Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2124 2148 2164 2421 2699 2857 3662 4100

This examiner grants 52% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

51.7%
Allow Rate
-8.3% vs TC avg
214
Total Applications
+36.9%
Interview Lift
1616
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 147 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

25.3%
§101 Eligibility
4.9%
§102 Novelty
45.2%
§103 Obviousness
24.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19363681 Persistent Cognitive Machine with Temporally Synchronized Multimodal Processing and Typed Latent Entity Management Non-Final OA AtomBeam Technologies Inc.
18421475 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING PREDICTIVE MODEL PREDICTING PRODUCT FAILURE Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18305676 NON-LINEAR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL COST FUNCTION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INFERENCE Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18171433 METHOD OF TRAINING BINARIZED NEURAL NETWORK WITH PARAMETERIZED WEIGHT CLIPPING AND MEMORY DEVICE USING THE SAME Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18171035 NEURAL NETWORK VERIFICATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK CONTROLLERS Non-Final OA Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
18011873 Meta-Learning Bi-Directional Gradient-Free Artificial Neural Networks Final Rejection Google LLC
17940568 Large-Scale Architecture Search in Graph Neural Networks via Synthetic Data Final Rejection Google LLC
18087877 METHODS, SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR DECOMPOSING A LAYER IN A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18406712 USING MACHINE LEARNING TO DETERMINE DATA QUALITY RULES Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
18068987 EFFICIENT MACHINE LEARNING MODEL ARCHITECTURES FOR TRAINING AND INFERENCE Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18148138 UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS OF EVIDENTIAL DEEP LEARNING NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18537086 GUIDANCE FUNCTION(S) FOR USE OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS WITHIN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18335848 DATASET EXPLORATION PIPELINE USING CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE GRAPHS AND NEURAL GRAPHICAL MODELS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18310242 MATCHING BASED INTENT UNDERSTANDING WITH TRANSFER LEARNING Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17957891 DOMAIN-BASED LEARNING FOR AUTOENCODER MODELS Non-Final OA SAP SE
17382723 Multi-Level Time Series Forecaster Non-Final OA Ciena Corporation
18624754 SURVEILLANCE USING TRANSFER LEARNING OF A FEDERATED MODEL Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
17715768 Shuffled Secure Multiparty Deep Learning Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18535093 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ONLINE CONTINUAL LEARNING BY USING SHORTCUT DEBIASING Non-Final OA KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
17145876 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH NEURAL NETWORK AND TRAINING Non-Final OA Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
18511164 SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT AND RESPONSE SYSTEMS IN A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK USING AI Non-Final OA BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
17398673 PERFORMANCE-AWARE SIZE REDUCTION FOR NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Nvidia Corporation
18398458 RECALCULATION METHOD OF BACKPROPAGATION IN A MANNER THAT SELECT THE LAYERS TO STORE THE OUTPUT IN MEMORY Non-Final OA Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
18531358 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR AUGMENTING TRAINING DATA OR RETRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Infineon Technologies AG
17938583 SYSTEM, DEVICES AND/OR PROCESSES FOR EXECUTING A NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE SEARCH Final Rejection Arm Limited
18476455 METHOD AND SYSTEM TO OPTIMIZE NEURAL NETWORK SCORING Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17102830 TRANSACTION RESPONSE TIME ESTIMATION Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17500598 VECTOR ACTIVATION FUNCTION TO SUPPORT MACHINE LEARNING INFERENCE AND OTHER PROCESSES Non-Final OA MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
17957508 Selecting a Tiling Scheme for Processing Instances of Input Data Through a Neural Netwok Non-Final OA ATI Technologies ULC

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