBIT (LEO) SATELLITE POSITION, VELOCITY, AND TIME (PVT) DETERMINATION FOR LEO-BASED POSITIONING | Qualcomm Incorporated | NGUYEN, CHUONG P | 3646 | §103 | Final Rejection | 17d overdue | AI Ready | Nov 07, 2023 |
| 18480831 | SENSORS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETER USING EXTERNAL PRESSURE | Qualcomm Incorporated | CHOI, YOUNHEE JEON | 3797 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 04, 2023 |
| 18469547 | SIDELINK POSITIONING AND RANGING OF MOBILE DEVICES WITH LOCATION SERVER ASSISTANCE | Qualcomm Incorporated | SHEDRICK, CHARLES TERRELL | 2646 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 18, 2023 |
| 18468141 | COVERAGE-AWARE JOINT CONFIGURATION FOR MULTI-NETWORK WIRELESS COMMUNICATION | Qualcomm Incorporated | PEREZ GUTIERREZ, RAFAEL | 2642 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | AI Ready | Sep 15, 2023 |
| 18466899 | ADVANCED DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM CONSTRAINT BASED ROUTING | Qualcomm Incorporated | ALCORN III, GEORGE A | 3662 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | AI Ready | Sep 14, 2023 |
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Start Free Trial81.0% of resolved applications prosecuted by Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP - Qual were allowed, across 6,899 applications in USPTO records.
3.26 office actions per allowed application on average.
71 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 3 clients, before 64 examiners in 32 art units.
