Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: DULANEY, KATHLEEN YUAN

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2142 2624 2665 2666

This examiner grants 77% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

77.1%
Allow Rate
+15.1% vs TC avg
693
Total Applications
+23.7%
Interview Lift
1146
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 659 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

1.4%
§101 Eligibility
6.3%
§102 Novelty
78.7%
§103 Obviousness
13.0%
§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
19293924 RELOCATION MODULE AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL EQUIPMENT Non-Final OA Augustine Biomedical + Design, LLC
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.
18644697 MULTIMODAL DEEPFAKE DETECTION VIA LIP-AUDIO CROSS-ATTENTION AND FACIAL SELF-ATTENTION Non-Final OA Purdue Research Foundation
18534766 SAFETY MONITOR FOR THE INTEGRITY OF AN INSTRUMENT CLUSTER IN A VEHICLE Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18604503 MULTIMODAL DATA-BASED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RECOGNIZING COGNITIVE ENGAGEMENT IN CLASSROOM Non-Final OA CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY
17953225 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING WITH HUMAN-ASSISTED REFINEMENT Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18665245 COMMODITY REGISTRATION TERMINAL AND COMMODITY REGISTRATION METHOD Non-Final OA Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
16976389 POSE INVARIANT FACE RECOGNITION Non-Final OA CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
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
18128125 MULTI-MODE OPTICAL INSPECTION Non-Final OA KLA Corporation
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.
18409675 FAST COMPUTATION OF RFD-LIKE DESCRIPTORS IN FOUR ORIENTATIONS Non-Final OA SMART ENGINES SERVICE, LLC
18520699 Determining whether a questionable video of a prominent individual is real or fake Final Rejection DigiCert, Inc.
18440992 FOOD ASSESSMENT DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA HCL Technologies Limited
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
18143637 METHOD FOR AI INSPECTING FASTENER LOOSENING STATUS AND SURVEILLANCE DEVICE THEREFOR Non-Final OA BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
18098953 METHOD FOR NON-CONTACT TRIGGERING OF BUTTONS Non-Final OA m'AI Touch Technology Co., Ltd.

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