DETAILED ACTION
The Office Action is sent in response to Applicant’s Communication received on 02/27/2026 for application number 17/688,198.
Examiner Notes the following: claims 1, 5, 8, 10, 11, 13, 17, and 20 have been amended. Claims 3, 7, 15, 19, and 21-23 have been canceled.
The Examiner determined this action to be Non-final because the Examiner realized not all of the pending claims was not rejected under 112(a) when they should have been. Examiner notes that despite this Office Action is non-final, the claims have been rejected twice and the applicant can appeal.
Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Specification
The specification is objected to as failing to provide proper antecedent basis for the claimed subject matter. See 37 CFR 1.75(d)(1) and MPEP § 608.01(o). Correction of the following is required: Such claimed subject matter is “predetermined dependence”.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112(a):
(a) IN GENERAL.—The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor or joint inventor of carrying out the invention.
The following is a quotation of the first paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112:
The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Claims 1-2, 4-5, 8-14, 16-18, 20, and 24-26 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(a) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), first paragraph, as failing to comply with the written description requirement. The claim(s) contains subject matter which was not described in the specification in such a way as to reasonably convey to one skilled in the relevant art that the inventor or a joint inventor, or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the inventor(s), at the time the application was filed, had possession of the claimed invention. More specifically, the claim limitation of “a first transformation matrix… binary element values corresponding to generations of real part… a second transformation matrix… binary element values corresponding to generations of imaginary part… there exists a predetermined dependence between binary element values of the first transformation matrix and binary element values of the second transformation matrix”. The specification discloses a more specific species of shifted by ¼ of the predetermined number and does not define the more general genus of “predetermined dependence”. See at least specification paragraphs 13, 25, 81, 83 and 87. The more general genus of “predetermined dependence” related to the real and imaginary parts also includes but not limited to expressions that real and imaginary are dependent on each other and Hilbert transforms. See Oppenheim et al. (NPL: “Discrete-Time Signal Processing 2nd ed.”) on at least Sec.11, pp.781-790 for equations 11.26-11.30, 11.45-11.49, and 11.62-11.66 for DTFT, DFS, DFT, and Hilbert transform equations that allows one to use real or imaginary to find the other one, which shows a predetermined dependency between the real and imaginary parts of a Fourier Transform. As such, one looking at the specification would only know about the ¼ specific species as disclosed by the specification, as the genus was not defined in the specification.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claim 6 allowed, see Office Action Mailed 07/16/2025.
Claims 1-2, 4-5, 8-14, 16-18, 20, and 24-26 would be allowable after the rejection under 35 U.S.C. 112 are overcome.
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: See Office Action Mailed 12/29/2025. Wherein claims 1 and 13 now includes the reasons given for claims 7 and 19, respectively.
Conclusion
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/KENNY K. BUI/Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2182 (571)270-0604
/ANDREW CALDWELL/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2182
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