Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: CYGIEL, GARY W

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2137 2187 2188

This examiner grants 76% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

76.0%
Allow Rate
+21.0% vs TC avg
553
Total Applications
+9.7%
Interview Lift
1228
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 533 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

5.1%
§101 Eligibility
29.2%
§102 Novelty
42.4%
§103 Obviousness
17.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18354919 VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDED IN MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTENDING LIFE EXPECTANCY THEREOF Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18751604 SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FINE-GRAIN ADDRESS SPACE SELECTION IN A PROCESSOR Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18750817 System and Method for High Performance Secure Access to a Trusted Platform Module on a Hardware Virtualization Platform Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17819435 CLOUD STORAGE ACCELERATION LAYER FOR ZONED NAMESPACE DRIVES Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18491685 MASTER SLAVE MANAGED MEMORY STORAGE Final Rejection Micron Technology, Inc.
17496661 Fine Grain Data Migration to or from Borrowed Memory Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18585054 MEMORY, OPERATION METHOD OF MEMORY, AND OPERATION METHOD OF MEMORY SYSTEM Non-Final OA SK hynix Inc.
18935262 SHARING NODE STORAGE RESOURCES WITH THE ENTIRE CLUSTER Non-Final OA Red Hat, Inc.
18108653 Automatic Data Layout for Operation Chains Non-Final OA Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
17990092 EFFICIENT REDUCE-SCATTER VIA NEAR-MEMORY COMPUTATION Final Rejection ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
18973159 PREMATURE INCOMING PACKET PROCESSING Non-Final OA Next Silicon Ltd
18077686 INPUT CIRCUIT FOR ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK ARRAY Non-Final OA Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.

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