Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: KINKEAD, ARNOLD M

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 2817 2842 2843 2849

This examiner grants 91% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

91.0%
Allow Rate
+23.0% vs TC avg
1394
Total Applications
+8.0%
Interview Lift
814
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 1373 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0.8%
§101 Eligibility
33.3%
§102 Novelty
40.8%
§103 Obviousness
17.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18921121 LOOP BANDWIDTH CONTROL FOR FRACTIONAL-N FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER Non-Final OA TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
19116355 Battery backup control method and apparatus, server, and non-volatile readable storage medium Non-Final OA IEIT SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
18942341 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
18044497 OSCILLATION CIRCUIT, DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE, AND DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD Non-Final OA SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
19040071 OSCILLATION MODULE AND ATOMIC OSCILLATOR Non-Final OA SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
18924876 Wideband Voltage-Controlled Oscillator Circuitry Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
19012580 ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND METHODS FOR FORMING CONTACTS ON ELECTRONIC DEVICES Non-Final OA Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
18539540 ENABLING QUANTUM MACHINE LEARNING TO BE USED EFFECTIVELY WITH CLASSICAL DATA BY MAPPING CLASSICAL DATA INTO A QUANTUM STATE SPACE Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17733977 EFFECTIVE SYNCHRONOUS GATES FOR RAPID SINGLE FLUX QUANTUM LOGIC Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
19055702 QUANTUM CIRCUIT FOR IMPLEMENTING A MULTI-CONTROLLED NOT GATE Non-Final OA Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
19042341 WIRELESS, ENERGY HARVESTER WITH MODULAR SENSOR SYSTEM Non-Final OA NANOFLEX POWER CORPORATION
18059550 GENERATION OF N-BODY ENTANGLING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN QUBITS Non-Final OA DUKE UNIVERSITY
18871379 BIAS VOLTAGE GENERATOR Non-Final OA TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT
18663962 Accurate Frequency Oscillators Non-Final OA pSemi Corporation
18728224 Quantized Bistable Resistively-coupled Ising Machine Non-Final OA University of Rochester
18806812 LASER-FREE SINGLE QUBIT GATE Non-Final OA Quantinuum LLC

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