Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications
64 pending office actions • 19 art units • 58 examiners • 0 of 64 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 102 patents granted in the last 365 days
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 8 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 3 (5%) |
| §101 + other | 18 (28%) |
| §103 only | 19 (30%) |
| §112 only | 3 (5%) |
| Double-patenting only | 9 (14%) |
| Double-patenting + other | 2 (3%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 10 (16%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| RICKS, DONNA J | 3 | 76.7% | +10.3% |
| CRAWFORD, JACINTA M | 3 | 88.0% | +9.8% |
| TSENG, CHENG YUAN | 2 | 84.1% | +15.5% |
| MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | 2 | 86.6% | +12.9% |
| DHARIA, PRABODH M | 1 | 85.5% | +5.5% |
| BUTLER, SARAI E | 1 | 88.1% | +10.7% |
| OCHSNER, ISABELLA PAIGE | 1 | — | — |
| WU, YANNA | 1 | 80.9% | +34.4% |
| LE, MICHAEL | 1 | 65.7% | +21.7% |
| CHIN, MICHELLE | 1 | 85.5% | +11.4% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18211725 | Foveated Rendering | CRAWFORD, JACINTA M | 28d |
| 19244367 | Allocation of Resources to Tasks | DHARIA, PRABODH M | — |
| 19059137 | Graphics Processing Systems and Methods | CHIN, MICHELLE | — |
| 19031852 | Data Structures, Methods and Tiling Engines for Storing Tiling Information in a Graphics Processing System | CRAWFORD, JACINTA M | — |
| 19031589 | Scheduling Tasks in a Processor | TSENG, CHENG YUAN | — |
| 19017672 | Graphics Processor with Non-Blocking Concurrent Architecture | CRAWFORD, JACINTA M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18800021 | INTERSECTION TESTING IN RAY TRACING SYSTEMS USING HIERARCHICAL ACCELERATION STRUCTURES WITH IMPLICITLY REPRESENTED NODES | NGUYEN, PHONG X | 20d |
| 18211208 | HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ATTENTION-BASED NEURAL NETWORK | DEVORE, CHRISTOPHER DILLON | 20d |
| 18777462 | INTERSECTION TESTING IN A RAY TRACING SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE RAY BUNDLE INTERSECTION TESTS | CHEN, FRANK S | 43d |
| 19232611 | Processing Tasks in a Processing System | BUTLER, SARAI E | — |
| 19197990 | Graphics Processing Unit for Processing Primitives Using a Rendering Space Which is Sub-Divided into a Plurality of Tiles | OCHSNER, ISABELLA PAIGE | — |
| 19187869 | Assembling Primitive Data into Multi-View Primitive Blocks in a Graphics Processing System | WU, YANNA | — |
| 19061691 | Intersection Testing in a Ray Tracing System Using Three-Dimensional Axis-Aligned Box | LE, MICHAEL | — |
| 19037551 | Intersection Testing in a Ray Tracing System Using Axis-Aligned Box Coordinate Components | LIU, GORDON G | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18394420 | APPLYING TEXTURE PROCESSING TO A BLOCK OF FRAGMENTS IN A GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT | RICKS, DONNA J | 51d overdue |
| 19232611 | Processing Tasks in a Processing System | BUTLER, SARAI E | — |
| 19187869 | Assembling Primitive Data into Multi-View Primitive Blocks in a Graphics Processing System | WU, YANNA | — |
| 19063584 | Tile Region Protection Using Multiple GPUs | RICKS, DONNA J | — |
| 19061691 | Intersection Testing in a Ray Tracing System Using Three-Dimensional Axis-Aligned Box | LE, MICHAEL | — |
| 19059137 | Graphics Processing Systems and Methods | CHIN, MICHELLE | — |
| 19031589 | Scheduling Tasks in a Processor | TSENG, CHENG YUAN | — |
| 19022671 | Graphics Processing Using Directional Representations of Lighting at Probe Positions within a Scene | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2611 | 6 |
| 2617 | 3 |
| 2613 | 2 |
| 2618 | 2 |
| 2128 | 2 |
| 2668 | 1 |
| 2612 | 1 |
| 2138 | 1 |
| 2183 | 1 |
| 2675 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19244367 | Allocation of Resources to Tasks | DHARIA, PRABODH M | 2611 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 20, 2025 |
| 19232611 | Processing Tasks in a Processing System | BUTLER, SARAI E | — | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 09, 2025 |
| 19197990 | Graphics Processing Unit for Processing Primitives Using a Rendering Space Which is Sub-Divided into a Plurality of Tiles | OCHSNER, ISABELLA PAIGE | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2025 |
| 19187869 | Assembling Primitive Data into Multi-View Primitive Blocks in a Graphics Processing System | WU, YANNA | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 23, 2025 |
| 19063584 | Tile Region Protection Using Multiple GPUs | RICKS, DONNA J | — | §112DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 26, 2025 |
| 19061691 | Intersection Testing in a Ray Tracing System Using Three-Dimensional Axis-Aligned Box | LE, MICHAEL | — | §103§112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 24, 2025 |
| 19059137 | Graphics Processing Systems and Methods | CHIN, MICHELLE | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2025 |
| 19043742 | MANAGEMENT OF VERTEX BUFFER | AHN, CHRISTINE YERA | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 03, 2025 |
