Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: COCCHI, MICHAEL EDWARD

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2128 2147 2188

This examiner grants 39% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

39.0%
Allow Rate
-16.0% vs TC avg
230
Total Applications
+43.7%
Interview Lift
1562
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 182 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

31.9%
§101 Eligibility
8.5%
§102 Novelty
39.2%
§103 Obviousness
16.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17654632 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEISMIC VELOCITY AND ANISOTROPIC PARAMETER MODELING Non-Final OA Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
17944818 DESIGNING SMART ENVIRONMENTAL EFFICIENCY FLUIDS Final Rejection Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
17726206 POLLUTANT SENSOR PLACEMENT Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17881267 SIMULATION METHOD, SIMULATION DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM Non-Final OA SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
17446639 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE Non-Final OA KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
19208104 PARALLEL ELECTRON SWARM PARAMETER CALCULATION METHOD TAKING ION DYNAMICS INTO CONSIDERATION, AND RELATED APPARATUS Final Rejection XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
17630231 ROCK MASS ENGINEERING CROSS-SCALE SIMULATION CALCULATION METHOD BASED ON REV ALL-REGION COVERAGE Final Rejection SHANDONG UNIVERSITY
17707868 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING THE EVOLUTION OF SIMULATION RESULTS FOR AN INTERNET OF THINGS NETWORK Non-Final OA FUJITSU LIMITED
17651960 Micro-Level and Macro-Level Predictions in Sports Non-Final OA STATS LLC
17516246 SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR TRACKING ONE OR MORE SURGICAL LANDMARKS Non-Final OA Medtronic Navigation, Inc.
18072075 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BUILDING THERMAL MODEL OF POWER LITHIUM-ION BATTERY BASED ON ELECTROCHEMICAL MECHANISM Non-Final OA Shanghai Jiao Tong University
17558115 TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION WITH REACTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS Final Rejection DASSAULT SYSTEMES
17929580 AUTOMATED GENERATION OF FINITE ELEMENT MESHES FROM LASER SCANNED DATA Final Rejection Northeastern University
17799474 A DIGITAL TWIN FRAMEWORK OF WELD JOINT FATIGUE BASED ON STRUCTURAL STRESS METHOD Final Rejection DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
17944009 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLEANING OPTICAL ELEMENTS IN EUV OPTICAL SYSTEMS Non-Final OA KLA Corporation
18011401 System and Method for Application-Dependent Selection of Batteries with Differentiable Programming Non-Final OA CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
17538497 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INTERFACING A TESTBENCH TO CIRCUIT SIMULATION Non-Final OA Xilinx, Inc.
17809685 BOUNDING BOX-BASED VISUALIZATION OF COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (CAD) MODELS VIA PIXEL COLOR ANALYSES Final Rejection Siemens Industry Software Inc.
17454953 MACHINE-IMPLEMENTABLE METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENCODING/DECODING VARIABLES IN ENGINEERING PROBLEMS Non-Final OA UNIVERSITEIT GENT
17924585 FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACE FILTER DESIGN METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM Non-Final OA KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE
18585634 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AT LEAST ONE OF AN INFLUX EVENT AND A LOSS EVENT DURING WELL DRILLING Non-Final OA PASON SYSTEMS CORP.
17633398 Simulation of a Battery Non-Final OA TWAICE Technologies GmbH
17905025 SYSTEM, METHOD FOR INDICATING MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE Non-Final OA Heraeus Amloy Technologies GmbH
17926596 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING IMAGED OBJECT LOCATION Non-Final OA BUILDOTS LTD.
17126456 Method for Fast Detection of Unconstrained Motion and Low-stiffness Connections in Finite Element Modeling Final Rejection Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp.
17261260 THE METHOD OF DETERMINING A PRODUCTION WELL FLOW PROFILE, INCLUDING DETERMINATION OF HYDRODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF RESERVOIR PAY ZONE Final Rejection TGT Oil Well Equipment Factory - Sole Proprietorship L.L.C.

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