Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: COLUCCI, MICHAEL C

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2122 2626 2655 2656 2658

This examiner grants 76% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

75.9%
Allow Rate
+13.9% vs TC avg
1,033
Total Applications
+15.2%
Interview Lift
1152
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 999 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

3.6%
§101 Eligibility
2.9%
§102 Novelty
86.9%
§103 Obviousness
1.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18428821 METHOD OF DETERMINING FALSE REJECTION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18416589 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF LOW LATENCY SPEECH ENHANCEMENT USING AUTOREGRESSIVE CONDITIONING-BASED NEURAL NETWORK MODEL Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18842141 Speech Synthesizer and Method for Speech Synthesis Non-Final OA Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
18718154 EXTRACTION DEVICE Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18708173 AR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AR DEVICE Final Rejection LG ELECTRONICS INC.
18634519 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVICE FOR ROBUST MULTIMODAL ENCODER FOR PERSON REPRESENTATIONS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA LG ELECTRONICS INC.
17571425 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR STREAMABLE MULTIMODAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18789219 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TRAINING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) TOTAL DURATION-AWARE MODEL TO CONTROL THE TOTAL DURATION OF SPEECH UTTERANCES BY A TEXT-TO-SPEECH (TTS) COMPUTING SYTEM Non-Final OA MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
18815537 TWO-PASS END TO END SPEECH RECOGNITION Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18598523 CONNECTING DIFFERENT ASR APPLICATION DOMAINS WITH SPEAKER-TAGS Final Rejection Google LLC
18471876 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EFFICIENT SPEECH REPRESENTATION Non-Final OA JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
18784900 METHOD OF GENERATING TRAINING DATA, READABLE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Final Rejection Beijing Youzhuju Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18718717 SAMPLE GENERATION BASED ON JOINT PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18667260 VOICE OPERATION DEVICE THAT OPERATES OPERATED DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING VOICE OPERATION PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, AND VOICE OPERATING SYSTEM Final Rejection KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
18808845 GLOBAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT Non-Final OA Paypal, Inc.
18422140 STREAMLINED FRAMEWORK NAVIGATION WITH PATH SUMMARIES Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18483089 TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING CAPTURED HUMAN REASONING Non-Final OA Nvidia Corporation
18763719 AUDIO ENHANCEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF AN IMMERSIVE AUDIO EXPERIENCE Non-Final OA SHURE ACQUISITION HOLDINGS, INC.
18423490 AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM CONTEXTUALLY BIASED FOR MEDICAL SPEECH Final Rejection Verily Life Sciences LLC
18409077 VOICE ASSIST SYSTEM AND METHOD Non-Final OA GM Global Technology Operations LLC
18834798 ESTIMATION APPARATUS, LEARNING APPARATUS, ESTIMATION METHOD, LEARNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA University of Tsukuba
18697907 METHOD FOR ANALYSING A NOISY SOUND SIGNAL FOR THE RECOGNITION OF CONTROL KEYWORDS AND OF A SPEAKER OF THE ANALYSED NOISY SOUND SIGNAL Non-Final OA UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER
18667835 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING VIA INTEGRATION OF CASE-SPECIFIC AND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE Final Rejection Epiq eDiscovery Solutions, Inc.
18194982 APPLYING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) TECHNIQUES TO TIME SERIES DATA TO DERIVE ATTRIBUTES FOR USE WITH A MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA EQUIFAX INC.
18403008 EYEWEAR DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE Final Rejection Solos Technology Limited

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