| 19037551 | Intersection Testing in a Ray Tracing System Using Axis-Aligned Box Coordinate Components | LIU, GORDON G | — | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 27, 2025 |
| 19031852 | Data Structures, Methods and Tiling Engines for Storing Tiling Information in a Graphics Processing System | CRAWFORD, JACINTA M | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19031815 | Graphics Processing Systems with Expansion Transformation Stage Masks | WANG, YUEHAN | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19031589 | Scheduling Tasks in a Processor | TSENG, CHENG YUAN | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19031533 | Primitive Block Generator for Graphics Processing Systems | ROBINSON, TERRELL M | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19022671 | Graphics Processing Using Directional Representations of Lighting at Probe Positions within a Scene | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | — | §101DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 15, 2025 |
| 19019747 | IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY SYSTEM USING RAY TRACING | THOMPSON, JAMES A | — | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19021070 | METHODS AND GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS FOR DETERMINING DIFFERENTIAL DATA FOR RAYS OF A RAY BUNDLE | NGUYEN, PHU K | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19020711 | Untransformed Display Lists In A Tile Based Rendering System | MAZUMDER, SAPTARSHI | — | §112Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 14, 2025 |
| 19019232 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOFT SHADOWING IN 3-D RENDERING CASTING MULTIPLE RAYS FROM RAY ORIGINS | MCDOWELL, JR, MAURICE L | — | §101Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 13, 2025 |
| 19017677 | On Demand Geometry and Acceleration Structure Creation with Tile Object Lists | DEMETER, HILINA K | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2025 |
| 19017706 | Ray Tracing System Architectures and Methods | LHYMN, SARAH | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2025 |
| 19017672 | Graphics Processor with Non-Blocking Concurrent Architecture | CRAWFORD, JACINTA M | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 12, 2025 |
| 19013158 | INTERSECTION TESTING IN A RAY TRACING SYSTEM | MAZUMDER, TAPAS | 2611 | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 08, 2025 |
| 19012604 | RENDERING A 3-D SCENE USING OFFSET SECONDARY RAY TRACING | YANG, ANDREW GUS | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 07, 2025 |
| 18989324 | WEIGHTING PARAMETERS FOR USE IN APPLYING UPSAMPLING | SOHRABY, PARDIS | 2668 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 20, 2024 |
| 18976502 | IMAGE NOISE REDUCTION | DUNPHY, DAVID F | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 11, 2024 |
| 18969001 | STEREOSCOPIC GRAPHICS PROCESSING | PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A | — | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 04, 2024 |
| 18962727 | ANISOTROPIC TEXTURE FILTERING FOR SAMPLING POINTS IN SCREEN SPACE | SAJOUS, WESNER | 2612 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 27, 2024 |
| 18959911 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RENDERING ITEMS OF GEOMETRY BASED ON THEIR SIZE | SALVUCCI, MATTHEW D | 2613 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Nov 26, 2024 |
| 18955776 | EDGE TEST AND DEPTH CALCULATION IN GRAPHICS PROCESSING HARDWARE | MUSHAMBO, MARTIN | — | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 21, 2024 |
| 18950357 | GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING RENDERING COMPLEXITY USING COST INDICATIONS FOR SETS OF TILES OF A RENDERING SPACE | FLORA, NURUN N | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 18, 2024 |
| 18938826 | CPU FOR IMPLEMENTING A GRAPHICS PROCESSING PIPELINE | NGUYEN, HAU H | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 06, 2024 |
| 18934146 | DECODING IMAGES COMPRESSED USING MIP MAP COMPRESSION | WELLS, HEATH E | — | §101§102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18934069 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTISAMPLE ANTIALIASING | MCCULLEY, RYAN D | 2611 | §103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 31, 2024 |
| 18926104 | SAMPLING FOR FEATURE DETECTION IN IMAGE ANALYSIS | ROSARIO, DENNIS | — | §102§103Other | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Oct 24, 2024 |
| 18883768 | SCHEDULING HETEROGENEOUS COMPUTATION ON MULTITHREADED PROCESSORS | AQUINO, WYNUEL S | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 12, 2024 |
| 18827583 | CONSERVATIVE RASTERIZATION USING GRADIENTS | WANG, JIN CHENG | 2617 | DPOther | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 06, 2024 |
| 18800021 | INTERSECTION TESTING IN RAY TRACING SYSTEMS USING HIERARCHICAL ACCELERATION STRUCTURES WITH IMPLICITLY REPRESENTED NODES | NGUYEN, PHONG X | 2617 | §102§103 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Aug 10, 2024 |
