Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: COLE, BRANDON S

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 2122 2126 2128 2816 2842

This examiner grants 79% of resolved cases

Analysis

Brandon S Cole is an examiner in Tech Center 2800 and Art Unit 2122. He has 1225 resolved cases and an allowance rate of 79.2 percent. This rate suggests the environment for applicants. The median days to allowance is 907, indicating the prosecution process timeline.

The interview lift is 7.5 percent. The 7.5 percent lift shows that interviews still provide a benefit. In Tech Center 2800, the 907 days median to allowance reflects the timeline for reaching a resolution.

With 1225 resolved cases, the examiner's statistics are reliable. The 79.2 percent allowance rate and the 907 days median to allowance are indicators for applicants in Art Unit 2122. The 7.5 percent interview lift remains an option for resolving outstanding issues. The combination of these metrics defines the current prosecution landscape for this examiner.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

79.2%
Allow Rate
+11.2% vs TC avg
1,257
Total Applications
+7.5%
Interview Lift
907
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 1225 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

12.5%
§101 Eligibility
32.7%
§102 Novelty
44.8%
§103 Obviousness
5.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19458425 DYNAMIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AGENT ORCHESTRATION USING A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL GATEWAY ROUTER Final Rejection Citibank, N.A.
18575363 LEARNING SYSTEM AND LEARNING METHOD Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18241611 LEARNING DEVICE Final Rejection NEC Corporation
17911715 RISK ASSESSMENT APPARATUS, RISK ASSESSMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18460647 DATA ANALYSIS DEVICE, DATA ANALYSIS METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
18500173 DEVICE AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR DETERMINING A STATE OF A TECHNICAL SYSTEM Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18011629 METHODS FOR GENERATING AND PROVIDING CAUSAL EXPLANATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS AND DEVICES THEREOF Non-Final OA Georgia Tech Research Corporation
18506507 EARLY FUSION OF NEURAL RAY GRAPH NETWORKS FOR MULTI-VIEW CAMERA SETUPS Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
18551844 EFFICIENT NEURAL CAUSAL DISCOVERY Final Rejection QUALCOMM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
17269858 SOLID-STATE IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Non-Final OA Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
18617372 ADAPTATION FRAMEWORK AND OPTIMIZATION FOR CUSTOMIZING FOUNDATION MODELS Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18512438 AUTOMLX COUNTERFACTUAL EXPLAINER (ACE) Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
17621146 COMPRESSION OF CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS
18239764 METHOD FOR GENERATING DYNAMIC NEURAL NETWORK AND ASSOCIATED NON-TRANSITORY MACHINE-READABLE MEDIUM Final Rejection MEDIATEK INC.
18398724 GENERATIVE NEURAL APPLICATION ENGINE Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18542517 EFFICIENT OPTIMIZATION OF MACHINE LEARNING PERFORMANCE Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18536154 COMPRESSION OF NEURAL NETWORKS WITH ORTHOGONAL MATRICES Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18204725 STORING ENTRIES IN AND RETRIEVING INFORMATION FROM AN EPISODIC OBJECT MEMORY Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18342817 SYMMETRY PRUNING TO INCREASE PLANNER SPEED Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18128510 REAL-TIME WORKFLOW INJECTION RECOMMENDATIONS Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18197149 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING A SUPPLEMENT INSTRUCTION SET USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Non-Final OA KPN INNOVATIONS, LLC.
18834497 Logic Model Preparation Support Device, Logic Model Preparation Support Method, and Logic Model Preparation Support Program Non-Final OA HITACHI, LTD.
18493331 NEURAL POINT PROCESS-BASED EVENT PREDICTION FOR MEDICAL DECISION MAKING Final Rejection NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
16237508 Neural Network Generator Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18617557 DATA PROCESSING METHOD, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA BEIJING VOLCANO ENGINE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18072083 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPUTING EXACT SUCCESS PROBABILITY FOR QUANTILE ESTIMATION Final Rejection YAHOO ASSETS LLC
17827400 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTING EXISTING EXPERTS FOR ENHANCED PREDICTIONS Non-Final OA YAHOO ASSETS LLC
18593310 DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM, DATA ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND DATA ANALYSIS METHOD Non-Final OA SHIMADZU CORPORATION
18628543 DETERMINING EDGE NODE CLIQUES VIA PROGRAMMATIC LABELLING ANALYSIS FOR FEDERATED LEARNING Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18365484 OPTIMIZED DEPLOYMENT OF CLOUD NATIVE WORKSPACES AND JOBS ACROSS MULTIPLE INFRASTRUCTURES FOR HIGH SCALABILITY AND PERFORMANCE Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.

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