Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: LIU, XIAO

Tech Center 3700 • Art Units: 2613 2664 2668 3774

This examiner grants 89% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

88.6%
Allow Rate
+18.6% vs TC avg
348
Total Applications
+12.0%
Interview Lift
935
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 308 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

7.7%
§101 Eligibility
17.2%
§102 Novelty
52.1%
§103 Obviousness
17.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18771381 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH OBJECT DETECTION Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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
18900476 IMAGE SPECIFIC GLOBAL TONE CURVE AND RESIDUAL GAIN MAP GENERATION BASED ON MULTIPLE IMAGES Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18657230 METHOD FOR DETECTING A DEPOSITION COMPRISING SNOW AND/OR ICE ON A SURROUNDING VEHICLE Non-Final OA Volvo Car Corporation
18588194 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18662584 GENERATING NATURAL LANGUAGE DESCRIPTIONS OF IMAGES Non-Final OA Google LLC
18721177 METHOD AND APPARATUS OF IMAGE PROCESSING, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18551258 MODEL TRAINING METHOD, SCENE RECOGNITION METHOD, AND RELATED DEVICE Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18940971 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18594535 OBJECT TRACKING ASSISTED WITH HAND OR EYE TRACKING Non-Final OA Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
18610191 IMAGE FORGERY DETECTION VIA HEADPOSE ESTIMATION Final Rejection PayPal, Inc.
18809228 USER SWITCHING DETECTION DURING ROBOTIC SURGERIES USING DEEP LEARNING Non-Final OA Verb Surgical Inc.
18865687 DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE, ROAD-TO-VEHICLE DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
18910470 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING TRANSPARENT OBSTACLE BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Non-Final OA Kia Corporation
18785164 CAMERA-ONLY-LOCALIZATION IN SPARSE 3D MAPPED ENVIRONMENTS Non-Final OA Texas Instruments Incorporated
18460053 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AN ADAPTIVE AND REGION-SCALE PROPOSING MECHANISM FOR OBJECT RECOGNITION SYSTEMS Final Rejection Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University
18922330 CONVOLUTION OPERATION CIRCUIT AND RELATED CONVOLUTION OPERATION METHOD Non-Final OA Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
18522864 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING SYSTEM HEALTH OF INDIVIDUAL ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS USING IMAGE MAPPING Final Rejection BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
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
18824483 DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION OF A MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
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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