Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: LAROCQUE, EMILY E

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2182

This examiner grants 81% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

80.9%
Allow Rate
+25.9% vs TC avg
497
Total Applications
+11.8%
Interview Lift
960
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 461 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

34.2%
§101 Eligibility
5.0%
§102 Novelty
32.3%
§103 Obviousness
23.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17883987 APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH MULTI-FORMAT DATA SUPPORT Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
17697911 CONVOLUTION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
17934322 Tomography of unitary matrix using quantum computing device Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17958378 INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERT FROM FP16 TO FP8 Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17958373 8-BIT FLOATING POINT SOURCE ARITHMETIC INSTRUCTIONS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18594371 CALCULATING DEVICE, CALCULATION PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND CALCULATION METHOD Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
17944805 CONSTRAINED CLUSTERING ALGORITHM FOR EFFICIENT HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK ENGINE Non-Final OA SK hynix Inc.
17835562 ACCUMULATOR FOR HIGH OPERATING SPEED, OPERATIONAL LOGIC CIRCUIT AND PROCESSING-IN-MEMORY DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME Non-Final OA SK hynix Inc.
17796267 OPTIMIZATION FUNCTION GENERATION APPARATUS, OPTIMIZATION FUNCTION GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
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 Non-Final OA INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
18326517 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCODING, DECODING, AND MATCHING SIGNALS USING SSM MODELS Non-Final OA IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
17847892 POLYPHASE FILTER FOR A DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE OVERSAMPLED CHANNELIZER Non-Final OA BAE SYSTEMS Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
17112795 EFFICIENT SOFTMAX COMPUTATION Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corp.
17718323 DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND CIRCUIT BASED ON CONVOLUTION COMPUTATION Non-Final OA Egis Technology Inc.
17857491 SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF APPLYING TENSOR RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS TO MACHINE LEARNING Final Rejection Multiverse Computing SL
17614985 Method To Minimize The Cost of Entraining A Target Limit Cycle Final Rejection Arcascope Inc.

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