| 18791035 | Processing Memory Access Transactions | KROFCHECK, MICHAEL C | 2138 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 34d | Pending | Jul 31, 2024 |
| 18788527 | NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE USING CONVOLUTION ENGINES | SACKALOSKY, COREY MATTHEW | 2183 | DP | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 30, 2024 |
| 18777462 | INTERSECTION TESTING IN A RAY TRACING SYSTEM USING MULTIPLE RAY BUNDLE INTERSECTION TESTS | CHEN, FRANK S | 2611 | §101§112DP | Final Rejection | 43d | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18777274 | LEARNED FEATURE MOTION DETECTION | COLEMAN, STEPHEN P | 2675 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 18, 2024 |
| 18680170 | COMPRESSING A NEURAL NETWORK | BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT | — | §101 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 31, 2024 |
| 18676283 | SCHEDULING TASKS USING TARGETED PIPELINES | TSENG, CHENG YUAN | 2615 | §102§112 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | May 28, 2024 |
| 18621392 | TASK DEPENDENCIES | LAPOINTE, JULIANNE CATHERINE | — | §101§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 29, 2024 |
| 18599607 | TESSELLATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS IN RAY TRACING | AHMAD, NAUMAN UDDIN | 2611 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 08, 2024 |
| 18394420 | APPLYING TEXTURE PROCESSING TO A BLOCK OF FRAGMENTS IN A GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT | RICKS, DONNA J | 2618 | §103 | Final Rejection | 51d overdue | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18393536 | MAPPING NEURAL NETWORKS TO HARDWARE | MARU, MATIYAS T | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 21, 2023 |
| 18541596 | Hardware Mapping | MHEIR, ZUHEIR | 2198 | §101§102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 15, 2023 |
| 18515153 | SINGLE PASS RENDERING FOR HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS | WELCH, DAVID T | 2613 | §103 | Non-Final OA | 19d | Pending | Nov 20, 2023 |
| 18375398 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMING CHANNEL EQUALISATION ON A CONVOLUTION LAYER IN A NEURAL NETWORK | KEATON, SHERROD L | 2148 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18375198 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ONLINE SELECTION OF NUMBER FORMATS FOR NETWORK PARAMETERS OF A NEURAL NETWORK | GIROUX, GEORGE | 2128 | §101§102 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 29, 2023 |
| 18216008 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EXECUTING A NEURAL NETWORK ON A NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR | ANYIKIRE, CHIKAODILI E | 2487 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18216196 | VERIFICATION OF A HARDWARE DESIGN FOR AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TO IMPLEMENT A FLOATING POINT PRODUCT OF POWER FUNCTIONS | COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jun 29, 2023 |
| 18211725 | Foveated Rendering | CRAWFORD, JACINTA M | 2617 | §103 | Final Rejection | 28d | Pending | Jun 20, 2023 |
| 18211208 | HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ATTENTION-BASED NEURAL NETWORK | DEVORE, CHRISTOPHER DILLON | 2129 | §101§102§103§112 | Final Rejection | 20d | Pending | Jun 16, 2023 |
| 18125681 | CONTROL STREAM STITCHING FOR MULTICORE 3-D GRAPHICS RENDERING | RICKS, DONNA J | 2618 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Mar 23, 2023 |
| 18111178 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING FLOATING POINT NUMBERS | DUONG, HUY | — | §101§102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 17, 2023 |
| 18092132 | CONFIGURABLE POOLING PROCESSING UNIT FOR NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR | GUDAS, JAKOB OSCAR | — | §101§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 30, 2022 |
| 18072463 | MULTIPLICATION BY A RATIONAL IN HARDWARE WITH SELECTABLE ROUNDING MODE | BUI, KENNY KIM | — | §101§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Nov 30, 2022 |
| 17968025 | IMPLEMENTATION OF DISCRETE FOURIER-RELATED TRANSFORMS IN HARDWARE | LAROCQUE, EMILY E | 2182 | §101§102§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Oct 18, 2022 |
| 17850517 | IMPLEMENTATION OF POOLING AND UNPOOLING OR REVERSE POOLING IN HARDWARE | MENGISTU, TEWODROS E | 2100 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jun 27, 2022 |
| 17583411 | IMPLEMENTING DILATED CONVOLUTION IN HARDWARE | WAJE, CARLO C | 2151 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jan 25, 2022 |
| 17368384 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RUNNING DYNAMIC RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS IN HARDWARE | TRIEU, EM N | 2128 | §103 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Jul 06, 2021 |
| 17163808 | HIGH DEFINITION TIMING SYNCHRONISATION FUNCTION | NOWLIN, ERIC | 2474 | §112 | Final Rejection | 21d | Pending | Feb 01, 2021 |
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