Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: AKANBI, ISIAKA O

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 2877 2884 2886

This examiner grants 76% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

76.0%
Allow Rate
+8.0% vs TC avg
1105
Total Applications
+23.4%
Interview Lift
975
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 1071 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

2.6%
§101 Eligibility
43.9%
§102 Novelty
39.7%
§103 Obviousness
5.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18882312 MEASUREMENT OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR METROLOGY INSPECTION AND METHOD OF MEASURING OVERLAY USING THE SAME Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18808222 ATTITUDE DETERMINING DEVICE, VEHICLE LAMP SYSTEM, ATTITUDE DETERMINING METHOD, AND CALIBRATION METHOD Non-Final OA Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
18578067 OBJECTIVE LENS AND SAMPLE ANALYZER Non-Final OA Sony Group Corporation
18688045 COLOR DIFFRACTION TEST DEVICE AND TEST METHOD THEREOF, AND COLOR DIFFRACTION TEST SYSTEM Final Rejection BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
18755217 REPAIR DIAGRAM GENERATION DEVICE, REPAIR DIAGRAM GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection FUJIFILM Corporation
18828801 METHOD TO DETERMINE LINE ANGLE AND ROTATION OF MULTIPLE PATTERNING Non-Final OA Applied Materials, Inc.
18485784 OPTICAL ALIGNMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SURFACE MOUNTABLE OPTICAL MODULE Final Rejection ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
18330751 ACOUSTIC TWEEZER Final Rejection KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
18476551 MODULE PACKAGING ARCHITECTURE TO REDUCE CROSSTALK IN AN OPTICAL SENSOR Non-Final OA STMicroelectronics International N.V.
18846219 APPARATUS FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE MEASUREMENT Non-Final OA UIF (UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY FOUNDATION), YONSEI UNIVERSITY
18853862 OPTICAL DETECTOR AND SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENT DEVICE Non-Final OA HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
18838738 OPTICAL APPARATUS Non-Final OA RENISHAW PLC
18855565 CONFIGURABLE PRINTED OPTICAL ROUTING FOR PARALLEL OPTICAL DETECTION Non-Final OA ASML Netherlands B.V.
18864133 WAVELENGTH-SCANNING-BASED LENSLESS FOURIER PTYCHOGRAPHIC DIFFRACTION TOMOGRAPHY MICROSCOPY METHOD Non-Final OA Nanjing University of Science and Technology
18939263 FLOW CYTOMETER Non-Final OA Beckman Coulter, Inc.
18884050 NONLINEAR OPTICAL STOKES ELLIPSOMETERS Non-Final OA FemtoMetrix, Inc.
18830278 INSPECTION SYSTEM Non-Final OA Brooks Automation (Germany) GmbH
18282759 CHROMATIC CONFOCAL MEASURING SYSTEM FOR HIGH-SPEED DISTANCE MEASUREMENT Non-Final OA PRECITEC OPTRONIK GMBH
18797357 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HIGH-RESOLUTION REFLECTION TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING Non-Final OA Tomocube, Inc.
18786611 OPTICAL POSITION-MEASURING DEVICE Non-Final OA JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GmbH
18485286 METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE PHASE AND/OR REFRACTIVE INDEX OF A REGION OF AN OBJECT, AND MICROSCOPE FOR DETERMINING THE PHASE AND/OR REFRACTIVE INDEX OF A REGION OF AN OBJECT Final Rejection Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
18705294 Optical Article Inspection Apparatus and Method Final Rejection Transitions Optical, Ltd.
18690967 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR QUALITY CONTROL OF OPHTHALMIC LENSES Final Rejection Schneider GmbH & Co. KG
18117722 APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF GRAPHENE OXIDE COATINGS Final Rejection Via Separations, Inc.

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