Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: ABOUZAHRA, MAHMOUD KAMAL

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2486

This examiner grants 57% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

57.1%
Allow Rate
-0.9% vs TC avg
69
Total Applications
+4.4%
Interview Lift
953
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 28 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.5%
§101 Eligibility
12.2%
§102 Novelty
74.2%
§103 Obviousness
5.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18915214 VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
18511691 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FUSING SENSOR INFORMATION Final Rejection KIA CORPORATION
18463741 Sign Coding and Decoding Using Prediction Final Rejection Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
18560895 LOCATIONS IDENTIFICATIONS Non-Final OA Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
17840565 Intelligent Multi-Camera Switching with Machine Learning Non-Final OA Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
17914940 A SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING GUIDANCE Final Rejection KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
18195019 VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING SUBBLOCK BASED INTRA PREDICTION Final Rejection RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
18669706 SYSTEM AND METHOD USING REASONING FOR VIDEO ANOMALY DETECTION WITH LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
18565413 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM Final Rejection Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
19041390 Parallelogram Grid Predictions in Mesh Coding Non-Final OA TENCENT AMERICA LLC
19039629 MERGE CANDIDATE DERIVATION IMPROVEMENT BY USING INTRA TEMPLATE-MATCHING Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
19039633 SAMPLE-WISE EXTRAPOLATED INTRA PREDICTION Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
19037924 ANGULAR PREDICTION IN MESH PREDICTION Non-Final OA TENCENT AMERICA LLC
19035679 CONDITIONAL BILATERAL FILTER FOR INTRA PREDICTION Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
18127556 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSFORM COEFFICIENT SIGN PREDICTION AND CODING Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
18724889 VIDEO SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED Non-Final OA KT CORPORATION
18040901 CIRCUIT BOARD WITH ONBOARD LIGHT SOURCES Non-Final OA Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
18039801 IMAGE GUIDED CATHETER INSERTION SYSTEM AND METHOD Non-Final OA B. Braun Melsungen AG
18146296 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGING AND ANALYZING A MICROSCOPIC SAMPLE Final Rejection ViveSense, Inc.
17883325 INCOHERENT COLOR HOLOGRAPHY LATTICE LIGHT-SHEET (ICHLLS) Non-Final OA THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS FOR AND ON BEHALF OF NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
17270175 HYBRID METHOD OF ACQUIRING 3D DATA USING INTRAORAL SCANNER Non-Final OA CARESTREAM DENTAL TECHNOLOGY SHANGHAI CO., LTD.

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