USPTO Art Unit 2187 Prosecution Statistics

Art Unit Information

Art Unit: 2187
Group: 2180
Tech Center: 2100
Total Cases: 8,293
Last Active: January 2025

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19027621ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)-BASED METHOD FOR NON-CONTACT MEASUREMENT OF SHEET RESISTANCE OF A CONDUCTIVE FILM MATERIALJanuary 2025March 2025Allow200NoNo
18932923SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR ADAPTIVE DESIGN EXPLORATION AND MODEL MANAGEMENTOctober 2024June 2025Allow710YesNo
18927627COGNOLOGY AND COGNOMETRICS SYSTEM AND METHODOctober 2024May 2025Allow610YesNo
18820162COGNOLOGY AND COGNOMETRICS SYSTEM AND METHODAugust 2024November 2024Allow300YesNo
18796867INTELLIGENT OPERATIONAL OPTIMIZATION METHOD IN MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE INCINERATION PROCESSAugust 2024February 2025Allow610NoNo
18751496METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING SERVICE LIFE OF STEEL BOX GIRDER, DEVICE, AND MEDIUMJune 2024June 2025Abandon1220NoNo
18743799METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT HARDWARE MAPPING OF GENERATIVE GIANT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELJune 2024April 2025Allow1010NoNo
18737287SYSTEMS AND METHODS CONFIGURED FOR SIMULATING SPACE-BASED IMAGING OF RESIDENT SPACE OBJECTSJune 2024March 2025Allow1030YesNo
18736442MULTISCALE ANALYSIS METHOD, SYSTEM, MEDIA AND DEVICE FOR THERMAL-MECHANICAL COUPLING PERFORMANCE OF HEAT EXCHANGERJune 2024June 2025Abandon1220NoNo
18733583Method of Quantifying Polynucleotide Analytes from Dried SamplesJune 2024August 2024Allow300YesNo
18676131AUTOMATED TESTING OF MOBILE DEVICES USING VISUAL ANALYSISMay 2024June 2025Allow1310NoNo
18667801Associativity and Resolution of Computer-Based Models and DataMay 2024December 2024Allow720YesNo
18662273NEURAL NETWORK BASED VEHICLE DYNAMICS MODELMay 2024June 2025Abandon1310NoNo
18705768A METHOD FOR OBTAINING AN IMPROVED TRANSFORMER DESIGN FOR A POWER PLANTApril 2024August 2024Allow400NoNo
18636164METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE EFFICACY OF AN AEROSOL FOR PULMONARY DRUG DELIVERY AS WELL AS INHALER DEVICE, ORALLY INHALED AND/OR NASAL DRUG PRODUCT AND DRUG/DEVICE COMBINATION PRODUCTApril 2024April 2025Allow1210YesNo
18620257METHOD FOR IMPROVING UNCONVENTIONAL HYDROGEN DEVELOPMENTMarch 2024March 2025Allow1210YesNo
18609468METHOD FOR EVALUATING STABILITY OF TUNNEL SURROUNDING ROCK CONSIDERING CREEP CHARACTERISTICS OF STRUCTURAL PLANEMarch 2024May 2024Allow220NoNo
18609711APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION OF PROCESS PARAMETERMarch 2024June 2024Allow200NoNo
18692643TRAINING METHOD FOR PARAMETER CONFIGURATION MODEL, PARAMETER CONFIGURATION METHOD, AND PARAMETER CONFIGURATION DEVICEMarch 2024June 2024Allow300NoNo
18593859METHODS OF MAKING STRUCTURAL FRAMING MEMBERS AND ASSEMBLIES WITH SEALING INTERFACE STRIPSMarch 2024September 2024Allow700YesNo
18592215WATERFLOOD FRONT IMAGING USING SEGMENTALLY INSULATED WELL LINERS AS ON-DEMAND ELECTRODESFebruary 2024May 2025Allow1400NoNo
18586152System and Method for Performing Quality Control of Manufactured ModelsFebruary 2024March 2025Allow1310YesNo
18584265GPU-ON-DEMAND SYSTEM POWERED BY SELF CONTAINED ENERGY SOURCEFebruary 2024July 2024Allow510YesNo
18438739ADAPTIVE DISTRIBUTED ANALYTICS SYSTEMFebruary 2024September 2024Allow700YesNo
18438401Site Planning for Wind Turbines Using Sensor NetworksFebruary 2024June 2025Abandon1620NoNo
18436783METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPTIMALLY CONFIGURING CAPACITY OF HIGH-PROPORTION NEW ENERGY SYSTEM, DEVICE, AND MEDIUMFebruary 2024January 2025Abandon1120YesNo
18432047HYDRODYNAMIC FREE-SURFACE LATTICE BOLTZMANN SIMULATION METHOD AND SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUMFebruary 2024April 2025Abandon1410NoNo
