Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: KEATON, SHERROD L

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 1685 2142 2148 2173 2175 2178

This examiner grants 53% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

52.7%
Allow Rate
-2.3% vs TC avg
601
Total Applications
+36.7%
Interview Lift
1592
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 569 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

1.3%
§101 Eligibility
3.5%
§102 Novelty
89.9%
§103 Obviousness
0.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17690647 System and Method for Resource Efficient Natural Language Processing Non-Final OA Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
17865662 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18213624 MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES FORECASTER USING DEEP LEARNING Non-Final OA THE TORONTO-DOMINION BANK
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
18211804 Using Unsupervised Learning For User Specific Anomaly Detection Non-Final OA Bank of America Corporation
17927105 MACHINE LEARNING RANKING DISTILLATION Final Rejection Google LLC
18078781 OPTIMIZED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR QUANTUM COMPILATION AND EXECUTION Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
19220140 THINKING ABILITY PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON DEEP LEARNING, DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Central China Normal University
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
18194598 Training Quantum Neural Networks Using Meta Optimization Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
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
17867685 THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRACK PLANNING METHOD BASED ON IMPROVED PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM Final Rejection HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
17807079 CALCULATION METHOD, CALCULATOR SYSTEM, AND CALCULATOR Non-Final OA JSR CORPORATION
17873190 TRAFFIC FLOW FORECASTING METHOD BASED ON DEEP GRAPH GAUSSIAN PROCESSES Non-Final OA HUZHOU UNIVERSITY
17614597 METHOD FOR CONSOLIDATING DYNAMIC KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS Final Rejection LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST)
17443476 UNSUPERVISED LEARNING Final Rejection Cortica Ltd.
18068743 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING HEIGHT OF CONFINED WATER RISING ZONE Non-Final OA Shandong University of Science and Technology
17268163 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ANNOTATED TRAINING DATA Non-Final OA Yield Systems Oy

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