Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: KEATON, SHERROD L

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2142 2148 2173 2175 2178

This examiner grants 52% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

52.4%
Allow Rate
-2.6% vs TC avg
595
Total Applications
+36.1%
Interview Lift
1660
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 563 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.9%
§101 Eligibility
11.1%
§102 Novelty
62.0%
§103 Obviousness
8.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18213402 Enhanced System and Graphical User Interface Customization Based on Machine-Learned Context Non-Final OA Bank of America Corporation
18211804 Using Unsupervised Learning For User Specific Anomaly Detection Non-Final OA Bank of America Corporation
17865662 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
17933020 DEVICES, METHODS, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR CONTENT APPLICATIONS Final Rejection Apple Inc.
18211488 BACKPROPAGATION FOR DISCRETE VARIABLES Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17927105 MACHINE LEARNING RANKING DISTILLATION Final Rejection Google LLC
17623385 BAYESIAN QUANTUM CIRCUIT FIDELITY ESTIMATION Non-Final OA Google LLC
17690647 System and Method for Resource Efficient Natural Language Processing Non-Final OA Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
17941892 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LEARNING LOCALLY-ADAPTIVE LOCAL DEVICE TASK BASED ON CLOUD SIMULATION Final Rejection ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
17625286 MORE ROBUST TRAINING FOR ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
16952899 INTERACTIVE ANIMATED CHARACTER HEAD SYSTEMS AND METHODS Non-Final OA Universal City Studios LLC
18194598 Training Quantum Neural Networks Using Meta Optimization Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
17686440 DETECTION METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, AND COMPUTING SYSTEM Final Rejection FUJITSU LIMITED
18060112 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INFERENCE MODEL PERFORMANCE THROUGH INFERENCE GENERATION PATH RESTRUCTURING Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18233855 RECONSTRUCTION OF INFORMATION STORED IN A DNA STROAGE SYSTEM Non-Final OA BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY
17946117 MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR AUTOMATED SELECTION OF EXECUTABLE SEQUENCES Final Rejection Evernorth Strategic Development, Inc.
17411636 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REINFORCEMENT LEARNING WITH LOCAL STATE AND REWARD DATA Final Rejection ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
17473687 LATENT FEATURE BASED MODEL BIAS MITIGATION IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS Final Rejection FAIR ISAAC CORPORATION
18207588 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING LAYOUT CONFIGURATIONS AMONGST OBJECT GROUPINGS OF A DESIGN UNDER EDIT Final Rejection FIGMA, Inc.
17530413 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING LAYOUT CONFIGURATIONS AMONGST OBJECT GROUPINGS OF A DESIGN UNDER EDIT Final Rejection Figma, Inc.
17867685 THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRACK PLANNING METHOD BASED ON IMPROVED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM Final Rejection HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
17873190 TRAFFIC FLOW FORECASTING METHOD BASED ON DEEP GRAPH GAUSSIAN PROCESSES Non-Final OA HUZHOU UNIVERSITY
18226008 META-LEARNING OF PATHOLOGIES FROM RADIOLOGY REPORTS USING VARIANCE-AWARE PROTOTYPICAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Covera Health
17614597 METHOD FOR CONSOLIDATING DYNAMIC KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS Final Rejection LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST)
17443476 UNSUPERVISED LEARNING Final Rejection Cortica Ltd.
18083073 LABELING PLATFORM DECLARATIVE MODEL Non-Final OA ALEGION, INC.
17788128 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM, AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM Final Rejection ROBOMIND, INC.
17268163 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ANNOTATED TRAINING DATA Non-Final OA Yield Systems Oy

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