Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18941954 | INITIALIZING MEMORY SYSTEMS | November 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18794937 | INTERCONNECT BASED ADDRESS MAPPING FOR IMPROVED RELIABILITY | August 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18770926 | BLOCK CACHING WITH QUEUE IDENTIFIERS | July 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18771436 | READ DISTURB DETECTION IN A MEMORY SYSTEM | July 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18771053 | TECHNIQUES FOR COMPRESSION AND MANAGEMENT OF METADATA | July 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18767846 | RESERVED MEMORY SPACE IN COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE DEVICES | July 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18766226 | MEMORY SYSTEMS AND OPERATION METHODS THEREOF AND STORAGE DEVICES AND OPERATION METHODS THEREOF | July 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18759701 | MEMORY APPLIANCE SHARING MEMORY BETWEEN MULTIPLE HOSTS | June 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18747497 | MEMORY WITH WRITE ADDRESS DELAY CIRCUIT | June 2024 | December 2025 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18741701 | HARDWARE REVOCATION ENGINE FOR TEMPORAL MEMORY SAFETY | June 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18736977 | Data Storage Device and Method for Writing Updates to a Host Memory Buffer Using Assistance from a Host | June 2024 | January 2026 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18672394 | NAND PAGE BUFFER BASED SECURITY OPERATIONS | May 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18646668 | MEMORY WITH EFFICIENT STORAGE OF EVENT LOG DATA | April 2024 | October 2025 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18645472 | Context-Aware Firmware-Mapped Host Memory Buffer (HMB) Management System | April 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18645047 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR PROVIDING APPEND-ONLY CACHES | April 2024 | December 2025 | Abandon | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18642936 | MEMORY DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT | April 2024 | August 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18643514 | LOGICAL-TO-PHYSICAL TABLE COMPRESSION USING AN EXCEPTION LIST AND A LOGICAL TREE | April 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18640310 | CONTROL METHOD FOR READING OPERATION OF MEMORY DEVICE | April 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18639821 | SUPERBLOCK-BASED WRITE MANAGEMENT IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICES | April 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18630988 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS FOR CACHE OPERATION IN STORAGE DEVICES | April 2024 | February 2026 | Allow | 22 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18592952 | IN-PLACE MEMORY COPY DURING REMOTE DATA TRANSFER IN HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTE ENVIRONMENT | March 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18593165 | OPEN BLOCK MANAGEMENT IN MEMORY DEVICES | March 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18592444 | MEMORY DEVICE, FLASH MEMORY CONTROLLER AND ASSOCIATED CONTROL METHOD | February 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18585210 | MEMORY DEVICE, STORAGE MODULE, HOST AND OPERATING METHODS FOR PERFORMING A REFRESH OPERATION BASED ON TEMPERATURE INFORMATION | February 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18441095 | Data Storage Device and Method for Managing Memory Maintenance Operations | February 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18419630 | Decompression Engine Supporting Large Match Offsets using External Memory | January 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18414870 | EFFICIENT MEMORY MANAGEMENT FOR HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTING | January 2024 | July 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18394275 | CONSISTENT HASHING WITH SEQUENTIAL INDEXING | December 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18536675 | CACHE OPTIMIZATION FOR A REMOTE STORAGE DEVICE | December 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 27 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18508356 | CACHE SIZE CHANGE | November 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18490588 | On-demand Memory Allocation | October 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18485719 | METHOD OF OPERATING MEMORY SYSTEM AND MEMORY SYSTEM PERFORMING THE SAME | October 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18485050 | Erase Type Detection Mechanism | October 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18377820 | Shortened Commands To Reduce Data Transmission | October 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18456770 | METHOD AND MEMORY DEVICE FOR ATOMIC PROCESSING OF FUSED COMMANDS | August 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18279029 | HARDWARE ASSISTED MEMORY ACCESS TRACKING | August 2023 | August 2025 | Abandon | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18235801 | EFFICIENT CACHE EVICTION AND INSERTIONS FOR SUSTAINED STEADY STATE PERFORMANCE | August 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18451698 | Dynamic Cache Resource Allocation for Quality of Service and System Power Reduction | August 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18447770 | Method and Device for Secure Data Transfer and Storage | August 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18228308 | DATA STORAGE SYSTEM EMPLOYING GREEN STORAGE TIER FOR ENERGY SAVINGS | July 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18362015 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO REDUCE BANK PRESSURE USING AGGRESSIVE WRITE MERGING | July 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18359755 | Hierarchical Store Queue Circuit | July 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18358782 | OBJECT SEALING FOR CACHE COHERENCY FOR SHARED