Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: HANN, JAY B

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 1685 2123 2129 2148 2186 2187 2189 2874

This examiner grants 61% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

61.3%
Allow Rate
-6.7% vs TC avg
501
Total Applications
+32.7%
Interview Lift
1279
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 476 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

21.3%
§101 Eligibility
11.9%
§102 Novelty
41.4%
§103 Obviousness
22.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18253340 A MACHINE LEARNING BASED APPROACH TO WELL TEST ANALYSIS Non-Final OA Schlumberger Technology Corporation
17823776 SAFETY FRAMEWORK WITH CALIBRATION ERROR INJECTION Final Rejection Zoox, Inc.
17474523 Geometric Learning-Based Method for Discovery of Optical Phenomena in Nanophotonic Structures Non-Final OA Georgia Tech Research Corporation
18248458 Faster Coverage Convergence with Automatic Test Parameter Tuning in Constrained Random Verification Non-Final OA Google LLC
17876025 USE OF SELF-ORGANIZING-MAPS WITH LOGGING-WHILE-DRILLING DATA TO DELINEATE RESERVOIRS IN 2D AND 3D WELL PLACEMENT MODELS Non-Final OA Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
17841612 METHODS TO PERFORM REAL-TIME ANALYSIS OF FLUID FLOW IN A WELL, METHODS TO PERFORM REAL-TIME ANALYSIS OF A WELL OPERATION, AND REAL-TIME WELL OPERATION SYSTEMS Final Rejection Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
17750757 PIPELINE VECTORIZATION METHOD TO PREDICT INTERNAL CORROSION Non-Final OA Saudi Arabian Oil Company
18003971 BATTERY SIMULATOR METHOD USING TWO-BRANCH EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL Non-Final OA Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
17981594 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING DEFECTS IN AIRCRAFT TEMPLATE Final Rejection Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
17999011 PREDICTING INCIPIENT SEPARATION IN TURBULENT FLOWS Final Rejection UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
18027174 SIMULATING PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS USING GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA DeepMind Technologies Limited
18133089 SURFACE STIFFNESS OPTIMIZATION TO IMPROVE MORPHING SURFACE ACCURACY Non-Final OA The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
17981377 CONSTRUCTION LAYOUT USING ROBOTIC MARKING AND AUGMENTED REALITY METADATA OVERLAYS Non-Final OA Trimble Inc.
18162764 Computer simulation methodology to analyze mass, momentum, energy and charge transport in a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Non-Final OA Dassault Systemes Americas Corp.

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