Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: LIU, XIAO

Tech Center 3700 • Art Units: 2613 2664 2668 3774

This examiner grants 88% of resolved cases

Analysis

Xiao Liu operates within Tech Center 3700 and has overseen 318 resolved cases. The examiner demonstrates an allowance rate of 87.7 percent in Art Unit 2613. The median days to allowance stands at 938, providing a benchmark for expected pendency. This 938-day metric is a factor for practitioners when scheduling prosecution milestones and managing expectations for a final disposition. The 87.7 percent rate reflects the outcomes for applications reaching a resolution under this examiner.

Conducting an interview with this examiner results in an interview lift of 12.0 percent. This lift indicates that personal advocacy is associated with an increase in the probability of success relative to the 87.7 percent base allowance rate. The combination of this success rate and the 938-day pendency characterizes the examiner's docket. Practitioners can use the 12.0 percent lift to evaluate the utility of an interview during prosecution. The 318 resolved cases offer the data set for these strategic conclusions regarding Art Unit 2613.

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

Performance Statistics

87.7%
Allow Rate
+17.7% vs TC avg
349
Total Applications
+12.0%
Interview Lift
938
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 318 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

7.6%
§101 Eligibility
17.4%
§102 Novelty
53.1%
§103 Obviousness
16.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18900476 IMAGE SPECIFIC GLOBAL TONE CURVE AND RESIDUAL GAIN MAP GENERATION BASED ON MULTIPLE IMAGES Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
19100618 MOBILE BODY TRACKING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18994665 IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18994670 ROAD MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, ROAD MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18715164 IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18588194 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18636550 THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING METHOD, THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA ENCODING DEVICE, AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL DATA DECODING DEVICE Final Rejection Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
18551258 MODEL TRAINING METHOD, SCENE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICE Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
19106651 VENDOR-AGNOSTIC AI IMAGE PROCESSING Non-Final OA KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
18910470 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING TRANSPARENT OBSTACLE BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Non-Final OA Kia Corporation
19041244 PRODUCT-INCLUSIVE IMAGE ALT TEXT GENERATION Non-Final OA Walmart Apollo, LLC
18865687 DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE, ROAD-TO-VEHICLE DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
18610191 IMAGE FORGERY DETECTION VIA HEADPOSE ESTIMATION Non-Final OA PayPal, Inc.
18559274 COMPONENT CLASSIFICATION DEVICE, METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING COMPONENTS, AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A COMPONENT CLASSIFICATION DEVICE Final Rejection MTU Aero Engines AG
18994663 LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND LEARNING PROGRAM Non-Final OA NTT, Inc.
18809228 USER SWITCHING DETECTION DURING ROBOTIC SURGERIES USING DEEP LEARNING Non-Final OA Verb Surgical Inc.
18594535 OBJECT TRACKING ASSISTED WITH HAND OR EYE TRACKING Non-Final OA Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
18614160 OBJECT DETECTION USING IMAGE ALIGNMENT FOR AUTONOMOUS MACHINE APPLICATIONS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18354431 AUTO-LABELING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS FOR OPEN-SET AND OUT-OF-DOMAIN SEGMENTATION Non-Final OA Nvidia Corporation
18106348 TECHNIQUES TO USE A NEURAL NETWORK TO EXPAND AN IMAGE Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18922330 CONVOLUTION OPERATION CIRCUIT AND RELATED CONVOLUTION OPERATION METHOD Non-Final OA Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
18977954 TRACKING APPARATUS AND METHOD Non-Final OA HTC Corporation
18945375 UNSUPERVISED LEARNING OF OBJECT KEYPOINT LOCATIONS IN IMAGES THROUGH TEMPORAL TRANSPORT OR SPATIO-TEMPORAL TRANSPORT Non-Final OA DeepMind Technologies Limited

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