18427858CONSTRUCTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HYDRODYNAMIC JOINT COMPUTATION MODEL, DEVICE, AND MEDIUMJanuary 2024October 2024Allow910NoNo
18426270SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTION OF REFRIGERANT LEAKSJanuary 2024May 2025Allow1620NoNo
18422437FIELD-DEPLOYABLE HARDWARE APPARATUSJanuary 2024July 2024Allow610YesNo
18396579METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FATIGUE ANALYSIS ON OFFSHORE DEEPWATER DRILLING CONDUCTOR OR SURFACE CASINGDecember 2023April 2025Abandon1520NoNo
18544316Using Barycenter Compact Model to Determine IR Drop for Circuit NetworkDecember 2023July 2024Allow700YesNo
18538742METHODS FOR DESIGNING, MANUFACTURING, INSTALLING, AND/OR MAINTENANCE OF ROOFING ACCESSORIES AND SYSTEMS OF USE THEREOFDecember 2023August 2024Allow810NoNo
18567586SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING AHB BUS DATA TRANSMISSION PERFORMANCE AND SERVERDecember 2023June 2024Allow600NoNo
18514187Sealed Enclosure Power Control SystemNovember 2023July 2024Allow800NoNo
18511927PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SECURE BOOTING THEREOFNovember 2023February 2024Allow300NoNo
18502198ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ASSISTED PRODUCTION ADVISORY SYSTEM AND METHODNovember 2023April 2025Allow1820YesNo
18502963SLEEP SIGNALING HANDSHAKE FOR ETHERNETNovember 2023May 2024Allow700YesNo
18498191DIGITAL AVATAR PLATFORMOctober 2023February 2025Allow1620YesNo
18498932BIM COMPONENT CREATING METHOD, DIGITAL DESIGN RESOURCE LIBRARY APPLICATION METHOD AND DEVICEOctober 2023February 2025Abandon1521NoNo
18487769SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPDATING HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR PARAMETERSOctober 2023April 2025Allow1800NoNo
18478025NEURAL NETWORK CONTROL VARIATESSeptember 2023May 2025Allow1920NoNo
18373215COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN SYSTEM FOR AIRBORNE CONTAMINANT FLOWSSeptember 2023September 2024Allow1200YesNo
18473567Printed Circuits with Embedded Resistive Thermal DevicesSeptember 2023June 2024Allow900NoNo
18473746SOC FOR OPERATING PLURAL NPUS ACCORDING TO PLURAL CLOCK SIGNALS HAVING MULTI-PHASESSeptember 2023August 2024Allow1020YesNo
18371530LOWER EXTREMITIES LEG LENGTH CALCULATION METHODSeptember 2023March 2025Allow1720YesNo
18471111Frozen Boundary Multi-Domain Parallel Mesh GenerationSeptember 2023August 2024Allow1110YesNo
18467626DYNAMIC ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS REPRESENTING ASSETS BASED ON AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED ASSET RECORDSSeptember 2023August 2024Allow1100YesNo
18460344MULTI-PHASE SIGNAL GENERATIONSeptember 2023June 2024Allow910NoNo
18240834SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING WELDING SYSTEMSAugust 2023September 2024Allow1210NoNo
18240052SYNCHRONIZATION OF A CLOCK GENERATOR DIVIDER SETTING AND MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT COMPONENT CLOCK DIVIDER SETTINGSAugust 2023March 2024Allow700NoNo
18239284Systems, Methods, and Software for Identification and Application of Physical Mitigations in Planning and Operating an Electrical Power GridAugust 2023November 2024Allow1410NoNo
18237623OPERATING DEVICE OF CROSS-POWER DOMAIN MULTIPROCESSOR AND COMMUNICATION METHOD THEREOFAugust 2023December 2023Allow400YesNo
18455101PHASE ALIGNING AND CALIBRATING CLOCKS FROM ONE PHASE LOCK LOOP (PLL) FOR A TWO-CHIP DIE MODULEAugust 2023August 2024Allow1110NoNo
18454151Managing Power in an Integrated Circuit for High-Speed ActivationAugust 2023July 2024Allow1110YesNo
18449890SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING PLATFORM POWER AND PERFORMANCE BASED ON TASK CHARACTERISTICSAugust 2023June 2024Allow1010NoNo
