Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: HALES, BRIAN J

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 2121 2125 2853

This examiner grants 78% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

77.7%
Allow Rate
+9.7% vs TC avg
113
Total Applications
+30.2%
Interview Lift
1406
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 94 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

34.4%
§101 Eligibility
4.4%
§102 Novelty
34.4%
§103 Obviousness
25.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18406747 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEVICE FOR EVALUATION AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA LG ELECTRONICS INC.
18524891 TEMPORAL QUANTUM FEATURE MAPS FOR KERNEL-BASED SEQUENTIAL DATA PREDICTION Non-Final OA Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
18161620 MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS Final Rejection Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18160662 SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION USING A TARGETED TOTAL VARIATION LOSS Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18758727 ENHANCED DECODING OF QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTION CODES WITH IN-PHASE AND QUADRATURE INFORMATION Non-Final OA Google LLC
18437202 LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURES BY BACKPROPAGATION USING DIFFERENTIABLE MASKS Non-Final OA Google LLC
17735342 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18477983 REDUCING THE NUMBER OF ROBUST COUNTERPARTS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17964952 DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM Final Rejection Hitachi, Ltd.
18175378 METHOD FOR GENERATION OF RANDOM QUANTUM STATES AND VERIFICATION OF QUANTUM DEVICES Final Rejection California Institute of Technology
18288858 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING IN-MEMORY COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE APPLIED TO NEURAL NETWORK AND DEVICE Non-Final OA Peking University
17841577 ADAPTIVE TOKEN DEPTH ADJUSTMENT IN TRANSFORMER NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA NVIDIA CORPORATION
17503067 TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING DIMENSIONS OF DATA Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
17740367 MULTI-CHIPLET ENERGY-EFFICIENT DNN ACCELERATOR ARCHITECTURE Final Rejection Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
17710728 GENERATING SYNTHETIC MICROSPY IMAGES OF MANUFACTURED DEVICES Non-Final OA Applied Materials, Inc.
18622081 INSIGHT GENERATION TO FACILITATE INTERPRETATION OF INFERENCE MODEL OUTPUTS Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18141273 PRIVACY-SENSITIVE NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING USING DATA AUGMENTATION Final Rejection DeepMind Technologies Limited

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