Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: BOYLAN, JAMES T

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2486

This examiner grants 63% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

62.6%
Allow Rate
+4.6% vs TC avg
521
Total Applications
+11.8%
Interview Lift
1000
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 487 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

1.8%
§101 Eligibility
13.0%
§102 Novelty
50.3%
§103 Obviousness
23.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18974013 IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD Final Rejection Sony Group Corporation
18704287 LIGHT SOURCE UNIT AND VEHICLE Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
18808006 VIDEO SUPPORT IN A MULTI-APERTURE MOBILE CAMERA WITH A SCANNING ZOOM CAMERA Final Rejection Corephotonics Ltd.
18770422 DETERMINING AND MAPPING LOCATION-BASED INFORMATION FOR A VEHICLE Non-Final OA Lyft, Inc.
18910632 IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, METHODS FOR THE SAME, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18045025 STEREOSCOPIC IMAGING APPARATUS WITH MULTIPLE FIXED MAGNIFICATION LEVELS Non-Final OA Alcon Inc.
18683775 IMAGE ACQUISITION APPARATUS, INSPECTION APPARATUS, AND IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD Final Rejection RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
18946812 VIDEO ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING BITSTREAM Final Rejection Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
18520886 MONITORING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Gentex Corporation
18339302 INTRA-PREDICTION FUSION FOR VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18933931 IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CONVERT LATERAL SCANNING INTO AXIAL REMOTE FOCUSING Non-Final OA THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
18358903 HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY AND IMAGE DISPLAYING METHOD Non-Final OA SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.
19033943 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR POST-RECONSTRUCTION FILTERING Non-Final OA InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
19025481 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENCODING/DECODING AN IMAGE UNIT COMPRISING IMAGE DATA REPRESENTED BY A LUMINANCE CHANNEL AND AT LEAST ONE CHROMINANCE CHANNEL Non-Final OA INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
18994855 Method and Apparatus of Improving Performance of Convolutional Cross-Component Model in Video Coding System Non-Final OA MEDIATEK INC.
18899389 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR HIGH PRECISION INTRA PREDICTION Final Rejection BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
17313987 VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE USING REFERENCE SAMPLE Final Rejection VIDAXIO LLC
18395165 FLEXIBLE ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT BOARD FOR A MULTI-CAMERA ENDOSCOPE Final Rejection EndoChoice, Inc.
18685096 EMITTER ARRAY WITH TWO OR MORE INDEPENDENTLY DRIVEN AREAS Final Rejection TRINAMIX GMBH
18787898 Imaging System and Method for Identifying a Boundary Between Active and Inactive Portions of a Digital Image and Applying Settings in Response Final Rejection KARL STORZ Imaging, Inc.
18782171 Microscopy system and method for processing a microscope image Final Rejection Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
18766742 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGES OF A SCENE Final Rejection Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, Inc.
18715883 UV SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AN ALPHA CHANNEL Non-Final OA The Invisible Pixel Inc.
18600232 THERMAL IMAGING INCLUDING AN EXTENDED SHORT WAVE INFRARED LIGHT SOURCE Final Rejection LightPath Technologies, Inc.

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