Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2142 2624 2665 2666

This examiner grants 77% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

77.2%
Allow Rate
+15.2% vs TC avg
685
Total Applications
+24.0%
Interview Lift
1166
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 653 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

21.2%
§101 Eligibility
16.3%
§102 Novelty
33.1%
§103 Obviousness
26.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18584750 IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSOR, OPERATING METHOD THEREOF, AND APPLICATION PROCESSOR INCLUDING THE IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSOR Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18293748 COLOR DISCRIMINATION DEVICE AND COLOR DISCRIMINATION METHOD Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18534636 IMAGING SYSTEM, METHOD USED IN IMAGING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM USED IN IMAGING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
19293924 RELOCATION MODULE AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL EQUIPMENT Non-Final OA Augustine Biomedical + Design, LLC
18395525 DEFECT CLASSIFICATION METHOD AND DEFECT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM Non-Final OA Samsung Display Co., LTD.
18401852 AIR DRAG OF A VEHICLE Non-Final OA Volvo Truck Corporation
17853700 CAMERA ROTATION FOR MULTI-POSTURE COMPUTING DEVICES Final Rejection MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
18318276 NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD Final Rejection TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
17929897 Contextual Image Recognition Producing Notifications based on Knowledge Corpus Information Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17953225 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING WITH HUMAN-ASSISTED REFINEMENT Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18438152 MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD Non-Final OA CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
18292385 A METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A TREATMENT PROFILE Non-Final OA KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
18292528 SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Tokyo Electron Limited
18085057 METHOD FOR IDENTITY VERIFICATION Final Rejection Industrial Technology Research Institute
18440992 FOOD ASSESSMENT DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA HCL Technologies Limited
18163708 ITERATIVE DEPTH ESTIMATION Final Rejection Motional AD LLC
18632353 TOPOGRAM-BASED LOCALIZATION AND/OR ATTENUATION MAPPING IN EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY Non-Final OA Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
18128125 MULTI-MODE OPTICAL INSPECTION Non-Final OA KLA Corporation
16976389 POSE INVARIANT FACE RECOGNITION Final Rejection CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
18520699 Determining whether a questionable video of a prominent individual is real or fake Final Rejection DigiCert, Inc.
18143637 METHOD FOR AI INSPECTING FASTENER LOOSENING STATUS AND SURVEILLANCE DEVICE THEREFOR Non-Final OA BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
18568865 PREDICTION OF HUMAN SUBJECT STATE VIA HYBRID APPROACH INCLUDING AI CLASSIFICATION AND BLEPHAROMETRIC ANALYSIS, INCLUDING DRIVER MONITORING SYSTEMS Non-Final OA SDIP HOLDINGS PTY LTD
18098953 METHOD FOR NON-CONTACT TRIGGERING OF BUTTONS Non-Final OA m'AI Touch Technology Co., Ltd.

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