Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: BERMUDEZ LOZADA, ALFREDO

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 2825

This examiner grants 89% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

89.0%
Allow Rate
+21.0% vs TC avg
557
Total Applications
+1.6%
Interview Lift
849
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 518 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

1.2%
§101 Eligibility
44.3%
§102 Novelty
40.7%
§103 Obviousness
8.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18725991 METHOD FOR OPERATING FERROELECTRIC-BASED THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLASH MEMORY INCLUDING DATA STORAGE PATTERN Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18758646 SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE AND SELF-REFRESH METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18618456 START-UP CIRCUIT FOR BANDGAP REFERENCES IN A NAND FLASH Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18602636 METHOD OF PROGRAMMING DATA IN NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE AND NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE PERFORMING THE SAME Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18534220 MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING VERTICAL CHANNEL TRANSISTOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18529365 MEMORY DEVICE AND SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE PHYSICAL INTERFACES Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18783018 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY BASED COMPUTE-IN-MEMORY CELL Non-Final OA Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
18760660 MEMORY DEVICES WITH DUAL-SIDE DISCHARGE AND METHODS FOR OPERATING THE SAME Non-Final OA Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
18337267 STACKED TRANSISTORS IN MEMORY CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF OPERATING SAME Non-Final OA TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
18086639 AUTONOMOUS DIMM WRITE LEVELING TRAINING Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18781524 LOGICAL BLOCK CONSTRUCTION FOR PHYSICAL BLOCKS COMPRISING MULTIPLE ERASE BLOCKS COUPLED TO A SAME STRING Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18780167 GANGED SINGLE LEVEL CELL VERIFY IN A MEMORY DEVICE Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18636584 PRE-PROGRAM PASS TO REDUCE SYSTEM BUFFER REQUIREMENT WHEN PROGRAMMING QUAD-LEVEL CELL (QLC) MEMORY Final Rejection Micron Technology, Inc.
18521382 WEIGHTED WEAR LEVELING FOR IMPROVING UNIFORMITY Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18888253 SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE Non-Final OA KIOXIA CORPORATION
18411412 ELECTRONIC SYSTEM RELATED TO DETECTING A RESULT OF A RUPTURE OPERATION Non-Final OA SK hynix Inc.
18455625 MEMORY DEVICE FOR SELF-SEARCHING FOR BOUNDARY WORD LINE, METHOD FOR OPERATING MEMORY DEVICE, AND MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING MEMORY DEVICE Final Rejection SK hynix Inc.
18395336 OPERATION METHOD FOR MEMORY, MEMORY, MEMORY SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM Non-Final OA Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
18584371 MEMORIES AND MEMORY COMPONENTS WITH INTERCONNECTED AND REDUNDANT DATA INTERFACES Non-Final OA Rambus Inc.
18756731 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR AMPLIFIER CIRCUITS FOR READING MRAM MEMORY CELLS Non-Final OA Sandisk Technologies, Inc.
18601389 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH PROGRAM-VERIFY AT COMMON VOLTAGE Final Rejection Sandisk Technologies, Inc.
18895326 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PARALLEL ANALOG IN-MEMORY COMPUTING Non-Final OA NANJING UNIVERSITY
18267797 ELECTRIC CIRCUIT ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A FERROELECTRIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR, AND MEMORY CELL Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
17893071 Testing Circuitry And Methods For Analog Neural Memory In Artificial Neural Network Non-Final OA Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.
18749166 CROSSBAR CIRCUITS FOR PERFORMING CONVOLUTION OPERATIONS Non-Final OA TetraMem Inc.
18674402 OPERATION METHOD OF FERROELECTRIC MEMORY Final Rejection Wuxi Smart Memories Technologies Co., Ltd.

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