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 .
Status of the Application
2. Claim amendment filed on 6/12/26 have been entered and considered. Claim 4-5, 11-12, and 18-19 are in pending status.
Claim 1-3, 6-10, 13-17, and 20 are allowed.
Response to Arguments
3. The prior art rejection for claim 1-20 have been withdrawn in light of the claim amendment filed on 6/12/26.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
4. Claim 4-5, 11-12, and 18-19 recites the limitation "the performed adjustment". There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Note: Examiner suggest to correct it to “the manually performed adjustment” to overcome the rejection.
Allowable Subject Matter
5. The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for indicating allowable subject matter for claim 1:
None of the prior art on record taken either alone or in obvious combination disclose “providing, to the trained machine learning model as second input data, an indication of a manually performed adjustment to the equipment constant, different than the recommended adjustment; and retraining the trained machine learning model based on a difference between the recommended adjustment to the equipment constant and the manually performed adjustment to the equipment constant to generate a retrained machine learning model” with the remaining claimed features and limitations.
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6. Claim 2-3, and 6-7 are allowed due to direct/indirect dependency on claim 1.
7. Independent claim 8 and 15 also recites the same allowable subject matter as claim 1. Hence claim 8 and its dependent claim 9-10, 13-14, independent claim 15 and its dependent claim 16-17, and 20 are also allowed.
Conclusion
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/JIGNESHKUMAR C PATEL/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2116
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