Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: LU, ZHIYU

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2618 2649 2665 2669

This examiner grants 49% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

49.3%
Allow Rate
-12.7% vs TC avg
816
Total Applications
+13.9%
Interview Lift
1348
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 759 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

2.9%
§101 Eligibility
11.8%
§102 Novelty
66.6%
§103 Obviousness
17.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18320587 METHOD AND DEVICE WITH DEFECT DETECTION Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18560343 Systems, Methods, and Media for Generating Low-Energy Virtual Monoenergetic Images from Multi-Energy Computed Tomography Data Final Rejection Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
18698418 IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18438670 LEARNING APPARATUS, INFERENCE APPARATUS, LEARNING METHOD, INFERENCE METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18413663 APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR IMPROVING RESULT OF INFERENCE BY LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
17933665 INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INSPECTION SYSTEM Non-Final OA CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
17946899 Systems and Methods for Film Grain Synthesis and Insertion Final Rejection Apple Inc.
18376151 COMBINING BONE MODELS TO AVOID MODEL CONFLICTS DURING ANIMATION Non-Final OA Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
18611698 TRACKING SYSTEM FOR MOVING BODY Non-Final OA TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18380253 IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODER, AND IMAGE ENCODER Final Rejection Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
18438579 Method for Generating Training Data for an Object for Training an Artificial Intelligence System and Training System Final Rejection Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
18557520 OBJECT TRACKING DEVICE Final Rejection KYOCERA Corporation
15606306 Dynamic Encoding Using Remote Encoding Profiles Non-Final OA COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
18704626 X-RAY PROJECTION IMAGE SCORING Non-Final OA KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
18564246 APPARATUS FOR MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS Non-Final OA KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
17887096 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING SHARPNESS OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES USING A DEEP LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.
18579388 MONITORING DEFINED OPTICAL PATTERNS BY MEANS OF OBJECT DETECTION AND MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
18555884 IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE Final Rejection FANUC CORPORATION
18531643 Stacked Image Processing to Reduce Blur for Autonomous Driving Final Rejection Waymo LLC
17590396 VISUAL EFFECTS PROCESSING FRAMEWORK Final Rejection NETFLIX, INC.
17105013 CELL ANALYSIS METHOD, CELL ANALYSIS DEVICE, CELL ANALYSIS SYSTEM, CELL ANALYSIS PROGRAM, AND TRAINED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ALGORITHM GENERATION METHOD Final Rejection SYSMEX CORPORATION
18015313 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING INFORMATIVE PATTERNS FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
17987917 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ERRORS IN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY NUMBER WITHOUT RAW DETECTOR COUNT DATA Non-Final OA Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
18178528 DEEP LEARNING MODEL-BASED ALIGNMENT FOR SEMICONDUCTOR APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA KLA Corporation
18194865 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING A SIZE OF A COOKWARE ITEM Non-Final OA Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
18240461 TRAINING OF INSTANT SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS WITH PARTIALLY ANNOTATED IMAGES Non-Final OA Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
18660593 SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETECT PROPER SEATBELT USAGE AND DISTANCE Final Rejection Magna Electronics, LLC
18435041 HUMAN-EYE STATE DETECTION DEVICE AND HUMAN-EYE STATE DETECTION METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA Wistron Corp.
17939785 METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION AND DEFINING LOCATION OF CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION Non-Final OA Taipei Veterans General Hospital
17930399 STABILIZATION OF PROJECTED POINT-OF-INTEREST IN AUGMENTED REALITY USING IMAGE PROCESSING Non-Final OA Tomahawk Robotics, Inc.

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