Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18619466 | BUILT-IN SELF-TEST CIRCUITRY FOR DATA IN PATH FOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH MULTIPLE TEST CLOCK SPEEDS FOR MULTIPLE TEST MODES | March 2024 | September 2025 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18591728 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND DATA STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME | February 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18442693 | SINGLE-LEVEL MEMORY CELL ERROR ON-CHIP DETECTION | February 2024 | March 2026 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18431361 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND CONTROLLER | February 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18426905 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE | January 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18425619 | MANAGING THE PROGRAMMING OF AN OPEN TRANSLATION UNIT | January 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18417389 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CELL OF ARRAY STRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED CONTROLLING METHOD | January 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18403471 | MEMORY DEVICE, MEMORY SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | January 2024 | November 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18527658 | BITLINE VOLTAGE ADJUSTMENT FOR PROGRAM OPERATION IN A MEMORY DEVICE | December 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18527693 | PROGRAM VERIFY LEVEL ADJUSTMENT FOR PROGRAM OPERATION IN A MEMORY DEVICE | December 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18522128 | MEMORY ACCESS MODULE FOR PERFORMING A PLURALITY OF SENSING OPERATIONS TO GENERATE DIGITAL VALUES OF A STORAGE CELL IN ORDER TO PERFORM DECODING OF THE STORAGE CELL | November 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18522111 | PAGE WRITE REQUIREMENTS FOR A DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | November 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18506293 | APPARATUS FOR OUTPUTTING INTERNAL STATE OF MEMORY APPARATUS AND MEMORY SYSTEM USING THE APPARATUS | November 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18496887 | Memory Systems, Modules, and Methods for Improved Capacity | October 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18489454 | VOLTAGE REGULATOR SUPPLY FOR INDEPENDENT WORDLINE READS | October 2023 | October 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18485040 | PAGE BUFFER, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING THE PAGE BUFFER, AND OPERATING METHOD OF THE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE | October 2023 | March 2026 | Allow | 29 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18375573 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PERFORMING ARITHMETIC OPERATION | October 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 23 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18374686 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR READING A MEMRISTIVE ELEMENT | September 2023 | February 2026 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18475172 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR MEMORY REFRESH OPERATION THEREOF | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18243314 | PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE ERASE STATE UPPER TAILS IN A MEMORY DEVICE | September 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18461374 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME | September 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18459606 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | September 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18239302 | Data Storage Device and Method for Inferring a Read Threshold Using a Time Tag Determination | August 2023 | September 2025 | Allow | 25 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18229294 | PROGRAM VERIFY WORD LINE RAMPING DELAY FOR LOWER CURRENT CONSUMPTION MODE | August 2023 | August 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18362952 | MEMORY CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME | July 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18360327 | MEMORY PROGRAM-VERIFY WITH ADAPTIVE SENSE TIME BASED ON DISTANCE FROM A WORD LINE DRIVER | July 2023 | March 2026 | Abandon | 31 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18357339 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WTH LOOP DEPENDANT RAMP-UP RATE | July 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18330120 | MEMORY SYSTEM, MEMORY AND MEMORY CONTROL METHOD | June 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18318417 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE | May 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18301377 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | April 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18301482 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE | April 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18134719 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY | April 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18170257 | MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE | February 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 22 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18109029 | MONOTONIC COUNTER IMPLEMENTED IN NON-VOLATILE RESISTIVE SWITCHING MEMORY | February 2023 | July 2025 | Allow | 29 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18064303 | IMS MEMORY CELL, IMS METHOD AND IMS MEMORY DEVICE | December 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 27 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18078456 | MULTI STAGE CHARGE PUMP CIRCUITS AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICES INCLUDING THE SAME | December 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 30 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18076932 | MEMORY DEVICE AND REFRESH METHOD THEREOF | December 2022 | August 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17992035 | MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM SCAN | November 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17978890 | COPYBACK CLEAR COMMAND FOR PERFORMING A SCAN AND READ IN A MEMORY DEVICE | November 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17972858 | APPARATUS AND METHOD CONTROLLING PEAK TO PEAK RIPPLE OF CHARGE PUMP OUTPUT VOLTAGE | October 2022 | March 2026 | Allow | 40 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17970756 | CONFIGURABLE RESISTIVITY FOR LINES IN A MEMORY DEVICE | October 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17965004 | PAGE BUFFER CIRCUIT AND MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | October 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17962302 | SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND CONTROLLER | October 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17960524 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS | October 2022 | May 2024 | Abandon | 19 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17960598 | SEMICONDUCTOR APPARATUS | October 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 15 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17958940 | STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE DEVICE ASSEMBLY USING THE SAME | October 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 32 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17954655 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | September 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17952857 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH SUB-PLANES HAVING INDIVIDUALLY BIASABLE SOURCE LINES | September 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17934185 | SIGNAL SAMPLING CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY | September 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17932691 | MRAM TOP ELECTRODE STRUCTURE WITH LINER LAYER | September 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17944691 | MEMORY REPAIR SYSTEM AND METHOD | September 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 30 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17931464 | MAGNETORESISTIVE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY WITH DATA SCRUBBING | September 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 23 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17929450 | INPUT/OUTPUT REFERENCE VOLTAGE TRAINING METHOD IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICES | September 2022 | July 2025 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17901485 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE | September 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17897854 | IN-PLACE WRITE TECHNIQUES WITHOUT ERASE IN A MEMORY DEVICE | August 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 32 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17891852 | ADAPTIVE INTEGRITY SCAN IN A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM | August 2022 | April 2025 | Allow | 32 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17889154 | APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT SIGNAL MODULATION | August 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17889106 | SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE | August 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17887244 | VOLTAGE WINDOW ADJUSTMENT | August 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 38 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17798619 | CONSTANT VOLTAGE GENERATION CIRCUIT | August 2022 | July 2025 | Abandon | 36 | 2 | 1 | No | No |
