Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: DICKERSON, CHAD S

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2625 2672 2681 2682 2683

This examiner grants 63% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

62.7%
Allow Rate
+0.7% vs TC avg
638
Total Applications
+23.0%
Interview Lift
1171
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 600 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.4%
§101 Eligibility
3.4%
§102 Novelty
93.9%
§103 Obviousness
1.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18275144 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18432169 METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GENERATING SUPER RESOLUTION IMAGE Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18460393 PACKAGED PRODUCT SCAN Final Rejection Snap Inc.
18628019 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18292356 IDENTIFYING ANATOMICAL FEATURES Non-Final OA KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
18268338 MOTION COMPENSATION IN ANGIOGRAPHIC IMAGES Final Rejection KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
17788348 METHOD OF PROCESSING COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY (CT) DATA FOR FILTER BACK PROJECTION (FBP) TO SUPPRESS IMAGE CONE BEAM ARTIFACTS (CBA) FOR RECONSTRUCTED IMAGES Non-Final OA KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
18643838 MEDIA CONVEYING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND MEDIA CONVEYING METHOD Non-Final OA PFU LIMITED
18339073 Latency Correction for a Camera Image Final Rejection Apple Inc.
18039770 PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE Final Rejection HOYA CORPORATION
17540200 DISPLAY CONTROL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT APPLICABLE TO PERFORMING REAL-TIME VIDEO CONTENT TEXT DETECTION AND SPEECH AUTOMATIC GENERATION IN DISPLAY DEVICE Non-Final OA Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
18011888 Determining Chest Conditions from Radiograph Data via Machine Learning Final Rejection Google LLC
18012187 Self-Supervised Machine Learning for Medical Image Analysis Final Rejection Google LLC
17769288 IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NIKON CORPORATION
18532296 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE PROBING OF PIECEWISE CONTINUOUS SURFACES Non-Final OA FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
18405750 IMAGE SUPER-RESOLUTION METHOD BASED ON KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION COMPRESSION MODEL AND DEVICE THEREOF Non-Final OA Zhejiang University
18260459 QUANTIFICATION OF CONDITIONS ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGES ACROSS STAINING MODALITIES USING A MULTI-TASK DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORK Non-Final OA Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases
18306177 COMPRESSION OF LIDAR POINTCLOUD DATA ACQUIRED FROM A LIDAR SENSOR COUPLED TO AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICE USING A LOSSLESS COMPRESSION ALGORITHM Final Rejection GM Cruise Holdings LLC
18379834 METHOD OF EXTRACTING GENE CANDIDATE, METHOD OF UTILIZING GENE CANDIDATE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM Non-Final OA FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
18087945 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED GASTROSCOPY DIAGNOSIS SUPPORTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE DETECTION RATE Final Rejection INFINITT HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.

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