18232522COGNOLOGY AND COGNOMETRICS SYSTEM AND METHODAugust 2023May 2024Allow910YesNo
18446670STORAGE DEVICE ADJUSTING DATA RATE AND STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAMEAugust 2023March 2024Allow700NoNo
18361882NETWORK-COUPLED MODELING METHOD FOR FIRE SPREAD OF LITHIUM-ION BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMJuly 2023February 2025Abandon1920NoNo
18358623ASYNCHRONOUS ASICJuly 2023June 2024Allow1110NoNo
18347534SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING MODELS FOR PREDICTIVE FAILURE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSETSJuly 2023December 2024Allow1720NoNo
18218426SEMI-PROGRAMMABLE AND RECONFIGURABLE CO-ACCELERATOR FOR A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK WITH NORMALIZATION OR NON-LINEARITYJuly 2023June 2024Allow1110NoNo
18216439FLASH MEMORY DEVICE HAVING A CALIBRATION MODEJune 2023April 2024Allow1010NoNo
18340547FIRMWARE UPDATE MECHANISM OF A POWER DISTRIBUTION BOARDJune 2023May 2024Allow1110NoNo
18269512METHOD FOR PREDICTING AND MANAGING TEMPERATURE OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUITJune 2023March 2024Allow910NoNo
18339963APPLICATION PROFILING FOR POWER-PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENTJune 2023May 2024Allow1110NoNo
18329062DYNAMICALLY-CONFIGURABLE BASEBOARD MANAGEMENT CONTROLLERJune 2023June 2024Allow1210NoNo
18326497CLOCK SYNCHRONISATIONMay 2023July 2024Allow1330YesNo
18326142DEPLOYING SERVICE CONTAINERS IN AN ADAPTER DEVICEMay 2023May 2024Allow1110NoNo
18039232BMC PARAMETER CONFIGURATION AND EFFECT-TAKING METHOD AND APPARATUS, DEVICE, AND MEDIUMMay 2023September 2023Allow400NoNo
18199464AUTOMATED SCALING OF APPLICATION FEATURES BASED ON RULESMay 2023July 2024Allow1410NoNo
18320648OPERATION-SPECIFIC FILE SYSTEMMay 2023July 2023Allow200NoNo
18199551SURFACE PROTECTION DESIGN SYSTEMSMay 2023November 2024Abandon1830YesNo
18144956SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SETTING THE SAMEMay 2023March 2024Allow1110YesNo
18312768SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELASTIC DELIVERY, PROCESSING, AND STORAGE FOR WEARABLE DEVICES BASED ON SYSTEM RESOURCESMay 2023April 2024Allow1110NoNo
18312309MODULAR EMBEDDED CHASSIS WITH FIRMWARE FOR REMOVABLY COUPLED COMPUTE DEVICES, AND METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR THE SAMEMay 2023April 2024Allow1110YesNo
18143105POWER MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, POWER MANAGEMENT METHOD, MOBILE DEVICE AND CLOCK ADJUSTING METHODMay 2023July 2024Allow1410YesNo
18311129Precise Time Management Using Local Time BaseMay 2023February 2024Allow1010NoNo
18306699TECHNIQUES FOR MONITORING POWER DEVICE ALARMSApril 2023July 2024Allow1510NoNo
18304404MULTI-CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION IN POWER GRIDSApril 2023December 2023Allow801YesNo
18136935COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION METHOD, CONTROL CIRCUIT, AND STORAGE MEDIUMApril 2023July 2024Allow1500NoNo
18304298SECURE BOOTLOADER FOR ELECTRONIC GAMING MACHINES AND OTHER COMPUTING DEVICESApril 2023March 2024Allow1110YesNo
18137330METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POWER SUPPLY CONTROLApril 2023April 2024Allow1210NoNo
18133603SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF TUNING SENSOR DEVICESApril 2023September 2024Allow1810NoNo
18132478DYNAMIC BATTERY BACK-UP FOR SET-TOP-BOXESApril 2023June 2024Allow1410NoNo
18296875HIGHLY SCALABLE ACCELERATORApril 2023April 2024Allow1210NoNo
18295921Controlling a Processor ClockApril 2023January 2024Allow1010NoNo
18130217DYNAMIC PRE-BOOT CONFIGURATION FOR FLIGHT SYSTEMSApril 2023July 2024Allow1500NoNo
18190875Network Identification of Portable Electronic Devices While Changing Power StatesMarch 2023February 2024Allow1110YesNo
