Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: ARMSTRONG, ANGELA A

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2127 2626 2654 2658 2659

This examiner grants 74% of resolved cases

Analysis

Angela A. Armstrong is an examiner in Tech Center 2600 and Art Unit 2127. She has 657 resolved cases, maintaining an allowance rate of 73.8 percent. This 73.8 percent rate provides a metric for applicants to evaluate the frequency of patent grants. With 657 resolved cases, the data offers a historical record for practitioners to analyze when developing their prosecution strategy.

The data shows an interview lift of 8.7 percent, which is a statistic that describes the change in allowance probability following an interview. This 8.7 percent lift is a data point for practitioners to consider. The median days to allowance is 1399, providing a benchmark for the expected duration of the prosecution cycle. This 1399-day median is a key figure for managing the timeline for patent issuance. These figures from Tech Center 2600 and Art Unit 2127 serve as the basis for understanding the examiner's performance and the time required for prosecution.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

73.9%
Allow Rate
+11.9% vs TC avg
681
Total Applications
+8.8%
Interview Lift
1398
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 658 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

21.8%
§101 Eligibility
13.4%
§102 Novelty
44.7%
§103 Obviousness
7.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18999808 DIRECTING A VEHICLE CLIENT DEVICE TO USE ON-DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18866446 Dialog Generation Using Single-Speaker Documents Non-Final OA Google LLC
18794694 RECOMMENDING AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ACTION FOR INCLUSION IN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT ROUTINE Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
19026113 DETERMINING INPUT FOR SPEECH PROCESSING ENGINE Non-Final OA Magic Leap, Inc.
18956606 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A BANDWIDTH-EXTENDED SIGNAL ON THE BASIS OF AN INPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATION USING A COMBINATION OF A HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION AND A NON-HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18956655 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A BANDWIDTH-EXTENDED SIGNAL ON THE BASIS OF AN INPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATION USING A COMBINATION OF A HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION AND A NON-HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18956747 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A BANDWIDTH-EXTENDED SIGNAL ON THE BASIS OF AN INPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATION USING A COMBINATION OF A HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION AND A NON-HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18956633 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A BANDWIDTH-EXTENDED SIGNAL ON THE BASIS OF AN INPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATION USING A COMBINATION OF A HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION AND A NON-HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18956689 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A BANDWIDTH-EXTENDED SIGNAL ON THE BASIS OF AN INPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATION USING A COMBINATION OF A HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION AND A NON-HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18956709 APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING A REPRESENTATION OF A BANDWIDTH-EXTENDED SIGNAL ON THE BASIS OF AN INPUT SIGNAL REPRESENTATION USING A COMBINATION OF A HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION AND A NON-HARMONIC BANDWIDTH-EXTENSION Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18386942 ENTITY RESOLUTION USING AUDIO SIGNALS Final Rejection Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18235350 COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
18994282 CONVERSION APPARATUS, CONVERSION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
18321841 INTELLIGIBILITY ANALYSIS USING AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18975589 Media System with Closed-Captioning Data and/or Subtitle Data Generation Features Non-Final OA Roku, Inc.
18411379 CONTEXT-BASED VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM USING MACHINE LEARNING Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
18924660 DEEPFAKE DETECTION IN COMMUNICATION SESSIONS BASED ON VOICE SAMPLES Non-Final OA T-Mobile USA, Inc.
18146662 SPEECH INSTRUCTION CONTROL METHOD IN VEHICLE CABIN AND RELATED DEVICE Final Rejection Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd.
18511369 ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING TEXT TO SPEECH MODEL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME Final Rejection Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
18785051 Computer System, Computer-Implemented Method, And Computer Readable Media For Selecting Functions To Prompt A Large Language Model (LLM) Non-Final OA Shopify Inc.
19043677 DYNAMIC NETWORK ANALYSIS AND INTERACTIVITY USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL Non-Final OA Insight Direct USA, Inc.

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