Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON

Tech Center 3600 • Art Units: 2122 2125 2126 2127 2144 2146 2171 2663 3629

This examiner grants 82% of resolved cases

Analysis

Brent Johnston Hoover operates within Tech Center 3600 and Art Unit 2122. The examiner has handled 376 resolved cases. The data indicates an allowance rate of 82.2 percent. This figure serves as a primary metric for assessing the probability of success. The median days to allowance is 1264. This duration represents the time required to reach a grant. Applicants should account for this timeframe when planning their patent strategy.

The interview lift for Hoover is 22.0 percent. This percentage shows that interviews are an effective tool for advancing applications. The 22.0 percent interview lift is smaller than the 82.2 percent allowance rate. Across the 376 resolved cases, the median days to allowance of 1264 provides a clear expectation for the prosecution lifecycle. In Art Unit 2122, the interview lift suggests that direct engagement is a beneficial approach. This data offers a baseline for practitioners in Tech Center 3600.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

82.2%
Allow Rate
+30.2% vs TC avg
399
Total Applications
+22.0%
Interview Lift
1264
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 376 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

30.7%
§101 Eligibility
11.1%
§102 Novelty
37.9%
§103 Obviousness
16.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18139072 REAL-TIME PREDICTION OF FUTURE EVENTS USING TRAINED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROCESSES AND INFERRED GROUND-TRUTH LABELS Final Rejection The Toronto-Dominion Bank
18568876 NEURAL NETWORK MODEL CONVERSION DEVICE AND METHOD Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18562537 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18460113 LEARNING METHOD, LEARNING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18184791 METHOD FOR DETERMINING OPTIMIZED BASIS FUNCTIONS FOR DESCRIBING TRAJECTORIES Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
17935046 MULTI-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIC WIRELESS CHANNEL RENDERING USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18238176 Device and Method for Controlling a System using a Digital Twin Final Rejection Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
18542537 Quantizing Neural Networks Using Shifting and Scaling Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18821539 AUTOMATED SELECTION OF EMBEDDING AND GENERATIVE MODELS WITH VECTOR STORE Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18399671 EXAMINING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR BIAS Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
18477574 COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM, METHOD FOR MACHINE LEARNING, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Final Rejection Fujitsu Limited
18573124 SERVER AND AGENT FOR REPORTING OF COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS DURING AN ITERATIVE LEARNING PROCESS Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
17115953 UNSUPERVISED DOMAIN ADAPTATION USING JOINT LOSS AND MODEL PARAMETER SEARCH Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17087568 PROBABILISTIC NONLINEAR RELATIONSHIPS CROSS-MULTI TIME SERIES AND EXTERNAL FACTORS FOR IMPROVED MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES MODELING AND FORECASTING Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18682656 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED SECURE AGGREGATION IN FEDERATED LEARNING Non-Final OA University of Southern California
18298816 MODEL GRADIENT DETERMINING METHODS, APPARATUSES, DEVICES, AND MEDIA BASED ON FEDERATED LEARNING Final Rejection Alipay (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd.
18416828 TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING INITIALIZATIONS FOR PARALLEL OPTIMIZERS Non-Final OA NVIDIA CORPORATION
17950009 GENERATING NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18628883 MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORKS FOR GENERATING AND LEVERAGING CONTEXTUALIZED ENTITY EMBEDDINGS TAILORED TO DOWNSTREAM PREDICTIVE TASKS Non-Final OA Optum Services (Ireland) Limited
18393182 Outcome-Guided Counterfactuals from a Jointly Trained Generative Latent Space Non-Final OA SRI International
17668050 SELECTING POINTS IN CONTINUOUS SPACES USING NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA DeepMind Technologies Limited
18746167 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A PERSONALIZED SEARCH AND DISCOVERY ENGINE Non-Final OA Miso Technologies Inc.

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