18187335METHOD OF PRODUCING TRIGGERING SIGNALS FOR A CONTROL OF A MULTIMEDIA INTERFACEMarch 2023October 2023Allow710YesNo
18122977SLAVE DEVICE AND HOST DEVICEMarch 2023July 2024Allow1600NoNo
18184882POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUIT, CHIP AND UPGRADE METHOD THEREFOR, AND SERVERMarch 2023October 2023Allow701YesNo
18184178METHOD AND COMPUTING SYSTEM FOR RETURNING TO A BIOS SETUP UTILITY WHILE IN A SHELL ENVIRONMENT DURING A BOOTING PROCESSMarch 2023July 2024Allow1600NoNo
18184164SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION IN COMPUTING SYSTEMSMarch 2023June 2024Allow1600YesNo
18184518SELECTIVE FIRMWARE PLACEMENT DURING INITIALIZATION OF COMPUTE SYSTEMSMarch 2023June 2024Allow1500NoNo
18182088FORECASTING DEVICE USAGE USING MOTIFS OF UNIVARIATE TIME-SERIES DATASET AND COMBINED MODELINGMarch 2023April 2024Allow1300YesNo
18179597SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EXECUTION IN DYNAMIC APPLICATION RUNTIME ENVIRONMENTSMarch 2023June 2023Allow400NoNo
18118055Method and System for Organizing Programmable Semiconductor Device into Multiple Clock RegionsMarch 2023March 2024Allow1210NoNo
18117517BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO USE THE SAME TO OBTAIN BATTERY SHOCK AND/OR ROLLOVER DATAMarch 2023May 2024Allow1530YesNo
18043843HASHBOARD, POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM OF DIGITAL PROCESSING DEVICE, AND DIGITAL PROCESSING DEVICEMarch 2023September 2024Allow1910NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for art-unit 2187.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
77
Examiner Affirmed
55
(71.4%)
Examiner Reversed
22
(28.6%)
Reversal Percentile
30.0%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 28.6% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges here than typical.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
348
Allowed After Appeal Filing
118
(33.9%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
230
(66.1%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
55.4%
Higher than average

Understanding Appeal Filing Strategy

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, 33.9% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is above the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal can be an effective strategy for prompting reconsideration.

Strategic Recommendations

⚠ Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.

✓ Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Art Unit 2187 - Prosecution Statistics Summary

Executive Summary

Art Unit 2187 is part of Group 2180 in Technology Center 2100. This art unit has examined 8,293 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 85.4%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 30 months.

Comparative Analysis

Art Unit 2187's allowance rate of 85.4% places it in the 79% percentile among all USPTO art units. This art unit has a significantly higher allowance rate than most art units at the USPTO.

Prosecution Patterns

Applications in Art Unit 2187 receive an average of 1.70 office actions before reaching final disposition (in the 39% percentile). The median prosecution time is 30 months (in the 43% percentile).

Strategic Considerations

When prosecuting applications in this art unit, consider the following:

  • The art unit's allowance rate suggests a more favorable examination environment compared to the USPTO average.
  • With fewer office actions than average, plan for relatively streamlined prosecution.
  • The median prosecution time is longer than average and should be factored into your continuation and client communication strategies.
  • Review individual examiner statistics within this art unit to identify examiners with particularly favorable or challenging prosecution patterns.

Important Disclaimer

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