Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18770975 | MULTI-PORT MEDIA ACCESS CHANNEL (MAC) WITH FLEXIBLE DATA-PATH WIDTH | July 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18660954 | MEMORY BANK PROTECTION | May 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18652714 | METHODS FOR ERROR COUNT REPORTING WITH SCALED ERROR COUNT INFORMATION, AND MEMORY DEVICES EMPLOYING THE SAME | May 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18651185 | Data Processing Method and Device | April 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18649379 | CODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS | April 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18621069 | METHOD FOR ACCESSING FLASH MEMORY MODULE AND ASSOCIATED FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | March 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18618965 | ON-SSD ERASURE CODING WITH UNI-DIRECTIONAL COMMANDS | March 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18617114 | BASE STATION, TERMINAL, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | March 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18604227 | ERROR CORRECTION MEMORY DEVICE WITH FAST DATA ACCESS | March 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18592287 | SELF-FUNCTIONAL DETECTION SYSTEM FOR TAP CONTROLLER AND METHOD THEREOF | February 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18584385 | MEMORY DIE FAULT DETECTION USING A CALIBRATION PIN | February 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18438993 | TEST SYSTEM | February 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18435652 | DYNAMIC CONTROL OF ERROR MANAGEMENT AND SIGNALING | February 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18431279 | REDUCING READ ERROR HANDLING OPERATIONS DURING POWER UP OF A MEMORY DEVICE | February 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18428471 | Configurable Testing and Repair System for Non-Volatile Memory | January 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18420486 | INFRASTRUCTURE BACKUP AND RECOVERY | January 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18416967 | DATA RECOVERY USING ORDERED DATA REQUESTS | January 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18415632 | BURST CORRECTION REED SOLOMON DECODING FOR MEMORY APPLICATIONS | January 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18415634 | DECODER FOR BURST CORRECTION READ SOLOMON DECODING FOR MEMORY APPLICATIONS | January 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18410939 | MIN-SUM DECODING FOR IRREGULAR LOW-DENSITY PARITY CHECK CODES IN MEMORY DEVICES | January 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18397399 | TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING MEMORY EXCEPTION HANDLING | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18397612 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTION STORAGE OF BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTION DATA BASED ON ERASURE CODE | December 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18543737 | MEMORY SYSTEM, METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | December 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18537401 | MEMORY DEVICE PPR FAILURE HANDLING SYSTEM | December 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18533655 | MINIMIZING REDUNDANCY FOR STUCK BIT CODING | December 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18565276 | ERROR VECTOR MAGNITUDE MEASUREMENT METHOD, TRANSMITTER AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | November 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18513246 | MEMORY SYSTEM WITH CACHED MEMORY MODULE OPERATIONS | November 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18506184 | MEMORY CONTROLLER, STORAGE DEVICE, AND OPERATING METHOD OF STORAGE DEVICE | November 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18386641 | Error Checking For Systolic Array Computation | November 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18498196 | BUTTERFLY NETWORK ON LOAD DATA RETURN | October 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18497131 | LDPC CODE MATRICES | October 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18489308 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DATA TRANSFERRING METHOD FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | October 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18379057 | COORDINATED ERROR CORRECTION | October 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 13 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18481796 | QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTION | October 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18481359 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING RECEIVE DATA IN A RECEIVE DATA PATH INCLUDING PARALLEL FEC DECODING | October 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18373219 | MEMORY MODULE WITH DEDICATED REPAIR DEVICES | September 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18372153 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM | September 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18473972 | ERROR CORRECTION METHOD, MEMORY SYSTEM AND MEMORY CONTROLLER | September 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18472751 | STORAGE DEVICE EXECUTING READ RETRY OPERATION BASED ON READ RETRY SEQUENCE KEY AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE STORAGE DEVICE | September 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18472682 | ERROR CORRECTION CIRCUIT CAPABLE OF AUTOMATICALLY COMPENSATING FOR CLOCK MARGIN AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | September 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18471307 | CONTROLLER, MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD OF MEMORY SYSTEM | September 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18471123 | LABELING FOR HIGHER ORDER MODULATION POLAR CODES | September 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18369540 | TARGETED COMMAND/ADDRESS PARITY LOW LIFT | September 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18467782 | ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | September 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18460046 | COMMAND ADDRESS CONTROL CIRCUIT, AND SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS AND SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEM INCLUDING THE COMMAND ADDRESS CONTROL CIRCUIT | September 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18459149 | PROCESSOR DEBUGGING OVER AN INTERCONNECT FABRIC | August 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18449213 | WEIGHTED NON-VOLATILE STORAGE MEDIA SCANS | August 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18232105 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE CONFIGURED FOR USE WITH A GENERATIVE-ADVERSARIAL-NETWORK (GAN) | August 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18229981 | MEMORY QUEUE OPERATIONS TO INCREASE THROUGHPUT IN AN ATE SYSTEM | August 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18364568 | PERFORMING SCAN DATA TRANSFER INSIDE MULTI-DIE PACKAGE WITH SERDES FUNCTIONALITY | August 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18226785 | ERROR DETECTION METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS | July 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18226201 | TEST CONTROLLER ENABLING A SNAPSHOT RESTORE AND RESUME OPERATION WITHIN A DEVICE UNDER TEST | July 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18357336 | MEMORY AND OPERATION METHOD OF MEMORY | July 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18357790 | Codeword Interleaving Over Magnetic Media Surfaces | July 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18261810 | INDICATING A RESOURCE SET FOR UPLINK REPETITION | July 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18222535 | TEST-TIME OPTIMIZATION WITH FEW SLOW SCAN PADS | July 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18352142 | METHODS AND APPARATUS OF HARQ OPERATION FOR TRANSMISSION OF MULTICAST BROADCAST SERVICE | July 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18219954 | DEVICES AND METHOD FOR GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF AN IMPAIRMENT OF A DEMODULATED SIGNAL BASED ON MASK TESTING | July 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18348876 | Efficient Redundant Array Of Independent Disks (RAID) Stripe Parity Calculations | July 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18348625 | VIRTUALIZATION OF COMPLEX NETWORKED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS | July 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18345449 | DEVICE TRIMMING VIA DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS | June 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18215796 | Interface circuit and memory controller | June 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18215181 | Interface circuit, memory controller and method for calibrating signal processing devices in an interface circuit | June 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18341807 | Efficient estimation of threshold voltage distributions in a nonvolatile memory | June 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18213728 | BIT AND SIGNAL LEVEL MAPPING | June 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18209613 | Methods and Systems for Raid Protection in Zoned Solid-State Drives | June 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18255555 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING BIT ERROR PROBABILITY USING ERROR RATE RATIO OF FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION WORD | June 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18325370 | SOFT ERROR DETECTION AND CORRECTION FOR DATA STORAGE DEVICES | May 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18324226 | MEMORY SYSTEM | May 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18200439 | METHODS FOR ERROR COUNT REPORTING WITH SCALED ERROR COUNT INFORMATION, AND MEMORY DEVICES EMPLOYING THE SAME | May 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18314374 | AUTHENTICATED STATELESS MOUNT STRING FOR A DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM | May 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18313669 | METHOD TO INCREASE THE USABLE WORD WIDTH OF A MEMORY PROVIDING AN ERROR CORRECTION SCHEME | May 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18309014 | ETHERNET CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS | April 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18139440 | SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP FOR CORRECTING ALIGNED ERROR, SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEM FOR CORRECTING ALIGNED ERROR, AND METHOD FOR CORRECTING ALIGNED ERROR | April 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18305497 | MEMORY INTEGRITY CHECK | April 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18299532 | TRACKING HOST-PROVIDED METADATA IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | April 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 21 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18129585 | IMPRINT MANAGEMENT FOR MEMORY | March 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18191985 | Systems, Methods, and Computer Readable Media Providing Arbitrary Sizing of Data Extents | March 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18186808 | METHOD FOR SIGNALING MEMORY REQUIREMENTS IN ATSC3.0 WHEN OUT-OF-ORDER DATA IS BEING UTILIZED | March 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18184872 | DEEP NEURAL NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION FOR SOFT DECODING OF BCH CODE | March 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18184395 | DATA RECOVERY BASED ON PARITY DATA IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | March 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 13 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18121062 | ERROR RATES FOR MEMORY WITH BUILT IN ERROR CORRECTION AND DETECTION | March 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18183679 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | March 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18181212 