MEMORY | July 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18225771 | Data Storage Device and Method for Improving Asynchronous Independent Plane Read (AIPR) Utilization | July 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18223144 | Data Storage Device and Method for Dynamic Controller Memory Buffer Allocation | July 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18348347 | STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD FOR PROVIDING BOOT DATA | July 2023 | July 2025 | Abandon | 24 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18218271 | Data Storage Device and Method for Intelligent Block Allocation | July 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18216115 | GENERATING COMMAND SNAPSHOTS IN MEMORY DEVICES | June 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18209089 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DATA MIGRATION | June 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 32 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18332167 | DATA MIGRATION USING TRANSACTION ORDER IN SOLID STATE DRIVES | June 2023 | October 2025 | Abandon | 29 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18206195 | STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | June 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18330007 | DYNAMIC MEMORY ALLOCATION USING A SHARED FREE LIST | June 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18329380 | MEMORY SYSTEM ADAPTIVE TO HEALTH CONDITION, AND MEMORY CONTROLLER FOR MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE MEMORY SYSTEM | June 2023 | June 2025 | Abandon | 24 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18326147 | CACHE COHERENCE USING DYNAMIC COARSE-GRAINED TRACKING | May 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18325722 | STORAGE DEVICE, CONTROLLER AND CONTROLLER OPERATION METHOD WITH IMPROVED PROGRAM OPERATION EFFICIENCY | May 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18319932 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING POWER CONSUMPTION IN DEPLOYMENTS | May 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18310660 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INPUT/OUTPUT (IO) REQUEST STREAM SAMPLING FOR MACHINE LEARNING-BASED OPTIMIZATIONS IN STORAGE SYSTEMS | May 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18034541 | METHOD FOR STORING L2P TABLE, SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND MEDIUM | April 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18192874 | Memory Page Attribute Modification | March 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18027518 | MEMORY CONTROLLER AND FLASH MEMORY SYSTEM | March 2023 | February 2025 | Abandon | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18121389 | METHODS FOR MANAGING STORAGE OPERATIONS FOR MULTIPLE HOSTS COUPLED TO DUAL-PORT SOLID-STATE DISKS AND DEVICES THEREOF | March 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18119480 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, STORAGE SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT PROCESSING METHOD | March 2023 | March 2025 | Abandon | 25 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18175450 | Hardware-Assisted Memory Disaggregation with Recovery from Network Failures Using Non-Volatile Memory | February 2023 | October 2024 | Abandon | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18174333 | PROGRAMMABLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOLID STATE DRIVE | February 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18174269 | NOVEL DATA CACHE SCHEME FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE FLASH MEMORIES | February 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18101602 | DETERMINING WHETHER TO PERFORM AN ADDITIONAL LOOKUP OF TRACKING CIRCUITRY | January 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18100654 | COMMAND BLOCK MANAGEMENT | January 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18082032 | PROVIDE HOST APPLICATIONS ABILITY TO DYNAMICALLY MANAGE APPLICATION SPECIFIC FUNCTIONALITY ON STORAGE APPLICATION | December 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18081585 | STORAGE DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | December 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17984191 | OFFLOADING DATA PROCESSING AND KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS | November 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17982387 | FULL DATA SET DIRECTORY FOR MAGNETIC TAPE RECORDING MEDIA | November 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 22 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17938654 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZATION FOR IMPROVING CONCURRENT READ PERFORMANCE OF CRITICAL SECTION IN DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME | October 2022 | July 2025 | Abandon | 33 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17936972 | OPTIMIZING REMOVABLE MEDIA LIBRARY FILE REMOVAL | September 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17934355 | HARDWARE REVOCATION ENGINE FOR TEMPORAL MEMORY SAFETY | September 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17944031 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE HYBRID HARDWARE PRE-FETCH | September 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17940371 | STORAGE SYSTEM | September 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17823480 | Cache Memory Addressing | August 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17893790 | INTERCONNECT BASED ADDRESS MAPPING FOR IMPROVED RELIABILITY | August 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17892960 | COMMAND SCHEDULING FOR A MEMORY SYSTEM | August 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17800869 | SENSOR DEVICE | August 2022 | October 2024 | Abandon | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17889179 | OPEN BLOCK MANAGEMENT IN MEMORY DEVICES | August 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17889297 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A WRITE ADDRESS USING