Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: BLANKENAGEL, BRYAN S

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2658

This examiner grants 67% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

67.4%
Allow Rate
+5.4% vs TC avg
400
Total Applications
+35.2%
Interview Lift
955
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 377 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

25.6%
§101 Eligibility
13.3%
§102 Novelty
49.3%
§103 Obviousness
6.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18596031 METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ACCENT CONVERSION AND SYSTEMS THEREOF Non-Final OA Sanas.ai Inc.
18207406 Speech Enhancement Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18570712 SPECTRUM CLASSIFIER FOR AUDIO CODING MODE SELECTION Final Rejection Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18521944 THREE-DIMENSIONAL AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18204884 ACCELERATED TASK PERFORMANCE Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18532893 System and Method for Disentangling Audio Signal Information Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18562663 Enhancing Audio Content of a Captured Sense Final Rejection Google LLC
18350464 Augmentation of Audiographic Images for Improved Machine Learning Final Rejection Google LLC
18258824 VOICE EXTRACTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA BEIJING YOUZHUJU NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
18435334 AUDIO SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME Non-Final OA Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
18387928 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONVERTING AN INPUT CONTENT ITEM BASED ON CONTEXTS Final Rejection Adeia Guides Inc.
18627208 Quality Score Predictor for Transcoded Data Non-Final OA T-Mobile Innovations LLC
17936705 APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR GENERATING AND SELECTIVELY OUTPUTTING ABSTRACTIVE CONTEXT SUMMARIES FOR MULTI-PARTY COMMUNICATION CHANNELS Final Rejection ATLASSIAN US, INC.
18266432 VOICE RECOGNITION MODEL TRAINING METHOD, VOICE RECOGNITION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co., Ltd.
18542728 METHOD FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK AND A DATA PROCESSING DEVICE Non-Final OA GN Audio A/S

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