Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: BARBEE, MANUEL L

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 2857 2864 2898

This examiner grants 82% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

81.7%
Allow Rate
+13.7% vs TC avg
946
Total Applications
+14.7%
Interview Lift
1091
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 916 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

21.9%
§101 Eligibility
10.6%
§102 Novelty
57.0%
§103 Obviousness
7.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18617232 Energy Expenditure Non-Final OA NIKE, Inc.
18176057 ADDRESSING LOSS OF PERFORMANCE IN THE PREDICTION OF THE NEXT BEST COMPRESSOR IN A STREAM DATA PLATFORM Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
17955952 ADVANCED FUSION OF PHYSICS-BASED AND MACHINE LEARNING BASED STATE-OF-CHARGE AND STATE-OF-HEALTH MODELS IN BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Non-Final OA Enevate Corporation
18462324 SUBMERSION DETECTION, UNDERWATER DEPTH AND LOW-LATENCY TEMPERATURE ESTIMATION USING WEARABLE DEVICE Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
17988507 COMPETING PATH RING-OSCILLATOR FOR DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF A LATCH TIMING WINDOW PARAMETERS Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18558103 PREDICTION DEVICE AND PREDICTION METHOD FOR AT LEAST ONE BRAKE SYSTEM COMPONENT OF A BRAKE SYSTEM OF A VEHICLE Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18258638 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING AUTOMATED CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC CROSSOVER STUDIES Final Rejection Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
18243059 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PARAMETER CONTROL METHOD Non-Final OA Tokyo Electron Limited
18476463 DETERMINING MILLED VOLUME OR MILLED AREA OF A MILLED SURFACE Final Rejection Wirtgen GmbH
18496565 MEASURING DEVICE, DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND DIAGNOSTIC METHOD USING THE SAME Non-Final OA SAMSUNG SDI CO., LTD.
18508681 APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROCESSOR FOR CHANGING UNDERWATER DEVICE OPERATION Non-Final OA Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
18493094 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM ENCODED WITH COMPUTER-READABLE INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM Non-Final OA OMRON Corporation
18533998 LIGHT OUTPUT ESTIMATION METHOD FOR LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE Non-Final OA NIKKISO CO., LTD.
18612986 SCALABLE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING HEALTHY CONDITION SCORES IN RENEWABLE ASSET MANAGEMENT Non-Final OA Utopus Insights, Ins.
18460123 ASSOCIATION OF BOTTOM-UP KEYPOINTS BASED ON BOUNDING BOX EXTENTS Non-Final OA GM Cruise Holdings LLC
18515991 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE PERFORMANCE IMPACT OF CHANGES IN A COMPUTING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Lakeside Software, LLC
18494788 DYNAMIC SAMPLING METHOD FOR ANALOG SENSOR AND DEVICES THEREOF Non-Final OA SHENZHEN GULI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18557038 FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENERGY STORAGE POWER STATION BASED ON DISTRIBUTED NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA National Engineering Research Center of Advanced Energy Storage Materials (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd
18270504 HIGH-PRECISION VEHICLE VELOCITY CALCULATION METHOD Non-Final OA HUIZHOU DESAY SV AUTOMOTIVE CO., LTD.
18246094 TRAINED AUTOENCODER, TRAINED AUTOENCODER GENERATION METHOD, NON-STATIONARY VIBRATION DETECTION METHOD, NON-STATIONARY VIBRATION DETECTION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Final Rejection SI SYNERGY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18073017 Quality Assurance for Unattended Computer Vision Counting Non-Final OA United States of America, as represented by the Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
17521056 Quality Assurance for Unattended Computer Vision Counting Non-Final OA United States of America, as represented by the Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
17787849 EVALUATION SYSTEM AND EVALUATION METHOD Non-Final OA NATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH ORGANIZATION
16614754 Networked Impact System and Apparatus Non-Final OA Braven Sport Combat Equip, Inc

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