Listed by the USPTO as HICKS, AUSTIN JAMES
Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2116 2118 2124 2142 2147 2187 2615 2698 4100
This examiner grants 75% of resolved cases
HICKS, AUSTIN JAMES has resolved 428 cases in tech center 4100 and art unit 2116. The allowance rate is 75.0%, with a 25.8% interview lift. The median time to allowance is 1172 days. The profile suggests that interviews can materially support prosecution in matters that otherwise may proceed over an extended timeline.
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Google LLC, and ABB Schweiz AG are the leading companies. Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, LLP, Brooks Kushman P.C., and Faegre Drinker NTT are the listed firms. The applicant record is concentrated in software, communications, and industrial technology.
| App # | Title | Status | Assignee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18336687 | DIMENSIONAL ATTENTION FOR WEIGHT ALLOCATION IN LANGUAGE MODELS OR OTHER MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | Non-Final OA | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. |
| 18428515 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FOUNDATION MODELS BASED REWARD DESIGN FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING | Non-Final OA | Robert Bosch GmbH |
| 18431804 | CODE-LEVEL NEURAL ARCHITECTURE SEARCH USING LANGUAGE MODELS | Non-Final OA | Google LLC |
| 18411597 | SURFACE CODE COMPUTATIONS WITH THREE COUPLERS PER QUBIT | Non-Final OA | Google LLC |
| 18113753 | MODULE FOR IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION TO SORT CELLS BASED ON THE NUCLEAR TRANSLOCATION OF FLUORESCENCE SIGNALS | Final Rejection | Sony Corporation of America |
| 17966012 | Method for an Intelligent Alarm Management in Industrial Processes | Non-Final OA | ABB Schweiz AG |
| 17957592 | Method of Transfer Learning for a Specific Production Process of an Industrial Plant | Non-Final OA | ABB Schweiz AG |
| 17907807 | GROWTH POTENTIAL ESTIMATION SYSTEM, GROWTH POTENTIAL ESTIMATION DEVICE, GROWTH POTENTIAL ESTIMATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH GROWTH POTENTIAL ESTIMATION PROGRAM IS STORED | Final Rejection | NEC Corporation |
| 18362435 | Neural Network Training Method and Related Device | Final Rejection | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. |
| 18316369 | NEURAL NETWORK STRUCTURE DETERMINING METHOD AND APPARATUS | Non-Final OA | HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. |
| 18648799 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD | Non-Final OA | Fujitsu Limited |
| 18399674 | STATISTICAL SAMPLING USING REJECTION-FREE PARALLEL TRIAL MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO PROCESSES | Final Rejection | Fujitsu Limited |
| 18040385 | WEIGHTS LAYOUT TRANSFORMATION ASSISTED NESTED LOOPS OPTIMIZATION FOR AI INFERENCE | Non-Final OA | QUALCOMM Incorporated |
| 18086586 | TEST-TIME ADAPTATION WITH UNLABELED ONLINE DATA | Final Rejection | QUALCOMM Incorporated |
| 18008351 | System and Method for Processing Information Signals | Non-Final OA | Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft |
| 18578279 | LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM | Final Rejection | NTT, Inc. |
| 17711569 | Neural Network Representation Formats | Non-Final OA | Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. |
| 18649072 | FEDERATED IMITATION LEARNING FOR MEDICAL DECISION MAKING | Non-Final OA | NEC Laboratories America, Inc. |
| 18485278 | MEASUREMENT CIRCUIT FOR MAJORANA SURFACE CODE IMPLEMENTATION | Non-Final OA | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC |
| 18215801 | ENSEMBLE MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUE FOR VISUALIZING COMPLEX DATA RELATIONSHIPS | Final Rejection | MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC |
| 18213138 | INCORPORATING APPROXIMATE NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH AS IMPLICIT EDGE IN KNOWLEDGE GRAPH | Final Rejection | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC |
| 18747784 | SYNCHRONIZED EXECUTION OF NEURAL NETWORK LAYERS IN MULTI-CORE ENVIRONMENTS | Non-Final OA | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED |
| 18010238 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCODING/DECODING A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK | Non-Final OA | Interdigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS |
| 18406374 | PROVIDING BALANCED TRAINING DATA | Non-Final OA | Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy |
| 18074567 | HYBRID ANALOG SYSTEM FOR TRANSFER LEARNING | Non-Final OA | International Business Machines Corporation |
| 18606938 | TECHNIQUES FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS USING ROBOT SIMULATION DATA | Final Rejection | NVIDIA CORPORATION |
| 18003289 | REFINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO MITIGATE ADVERSARIAL ATTACKS IN AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS | Non-Final OA | NVIDIA CORPORATION |
| 19046114 | Execution of Machine Learning Models at Client Devices | Final Rejection | PayPal, Inc. |
| 17866104 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACQUIRING PRE-TRAINED MODEL, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM | Non-Final OA | BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. |
| 17980895 | USING MACHINE LEARNING FOR CLASSIFYING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION | Non-Final OA | Dell Products L.P. |
IP Author analyzes examiner patterns and generates tailored response strategies with the highest chance of allowance.
Build Your Strategy75.0% of resolved applications examined by Austin James Hicks were allowed (428 resolved cases), compared with 70.1% across Art Unit 2116 over the last five years.
This examiner's interview lift is +25.8 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.
Applications allowed by Austin James Hicks took 1,172 days on average from filing to allowance.
Austin James Hicks examines applications in Art Unit 2116 in Tech Center 4100.
