Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: JEREZ LORA, WILLIAM A

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2654 2695

This examiner grants 84% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

83.9%
Allow Rate
+21.9% vs TC avg
623
Total Applications
+15.0%
Interview Lift
843
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 607 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

10.0%
§101 Eligibility
7.9%
§102 Novelty
56.1%
§103 Obviousness
17.3%
§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.
18635582 IMAGING APPARATUS, SOUND COLLECTION APPARATUS, AND IMAGING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Management 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
18798684 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POP-UP SPEAKER, AND VEHICLE INCLUDING THE SAME Non-Final OA Kia Corporation
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
18688317 DIRECTIONAL AUDIO SOURCE SEPARATION USING HYBRID NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA University of Washington
18681038 MICROPHONE ARRAY AND SIGNAL CONVERSION APPARATUS Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
18797488 MULTI-CHANNEL VEHICLE-MOUNTED SEAT VIBRATION FEEDBACK SYSTEM AND METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICE Non-Final OA AAC Acoustic Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
18803622 DISPLAY APPARATUS AND SOUND RECEPTION CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA BENQ CORPORATION
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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