Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2654 2692 2695

This examiner grants 84% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

83.6%
Allow Rate
+21.6% vs TC avg
628
Total Applications
+15.4%
Interview Lift
802
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 611 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.9%
§101 Eligibility
0.5%
§102 Novelty
88.9%
§103 Obviousness
4.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18790528 SPECTROGRAM BASED TIME ALIGNMENT FOR INDEPENDENT RECORDING AND PLAYBACK SYSTEMS Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18733324 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18571326 Apparatus, Methods and Computer Programs for Training Machine Learning Models Final Rejection Nokia Technologies Oy
18226826 Pair Direction Selection Based on Dominant Audio Direction Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18676834 SOUND PROCESSING DEVICE, SOUND PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
18499470 ACTIVE PIEZOELECTRIC SHEET WITH PIEZOELECTRIC MICROSTRUCTURES Non-Final OA Massachusetts Institute of Technology
18798684 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POP-UP SPEAKER, AND VEHICLE INCLUDING THE SAME Non-Final OA Kia Corporation
18732550 DYNAMICS PROCESSING ACROSS DEVICES WITH DIFFERING PLAYBACK CAPABILITIES Non-Final OA DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB
18688317 DIRECTIONAL AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION USING HYBRID NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA University of Washington
18797488 MULTI-CHANNEL VEHICLE-MOUNTED SEAT VIBRATION FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICE Non-Final OA AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
18605935 Audio Signal Processing Method and Audio Signal Processing System Non-Final OA Yamaha Corporation
18775885 BEAMFORMING FOR WIND NOISE OPTIMIZED MICROPHONE PLACEMENTS Non-Final OA GoPro, Inc
18607898 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DUAL MICROPHONE WITH CALIBRATED ALGORITHM TO WIDEN SPEECH OUTPUT RANGE FOR A HEADSET DEVICE Non-Final OA Dell Products LP
18687578 PICKUP, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS Non-Final OA SONITUS MEDICAL (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
18534686 PROXIMATE DUAL MEMS MICROPHONES, SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS Non-Final OA AUDARIUM LLC

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