A NEURAL NETWORK | August 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17819319 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM | August 2022 | July 2024 | Abandon | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17885756 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOLID STATE DRIVE (SSD)-BASED REDUNDANT ARRAY OF INDEPENDENT DISKS (RAID) | August 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 30 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17818805 | ENABLING OR DISABLING DATA REDUCTION BASED ON MEASURE OF DATA OVERWRITES | August 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17882610 | MAPPING TABLE RE-BUILDING METHOD, MEMORY STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY CONTROL CIRCUIT UNIT | August 2022 | March 2025 | Abandon | 31 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17816758 | CONFIGURABLE VARIABLE-LENGTH SHIFT REGISTER CIRCUITS | August 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17876936 | IN-PLACE MEMORY COPY DURING REMOTE DATA TRANSFER IN HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTE ENVIRONMENT | July 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17877297 | STORAGE DEVICE | July 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17876110 | Hardware Interconnect With Memory Coherence | July 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17814837 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | July 2022 | October 2024 | Abandon | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17814395 | NAND PAGE BUFFER BASED SECURITY OPERATIONS | July 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17869262 | DATA REMOVAL MARKING IN A MEMORY DEVICE | July 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17867742 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING MEMORY ASSOCIATED WITH A PERIPHERAL COMPONENT INTERCONNECT EXPRESS (PCIE) SOLID-STATE DRIVE (SSD) | July 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17812646 | INITIALIZING MEMORY SYSTEMS | July 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 25 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17809126 | Embedding Data in Address Streams | June 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17850483 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | June 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 28 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17809136 | Embedding Data in Address Streams | June 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17846335 | Data Storage Device and Method for Multi-Level Conditional Prediction of Future Random Read Commands | June 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17846388 | MAINTAINING REAL-TIME CACHE COHERENCY DURING DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATIONAL FUNCTIONS | June 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SADLER, NATHAN.
With a 44.0% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage of cases. This reversal rate is above the USPTO average, indicating that appeals have better success here than typical.
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, 50.0% 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.
✓ Appeals to PTAB show good success rates. If you have a strong case on the merits, consider fully prosecuting the appeal to a Board decision.
✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
Examiner SADLER, NATHAN works in Art Unit 2139 and has examined 444 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 78.6%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 27 months.
Examiner SADLER, NATHAN's allowance rate of 78.6% places them in the 47% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.
On average, applications examined by SADLER, NATHAN receive 2.50 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 73% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by SADLER, NATHAN is 27 months. This places the examiner in the 71% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +13.5% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SADLER, NATHAN. This interview benefit is in the 51% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 23.9% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 34% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show below-average effectiveness with this examiner. Carefully evaluate whether an RCE or continuation is the better strategy.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 29.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 42% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows below-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. You may need to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 26.1% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 30% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show below-average success with this examiner. Consider whether your arguments are strong enough to warrant a PAC request.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 51.9% of appeals filed. This is in the 22% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 11.1% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner rarely withdraws rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. If you file an appeal, be prepared to fully prosecute it to a PTAB decision. Per MPEP § 1207, the examiner will prepare an Examiner's Answer maintaining the rejections.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 43.5% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 36% 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 0.5% of allowed cases (in the 59% 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 5.7% of allowed cases (in the 82% percentile). Per MPEP § 714.14, a Quayle action indicates that all claims are allowable but formal matters remain. This examiner frequently uses Quayle actions compared to other examiners, which is a positive indicator that once substantive issues are resolved, allowance follows quickly.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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