Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: FEREJA, SAMUEL D

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2400 2482 2486 2487 2489

This examiner grants 75% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

75.1%
Allow Rate
+17.1% vs TC avg
696
Total Applications
+11.5%
Interview Lift
966
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 635 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

4.3%
§101 Eligibility
11.5%
§102 Novelty
69.6%
§103 Obviousness
8.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19254940 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TRANSFORM-BASED IMAGE CODING Non-Final OA LG ELECTRONICS INC.
19228076 IMAGE OR VIDEO CODING USING DEBLOCKING FILTERING Non-Final OA LG Electronics Inc.
18858875 TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR POINT CLOUD DATA, METHOD PERFORMED BY TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEPTION DEVICE FOR POINT CLOUD DATA, AND METHOD PERFORMED BY RECEPTION DEVICE Non-Final OA LG Electronics Inc.
19188877 ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF CAMERAS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18465097 DETECTING DRIVER SURPRISE WITH PUPILLOMETRY AND FACIAL VIDEO Non-Final OA TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
18929234 Adjusting Interaxial Distance for Stereoscopic Cameras via Image Sensor Offset Final Rejection Apple Inc.
19228393 Signaling of Picture Header in Video Coding Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
19003419 ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM AND OPERATION METHOD THEREFOR Final Rejection FUJIFILM Corporation
19013288 SAMPLE POSITION AND BLOCK CHARACTERISTIC DEPENDENT INTRA-PREDICTION FOR VIDEO CODING Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
17772088 BLOCK-BASED COMPRESSIVE AUTO-ENCODER Non-Final OA InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS
19193594 DICTIONARY BASED CODING OF VIDEO DATA Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
18991172 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Final Rejection Bytedance Inc.
18780010 METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUSES FOR ADAPTIVE PROCESSING OF VIDEO CONTENT WITH FILM GRAIN Non-Final OA Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
19058931 TECHNIQUES FOR SCALING A RATE-DISTORTION MULTIPLIER WHEN PERFORMING TRELLIS CODED QUANTIZATION Final Rejection NETFLIX, INC.
19175097 DECODING METHOD, ENCODERS AND DECODERS Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
18219186 DECISION OPTIMIZATION INVOLVING GLOBAL OBJECTIVES AND GLOBAL CONSTRAINTS Final Rejection Salesforce, Inc.
18920783 HARDWARE-ASSISTED WEIGHTED PREDICTION ENCODING WITH SOFTWARE-GENERATED WEIGHT PREDICTION PARAMETERS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
19128426 INTER-FRAME PREDICTION METHOD, DECODING METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA ZTE CORPORATION
18333966 CONTROLLING SIGNAL STRENGTHS IN ANALOG, IN-MEMORY COMPUTE UNITS HAVING CROSSBAR ARRAY STRUCTURES Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18448829 DOORBELL PACKAGE DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS Non-Final OA SKYBELL TECHNOLOGIES IP, LLC
18929292 VIDEO SURVEILLANCE NETWORK USING INTER-FRAME COMPRESSION Final Rejection Seagate Technology LLC

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