Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: LAROCQUE, EMILY E

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2151 2182

This examiner grants 81% of resolved cases

Analysis

Emily E Larocque is an examiner in Art Unit 2151 of Tech Center 2100. With 480 resolved cases, the examiner maintains an allowance rate of 80.6 percent. This rate provides a baseline for the likelihood of a grant. The median days to allowance is 981, establishing a timeframe for successful prosecution.

The interview lift is 13.0 percent, indicating that interviews are a way to increase the chances of allowance. This lift is a factor when compared to the 80.6 percent baseline. Practitioners may use interviews to clarify technical issues and potentially move cases forward more efficiently than the 981-day median pendency suggests. The 480 resolved cases offer a foundation for these statistics in Tech Center 2100.

The 80.6 percent allowance rate and 13.0 percent interview lift suggest a consistent examination process. The 981-day median to allowance is a factor for applicants to include in their strategic planning. These metrics from Art Unit 2151 provide a data-grounded perspective on historical performance.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

80.6%
Allow Rate
+25.6% vs TC avg
506
Total Applications
+13.0%
Interview Lift
981
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 480 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

30.6%
§101 Eligibility
12.7%
§102 Novelty
22.3%
§103 Obviousness
29.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18083333 ONE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTATIONAL UNIT FOR AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Non-Final OA Google LLC
17958373 8-BIT FLOATING POINT SOURCE ARITHMETIC INSTRUCTIONS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17958378 INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERT FROM FP16 TO FP8 Final Rejection Intel Corporation
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
18004072 OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM SOLVING METHOD AND OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM SOLVING DEVICE Non-Final OA Sony Group Corporation
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
17810249 COMPUTING ESTIMATED CLOSEST CORRELATION MATRICES Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18071230 Scalable Switch Capacitor Computation Cores for Accurate and Efficient Deep Learning Inference Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17944805 CONSTRAINED CLUSTERING ALGORITHM FOR EFFICIENT HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK ENGINE Final Rejection SK hynix Inc.
17977813 HARDWARE ACCELERATION FOR PIPELINED VECTOR OPERATIONS Non-Final OA Texas Instruments Incorporated
17112795 EFFICIENT SOFTMAX COMPUTATION Final Rejection NVIDIA Corp.
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
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
17968025 IMPLEMENTATION OF DISCRETE FOURIER-RELATED TRANSFORMS IN HARDWARE Final Rejection Imagination Technologies Limited
17916873 METHOD OF PERFORMING A QUANTUM COMPUTATION Final Rejection SOCPRA SCIENCES ET GENIE S.E.C.

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