Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: MENGISTU, TEWODROS E

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2121 2127

This examiner grants 49% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

48.8%
Allow Rate
-6.2% vs TC avg
161
Total Applications
+28.2%
Interview Lift
1613
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 127 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

27.9%
§101 Eligibility
9.6%
§102 Novelty
44.5%
§103 Obviousness
14.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18781474 NOISE-ROBUST FEDERATED LEARNING VIA OPTIMAL TRANSPORT Final Rejection THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
18043623 MEDICAL ARM CONTROL SYSTEM, MEDICAL ARM DEVICE, MEDICAL ARM CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18230448 FEATURES EXTRACTION NETWORK FOR ESTIMATING NEURAL ACTIVITY FROM ELECTRICAL RECORDINGS Non-Final OA California Institute of Technology
17388919 AUTOMATICALLY REDUCING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL INPUTS Final Rejection Capital One Services, LLC
18203950 SERVER APPARATUS Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18204031 SERVER APPARATUS Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
17196544 MACHINE LEARNING MOBILE DEVICE LOCALIZATION Final Rejection FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
17109824 FACTORIZED NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17526350 GLOBAL NEURAL TRANSDUCER MODELS LEVERAGING SUB-TASK NETWORKS Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17398215 INITIALIZE OPTIMIZED PARAMETER IN DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17357687 METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE AND APPARATUS TO IMPROVE ALGORITHMIC SOLVER PERFORMANCE Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17400631 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
19045394 TIME-SERIES FORECASTING AND IMPUTING USING AUTOMATED FEATURE EXTRACTION AND STATIC MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA ARTI ANALYTICS, INC., a Delaware Corporation
18014343 LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD AND LEARNING PROGRAM Final Rejection NTT, Inc.
18230311 BATCH SCHEDULING FOR EFFICIENT EXECUTION OF MULTIPLE MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18204048 HYBRID MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFIERS FOR USER RESPONSE STATEMENTS Non-Final OA Roku, Inc.
18084324 MACHINE LEARNING-BASED USER SELECTION PREDICTION BASED ON SEQUENCE OF PRIOR USER SELECTIONS Final Rejection Home Depot Product Authority, LLC
17386682 METHOD FOR FAULT DIAGNOSIS IN COMMUNICATION NETWORK Non-Final OA National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
18309325 METHODS, SYSTEMS, ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE AND APPARATUS TO REDUCE LONG-TAIL CATEGORIZATION BIAS Non-Final OA Nielsen Consumer LLC
18262955 FILTER BASED PRUNING TECHNIQUES FOR CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Think Silicon Research and Technology Single Member S.A.
17290057 INFERENCE APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFERENCE METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA NS Solutions Corporation

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