| 17883546 | NEURAL NETWORK BASED METHOD AND DEVICE | August 2022 | May 2025 | Allow | 34 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17873716 | REDUCING PROGRAM VERIFIES FOR MULTI-LEVEL NAND CELLS | July 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17873991 | PERFORMING SENSE OPERATIONS IN MEMORY | July 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17813515 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR REPAIRING MULTIPLE BIT LINES WITH A SAME COLUMN SELECT VALUE | July 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 39 | 3 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17862082 | DIFFERENTIAL STROBE FAULT INDICATION | July 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17862006 | DIE-BASED HIGH AND LOW PRIORITY ERROR QUEUES | July 2022 | November 2024 | Allow | 28 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17858374 | MEMORY SYSTEM PERFORMING PERFORMANCE ADJUSTING OPERATION | July 2022 | June 2025 | Allow | 35 | 4 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17854146 | CONTROL CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY | June 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17851530 | METHOD FOR DETECTING MEMORY DEVICE, COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | June 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17848599 | Turbo Mode SRAM for High Performance | June 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 26 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17847545 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME | June 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17842516 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD | June 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17806333 | STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | June 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17806003 | DETECTION CIRCUIT | June 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17834024 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND PROGRAM METHOD OF THE SAME | June 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 24 | 3 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17832680 | MEMORY ACCESS MODULE FOR PERFORMING A PLURALITY OF SENSING OPERATIONS TO GENERATE DIGITAL VALUES OF A STORAGE CELL IN ORDER TO PERFORM DECODING OF THE STORAGE CELL | June 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17830042 | DECODER ARCHITECTURES FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICES | June 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 29 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17828273 | SENSE AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT, METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME, AND FABRICATION METHOD FOR SAME | May 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17827997 | TEST METHOD, COMPUTER APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | May 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17828017 | ANTI-FUSE READOUT CIRCUIT, ANTI-FUSE MEMORY, AND TESTING METHOD | May 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17824738 | MEMORY DEVICE WITH RESET VOLTAGE CONTROL | May 2022 | December 2024 | Allow | 31 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17664465 | High-Density Memory Cells and Layouts Thereof | May 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 1 | No | No |
| 17745262 | TEMPERATURE INFORMED MEMORY REFRESH | May 2022 | September 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17743493 | MEMORY DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | May 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17742345 | Determine Optimized Read Voltage via Identification of Distribution Shape of Signal and Noise Characteristics | May 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 29 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17737781 | ADAPTIVE DSP GENERATION OF READ THRESHOLDS FOR GAUSSIAN AND NON-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTIONS IN SOLID STATE STORAGE USING CUMULATIVE OBSERVED COUNTS | May 2022 | September 2024 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17730973 | ERROR CONTROL FOR MEMORY DEVICE | April 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 35 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17728792 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING LEAKAGE STATE | April 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 27 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17725144 | ARCHITECTURE AND METHOD FOR NAND MEMORY PROGRAMMING | April 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17725110 | TECHNIQUES FOR SATURATING A HOST INTERFACE | April 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17719628 | SEMICONDUCTOR ELEMENT MEMORY DEVICE | April 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17704747 | PAGE WRITE REQUIREMENTS FOR DIFFERING TYPES OF FLASH MEMORY | March 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17690698 | ARCHITECTURE FOR FAST CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY SEARCH | March 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17677332 | DETECTING FAILURE OF A THERMAL SENSOR IN A MEMORY DEVICE | February 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17675468 | TEMPERATURE DIFFERENTIAL-BASED VOLTAGE OFFSET CONTROL | February 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17669810 | TECHNIQUES FOR A MULTI-STEP CURRENT PROFILE FOR A PHASE CHANGE MEMORY | February 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17669565 | COMPARISON SYSTEM | February 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17668884 | EMBEDDED FLASH MEMORY AND WRITE OPERATION METHOD THEREOF | February 2022 | March 2025 | Allow | 37 | 2 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 17650418 | FLASH MEMORY CELL STRUCTURE HAVING SEPARATE PROGRAM AND ERASE ELECTRON PATHS | February 2022 | October 2025 | Allow | 44 | 4 | 0 | No | No |
| 17589973 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH REDUNDANT CONTROL LINE DRIVER | February 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SMET, UYEN TRAN.
With a 50.0% 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, 20.0% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is below the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal has limited effectiveness in prompting favorable reconsideration.
✓ 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 shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner SMET, UYEN TRAN works in Art Unit 2824 and has examined 616 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 93.7%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 18 months.
Examiner SMET, UYEN TRAN's allowance rate of 93.7% places them in the 81% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by SMET, UYEN TRAN receive 1.34 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 20% 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 SMET, UYEN TRAN is 18 months. This places the examiner in the 96% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +4.4% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SMET, UYEN TRAN. This interview benefit is in the 28% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 33.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 71% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. Consider whether your amendments or new arguments are strong enough to warrant an RCE versus filing a continuation.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 54.8% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 81% 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, 0.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 13% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show limited success with this examiner compared to others. While still worth considering, be prepared to proceed with a full appeal brief if the PAC does not result in favorable action.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 66.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 50% 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 shows below-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. Be prepared to fully prosecute appeals if filed.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 38.6% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 27% 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 0.2% of allowed cases (in the 51% 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 0.7% of allowed cases (in the 57% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions more often than average when claims are allowable but formal matters remain (MPEP § 714.14).
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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