Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: GAY, SONIA L

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2614 2651 2653 2657

This examiner grants 82% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

82.2%
Allow Rate
+20.2% vs TC avg
897
Total Applications
+11.5%
Interview Lift
1071
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 873 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

10.8%
§101 Eligibility
12.4%
§102 Novelty
52.1%
§103 Obviousness
14.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18839559 SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18762552 ACCURATE RESPONSE FOR NOISY USER SPEECH BY CROSS-ATTENTION STITCHING ENCODED AUDIO FEATURES INTO LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
19023373 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUDIO DECODING BASED ON DEQUANTIZATION OF QUANTIZED PARAMETERS Non-Final OA Dolby International AB
18951455 BIAS DETECTION IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMS) BASED ON CONTRASTIVE HYPOTHESIS TESTING Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
18680383 System and method for authenticating users in a computing system Final Rejection Bank of America Corporation
18432779 NORMALIZATION FITTING METHOD Non-Final OA Cochlear Limited
18328925 DOCUMENT RECOMMENDATION USING CONTEXTUAL EMBEDDINGS Non-Final OA ADOBE INC.
18391339 GENERATING TRAINING EXAMPLES FOR TRANSLATION OF NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES TO EXECUTABLE DATABASE QUERIES Non-Final OA SRI International

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