Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Examiner: DE LA GARZA, CARLOS HEBERTO

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122 2182

This examiner grants 68% of resolved cases

Analysis

Carlos Heberto De La Garza is an examiner in Tech Center 2100 and Art Unit 2122. He has 19 resolved cases, with an allowance rate of 68.4%. This suggests a fair chance of success for applications in his queue.

The median days to allowance is 1486. The interview lift is 42.9%, which is a very high value. This indicates that interviews are a powerful tool for increasing the probability of an allowance, making them a key part of any prosecution strategy.

The 68.4% allowance rate across 19 resolved cases provides a benchmark for expectations. The 1486 days to allowance represents the timeline for successful prosecution. The 42.9% interview lift is a vital strategic factor for practitioners in Art Unit 2122. This combination of a moderate allowance rate and high interview lift suggests that active engagement is highly rewarded.

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

Performance Statistics

68.4%
Allow Rate
+13.4% vs TC avg
42
Total Applications
+42.9%
Interview Lift
1486
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 19 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.4%
§101 Eligibility
12.4%
§102 Novelty
46.3%
§103 Obviousness
26.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17530106 SYSTOLIC ARRAY CELLS WITH OUTPUT POST-PROCESSING Final Rejection Google LLC
18165802 CONFIGURABLE NONLINEAR ACTIVATION FUNCTION CIRCUITS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18162660 FLOATING POINT ATOMICS USING INTEGER HARDWARE Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18102582 FAST EIGHT-BIT FLOATING POINT (FP8) SIMULATION WITH LEARNABLE PARAMETERS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
17956844 IN-MEMORY ANALOG CHANNEL EQUALIZATION Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17648054 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING QUANTUM BRANCH-AND-BOUND ALGORITHMS WITH HEURISTICS Final Rejection JPMORGAN CHASE BANK , N.A.
17952296 SEQUENTIAL GROUP PROCESSING OF OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS Final Rejection FUJITSU LIMITED
18064223 INCREASED COMPUTATION EFFICIENCY WITH MULTI-STAGE 8-BIT FLOATING POINT MATRIX MULTIPLICATION WITH FORMAT CONVERSION Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17452425 PERFORMING A FLOATING-POINT MULTIPLY-ADD OPERATION IN A COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED ENVIRONMENT Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17737327 CIRCUIT MODULE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MATRIX MULTIPLICATION Non-Final OA Lemon Inc.
17743327 PERFORMING MATRIX VALUE INDICATION Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
17487813 PRIORITY ENCODER-BASED TECHNIQUES FOR COMPUTING THE MINIMUM OR THE MAXIMUM OF MULTIPLE VALUES Non-Final OA NVIDIA CORPORATION
18163878 COMPUTING CIRCUIT, COMPUTING METHOD, AND DECODER Non-Final OA Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
18167537 METHOD AND PROCESSING UNIT FOR GENERATING AN OUPUT FEATURE MAP Non-Final OA Arm Limited

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