Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: CARNES, THOMAS A

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2436

This examiner grants 67% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

67.1%
Allow Rate
+9.1% vs TC avg
95
Total Applications
+73.2%
Interview Lift
1180
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 70 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

8.2%
§101 Eligibility
9.2%
§102 Novelty
54.0%
§103 Obviousness
24.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18347830 System and method to evaluate encrypted data Final Rejection Bank of America Corporation
18729891 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VERIFYING DISPLAY TERMINAL, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
19133185 SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM OF VEHICLE AND VEHICLE INCLUDING THE SAME Non-Final OA LG ELECTRONICS INC.
18297084 Distributed, Private, Sparse Histograms in the Two-Server Model Final Rejection Google LLC
18729986 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPRESSED FAST ENCRYPTED SIMILARITY SEARCHING AND DATABASE ANALYSIS Non-Final OA KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
18346963 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN ENCRYPTED GLOBAL MODEL TRAINED BY FEDERATED LEARNING, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND PROVIDING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Siemens Healthineers AG
18572937 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR JOINTLY TRAINING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING MODEL BASED ON PRIVACY PROTECTION Final Rejection Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
18358777 DATA PREPROCESSING METHODS, DATA ENCRYPTION METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND DEVICES Final Rejection ALIPAY (HANGZHOU) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18298464 SECURE MULTI-PARTY COMPUTATION METHODS AND APPARATUSES Non-Final OA Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
18896418 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SYNCHRONIZING TRUSTED OPERATING SYSTEMS Non-Final OA ATI Technologies ULC
18358294 SECURING ACCESS OF STORAGE ARRAY SERVICES Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
18479894 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENCRYPTING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection Technology Innovation Institute - Sole Proprietorship LLC
17989594 ENTROPY DISTRIBUTION Final Rejection Cryptography Research, Inc.
18916915 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CYBERSECURITY SERVICES IN DUAL-STACK TRAFFIC PROCESSING WITHIN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS Non-Final OA Privafy Inc
18820475 LOCAL DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY USING STATIC RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY Non-Final OA University of South Alabama
18358315 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION OF TEXT DATA Final Rejection CRYPTO LAB INC.
18185707 APPARATUS FOR BOOTSTRAP PROCESSING HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTED MESSAGE AND METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA CRYPTO LAB INC.
18259395 SECURE APPLICATION BRING-UP WITH HASH CREATION DURING SECURE DOWNLOAD APPARATUS AND METHOD Final Rejection RAKUTEN SYMPHONY, INC.
18040536 A Method of Training a Submodule and Preventing Capture of an AI Module Final Rejection Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Private Limited

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