Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: COOK, BRIAN S

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2123 2127 2146 2187

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

61.6%
Allow Rate
+6.6% vs TC avg
526
Total Applications
+29.8%
Interview Lift
1292
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 492 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

9.8%
§101 Eligibility
1.5%
§102 Novelty
85.4%
§103 Obviousness
2.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18145740 VIRTUAL FLOW RATE TEST Non-Final OA Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
17725964 SIMULATION OF MODIFICATIONS TO AN ELECTRICAL GRID Final Rejection X Development LLC
17979112 GENERATING DOWNHOLE FLUID COMPOSITIONS FOR WELLBORE OPERATIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
17762837 Method for Generating a Digital Twin of a System or Device Non-Final OA Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
17710226 SURGICAL STAPLER RELOAD SIMULATION Final Rejection Cilag GmbH International
17809066 CONTEXT AWARE OPTIMIZED DIGITAL TWIN MODEL CREATION Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17647180 SOURCE OPERATOR RELATED TECHNIQUES FOR USE IN STREAMING ANALYTICS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17699395 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED SYSTEM IMPLEMENTING PROXY MODELS FOR PHYSICS-BASED SIMULATORS Final Rejection C3.ai, Inc.
17915005 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SIMULATION Non-Final OA OMRON Corporation
17950594 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DESIGN Non-Final OA FERMI RESEARCH ALLIANCE, LLC
17934821 DESIGN EXPLORER FOR COMPOSING PRODUCTS USING COMMON MODULAR SUBSYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS Non-Final OA Raytheon Company
17571372 3-DIMENSIONAL MODEL CREATION USING WHOLE EYE FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF HUMAN OCULAR STRUCTURES Non-Final OA ACE VISION GROUP, INC.
17747017 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING TUBE ELEMENTS Final Rejection HCL Technologies Limited
17011088 Method and Apparatus for Automatic Underhood Thermal Modeling Non-Final OA Dassault Systemes Americas Corp.
17820246 GENERATING ENHANCED EXPLODED VIEW FOR DESIGN OBJECT Final Rejection CLO Virtual Fashion Inc.
18415394 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR CONTINUOUS OPERATION OF A COLD-ATOM DEVICE USING A SEPARATE RESERVOIR ARRAY Final Rejection Atom Computing Inc.
18448641 SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DATABASE CHANGE MANAGEMENT Final Rejection Liquibase, Inc.
17324704 DISTINCT ELEMENT ROCK BLASTING MOVEMENT METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND SYSTEMS Final Rejection Dyno Nobel Inc.
17994772 METHOD OF MODELING USER-CUSTOMIZED ASSISTIVE TOOL, PROGRAM AND APPARATUS THEREFOR Non-Final OA SeeAnn Solution Co., Ltd.
17920700 NUCLEAR CROSS SECTION DOPPLER BROADENING METHOD AND APPARATUS Non-Final OA Changyuan LIU
17899346 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING TIME DELAY IN EXTRACTION AND SEPARATION PROCESS OF RARE EARTH Non-Final OA EAST CHINA JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY

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