Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: HANSELL JR., RICHARD A

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2482 2486

This examiner grants 76% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

76.3%
Allow Rate
+18.3% vs TC avg
547
Total Applications
+26.9%
Interview Lift
964
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 507 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

3.2%
§101 Eligibility
10.6%
§102 Novelty
56.9%
§103 Obviousness
17.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18725486 IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH BITSTREAM IS STORED Final Rejection LG Electronics Inc.
18724653 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CODING INTRA PREDICTION MODE Final Rejection LG ELECTRONICS INC.
19063779 SURROUNDING SITUATION RECOGNITION DEVICE, SURROUNDING SITUATION RECOGNITION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18985366 TRANSMISSION DEVICE, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
19256876 Mixed NAL Unit Type Picture Constraints Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
19097134 SCALING AND REORDERING OF CHAINED MOTION VECTOR PREDICTION FOR VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
19264688 METHOD AND DEVICE USING HIGH LAYER SYNTAX ARCHITECTURE FOR CODING AND DECODING Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
19256144 SECONDARY TRANSFORM APPLICATION FOR VARIOUS BLOCK SIZES Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
19213934 METHOD FOR OUTPUT LAYER SET FOR MULTILAYERED VIDEO STREAM Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
18963111 UNIFIED SECONDARY TRANSFORM Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
18958399 UNIFIED SECONDARY TRANSFORM Non-Final OA Tencent America LLC
18958988 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO ENCODING OR DECODING Final Rejection Tencent America LLC
17978290 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF VIDEO CODING WITH INLINE DOWNSCALING HARDWARE Final Rejection Intel Corporation
19288463 SIGNALING OF STATE INFORMATION FOR A DECODED PICTURE BUFFER AND REFERENCE PICTURE LISTS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18855210 TEMPLATE BASED MOST PROBABLE MODE LIST REORDERING Non-Final OA InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS
19183687 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND MEDIUM FOR VIDEO PROCESSING Non-Final OA Bytedance Inc.
19210862 PROCESSING MEDIA USING NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
19143581 Methods and Apparatus of Cross-component Model Merge Mode for Video Coding Non-Final OA MEDIATEK INC.
18886822 INTRA PREDICTION FOR VIDEO CODING Non-Final OA BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18816636 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR VIDEO CODING BASED ON INHERIT INTRA MODE Non-Final OA BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18339360 METHOD, COMPUTING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ENCODING OR DECODING VIDEO USING DETERMINED BIT DEPTH OF VIDEO AND WEIGHTED PREDICTION Final Rejection GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD.
18912793 VEHICLE VISOR ASSEMBLY INCORPORATING DISPLAY Non-Final OA GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC

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