Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: ARMSTRONG, JONATHAN D

Tech Center 3600 • Art Units: 3645

This examiner grants 52% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

52.5%
Allow Rate
+0.5% vs TC avg
478
Total Applications
+1.5%
Interview Lift
1385
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 415 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

3.5%
§101 Eligibility
20.5%
§102 Novelty
55.6%
§103 Obviousness
18.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18484140 Iterative Cement Bond Logging Without Calibration Final Rejection Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
18393905 CODED ULTRASONIC SENSING WITH STAGGERED BURSTS Final Rejection Texas Instruments Incorporated
18023796 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, USER TERMINAL, CONTROL METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18315647 NON-HERMITIAN COMPLEMENTARY METAMATERIALS (NHCMMS), SYSTEMS INCLUDING AN NHCMM, AND METHODS UTILIZING AN NHCMM Non-Final OA Georgia Tech Research Corporation
18598578 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO DETECT IMPROPER MEDIA LOADING Final Rejection Hand Held Products, Inc.
18573545 ACOUSTIC DEPTH MAP Final Rejection Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
18483688 Method and Device for Providing Training Data for Training a Data-Based Object Classification Model for an Ultrasonic Sensor System Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18476777 ICE BLOCKAGE DETECTION AND MITIGATION FOR ULTRASONIC SENSORS Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18103774 ACOUSTIC DETECTION OF DISGUISED VEHICLES Final Rejection ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
18731283 FIBER-OPTIC ACOUSTIC ANTENNA ARRAY AS AN ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Non-Final OA NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
18641021 ELECTROMECHANICAL CONNECTOR COVER FOR AN ELECTROMECHANICAL CONNECTOR OF AN ULTRASOUND IMAGING PROBE Non-Final OA GE Precision Healthcare LLC
18724978 OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE Non-Final OA AISIN CORPORATION
18280788 OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE Final Rejection AISIN CORPORATION
18096621 ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE Non-Final OA Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
17816075 ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICE WITH DIELECTRIC LAYER FOR TRANSVERSE LEAKAGE SUPPRESSION Final Rejection Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
18799332 OBJECT DETECTION USING ULTRASONIC SENSORS FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18701597 Detection of objects with a synthetic antenna Non-Final OA THALES
18753908 Method And Apparatus For Wireless Communications Non-Final OA Northeastern University
18435421 Acoustic Subwavelength Imaging System Final Rejection Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
18725236 SCANNING A BODY OF WATER WITH A FISHING SONAR APPARATUS Non-Final OA UAB Deeper
18608912 ELECTROSTATIC TRANSDUCER Final Rejection Sumitomo Riko Company Limited
18652405 SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR FAN BEAM TRANSDUCERS Non-Final OA CERULEAN SONAR LLC
18614066 SELF-ORIENTING SPHERICAL SENSING NODE AND METHOD Non-Final OA SERCEL
18343079 QUICK LATCH SEISMIC DATA ACQUISITION OCEAN BOTTOM NODE AND METHOD Non-Final OA SERCEL
18555764 CONTEMPORANEOUS FIRING SCHEME FOR ACOUSTIC INSPECTION Final Rejection EVIDENT CANADA, INC.
18686781 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF A SEISMIC EVENT Final Rejection THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
18572192 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING ULTRASONIC IMAGING WITH ROW-COLUMN ADDRESSING Final Rejection MODULEUS
17946263 FIGURE OF MERIT TUNING FOR SONAR Final Rejection NAVICO, INC.
18239440 AUDIO TRANSMISSIONS WITH INTERLEAVED DATA PAYLOADS Non-Final OA LISNR,INC.
18367387 ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER WITH REDUCED CROSS-TALK AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE Non-Final OA CLINISONIX INC.

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