Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: DRYDEN, EMMA ELIZABETH

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2677

This examiner grants 58% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

58.3%
Allow Rate
-3.7% vs TC avg
46
Total Applications
+25.0%
Interview Lift
1187
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 12 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

9.7%
§101 Eligibility
16.6%
§102 Novelty
56.4%
§103 Obviousness
13.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18550753 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18059793 BEAUTY MAKEUP SPECIAL EFFECT GENERATION METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18698757 Neural Network Image Enhancement Non-Final OA Purdue Research Foundation
18294057 IMAGE PROCESSING MODULE Final Rejection LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
18416615 Real Time Inconsistency Detection During Composite Material Manufacturing Non-Final OA The Boeing Company
17935175 MODIFICATION OF TARGETED OBJECTS WITHIN MEDIA BACKGROUND Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18056286 Synthetic Data Generation for Machine Learning for a Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Task Non-Final OA Siemens Healthineers AG
18286507 System for Detecting Defect and Computer-Readable Medium Final Rejection Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
18443808 BUILDING VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS USING MASKED DISTILLATION FROM FOUNDATION MODELS Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
18455023 GENERATING DIGITAL MATERIALS FROM DIGITAL IMAGES USING A CONTROLLED DIFFUSION NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection Adobe Inc.
17949517 METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF GENERATING IMAGES UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING AND EXISTING IMAGES WITH DISENTANGLED CONTENT AND STYLE ENCODING Final Rejection CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
18286428 DRONE DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON INFRARED POLARIZATION Final Rejection Hefei Polytechnic University
18245274 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A VALUE OF A CAMERA PARAMETER Final Rejection Eppendorf SE
18198538 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TISSUE EVALUATION AND CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA OneProjects Design and Innovation Ltd.
18058536 GENERATING AN ABOVE GROUND BIOMASS PREDICTION MODEL Non-Final OA VENTUREONE - SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP L.L.C.
18331864 SEMI-AUTONOMOUS & TOWED IMPLEMENT ROBOTS FOR CROPPING APPLICATIONS Final Rejection Tensorfield Agriculture, Inc.
17933201 INTELLIGENT GENERATION OF THUMBNAIL IMAGES FOR MESSAGING APPLICATIONS Final Rejection Citrix Systems, Inc.

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