Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: LAROCQUE, EMILY E

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2151 2182

This examiner grants 80% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

80.5%
Allow Rate
+25.5% vs TC avg
504
Total Applications
+13.0%
Interview Lift
973
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 473 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

30.9%
§101 Eligibility
12.7%
§102 Novelty
22.1%
§103 Obviousness
29.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17980544 WEIGHT-SPARSE NPU WITH FINE-GRAINED STRUCTURED SPARSITY Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17895928 CALCULATING DEVICE, CALCULATION PROGRAM, AND CALCULATION METHOD Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18083333 ONE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTATIONAL UNIT FOR AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Non-Final OA Google LLC
18326517 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCODING, DECODING, AND MATCHING SIGNALS USING SSM MODELS Non-Final OA IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
17810249 COMPUTING ESTIMATED CLOSEST CORRELATION MATRICES Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17989780 FINAL EXPONENTIATION COMPUTATION DEVICE, PAIRING COMPUTATION DEVICE, CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING DEVICE, FINAL EXPONENTIATION COMPUTATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
17944805 CONSTRAINED CLUSTERING ALGORITHM FOR EFFICIENT HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK ENGINE Final Rejection SK hynix Inc.
17922558 SURROGATE BINARY OPTIMIZATION Non-Final OA FUJITSU LIMITED
17592504 NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Non-Final OA FUJITSU LIMITED
17543774 OPTIMIZATION APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND OPTIMIZATION METHOD Final Rejection FUJITSU LIMITED
17112795 EFFICIENT SOFTMAX COMPUTATION Final Rejection NVIDIA Corp.
18070429 METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING ROBUST LOW-RANK MATRIX RECOVERY VIA HYBRID ORDINARY-WELSCH FUNCTION Non-Final OA City University of Hong Kong
17971486 COLUMN-PARTITIONED SPARSE MATRIX MULTIPLICATION Non-Final OA HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
18080673 MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE WITH BROADCAST DATA Non-Final OA Analog Devices, Inc.
18071230 Scalable Switch Capacitor Computation Cores for Accurate and Efficient Deep Learning Inference Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18052903 WEIGHT EXPANSION TO REDUCE WEIGHT PRECISION Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18101334 DIRECT DIGITAL SYNTHESIZER ALIGNMENT Non-Final OA Keysight Technologies, Inc.
17752235 OPERATION DEVICE OF CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK, OPERATION METHOD OF CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK AND COMPUTER PROGRAM STORED IN A RECORDING MEDIUM TO EXECUTE THE METHOD THEREOF Final Rejection INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY

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