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | March 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18117555 | MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM USING PARTIAL SUPERBLOCKS | March 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18179235 | FAILURE ANALYSIS FOR UNCORRECTABLE ERROR EVENTS | March 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18174230 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM | February 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18173510 | Systems and Methods for Adjusting Input-Output Impedance for I/O Interfaces | February 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18112654 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION DEVICE, RECEPTION METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND PROGRAM | February 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18022215 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED BELIEF PROPAGATION BASED DECODING | February 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18168888 | CONSTRUCTING METHOD, PROCESSING DEVICE, STORAGE MEDIUM AND CODING METHOD | February 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18167768 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR FORCED ERROR CHECK AND SCRUB READOUTS | February 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 16 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18165272 | Quantum Error-Correction in Microwave Integrated Quantum Circuits | February 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18040299 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING CONVERSION RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BLOCK READING AND PAGE READING IN FLASH MEMORY CHIP | February 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18040247 | TERMINAL, BASE STATION, AND COMMUNICATION METHOD | February 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18005046 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND MEMORY OPERATION | January 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18152017 | BI-DIRECTIONAL SCAN FLIP-FLOP CIRCUIT AND METHOD | January 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18094068 | TECHNIQUES FOR EMPLOYING POLAR CODE IN CONNECTION WITH NR (NEW RADIO) | January 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18094065 | QUANTUM ALGORITHMS OF LOGICAL QUBITS IN A QUANTUM SYSTEM WITH PHYSICAL QUIBITS ALLOWING ERROR CORRECTION AND INCREASED INTERQUBIT-CONNECTIVITY | January 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18089803 | METHOD, DETECTION CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR DETECTING TIMING SEQUENCE OF SERIALIZER | December 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner MCMAHON, DANIEL F.
Filing a Notice of Appeal can sometimes lead to allowance even before the appeal is fully briefed or decided by the PTAB. This occurs when the examiner or their supervisor reconsiders the rejection during the mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) after the appeal is filed.
In this dataset, 100.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner MCMAHON, DANIEL F works in Art Unit 2111 and has examined 595 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 97.3%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 18 months.
Examiner MCMAHON, DANIEL F's allowance rate of 97.3% places them in the 92% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by MCMAHON, DANIEL F receive 1.02 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 13% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by MCMAHON, DANIEL F is 18 months. This places the examiner in the 94% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +0.4% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by MCMAHON, DANIEL F. This interview benefit is in the 13% percentile among all examiners. Note: Interviews show limited statistical benefit with this examiner compared to others, though they may still be valuable for clarifying issues.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 42.7% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 94% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. If you receive a final rejection, filing an RCE with substantive amendments or arguments has a strong likelihood of success.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 57.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 80% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner is highly receptive to after-final amendments compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 714.12, after-final amendments may be entered "under justifiable circumstances." Consider filing after-final amendments with a clear showing of allowability rather than immediately filing an RCE, as this examiner frequently enters such amendments.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 100.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 69% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. If you have strong arguments, a PAC request may result in favorable reconsideration.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 87% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 25.0% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1207.01, all appeals must go through a mandatory appeal conference. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration even before you file an Appeal Brief.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 40.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 38% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show below-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.7% of allowed cases (in the 63% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments more often than average to place applications in condition for allowance (MPEP § 1302.04).
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 8% percentile). This examiner rarely issues Quayle actions compared to other examiners. Allowances typically come directly without a separate action for formal matters.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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