Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: NILSSON, ERIC

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122 2151 2198

This examiner grants 83% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

82.6%
Allow Rate
+27.6% vs TC avg
525
Total Applications
+18.0%
Interview Lift
1169
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 494 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

25.3%
§101 Eligibility
17.5%
§102 Novelty
38.8%
§103 Obviousness
8.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18353572 CALIBRATION USING DIFFERENTIAL MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
17848728 PROGRAMMATIC SELECTOR FOR CHOOSING A WELL-SUITED STACKED MACHINE LEARNING ENSEMBLE PIPELINE AND HYPERPARAMETER VALUES Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
17965995 INFERENCE DEVICE, AND UPDATE METHOD Final Rejection Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
18364601 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRAINING PARAMETRIC POLICY Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18320276 MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, MACHINE LEARNING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING EMBODIED THEREON A TRAINED MODEL Non-Final OA JVCKENWOOD Corporation
18539171 REAL-WORLD ROBOT CONTROL USING TRANSFORMER NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Google LLC
18358113 ACCELERATED LEARNING FROM SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18203076 MODEL-SPECIFIC SYNTHETIC DATA GENERATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODEL TRAINING Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18483269 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18349571 METHOD FOR ESTIMATING MODEL UNCERTAINTIES WITH THE AID OF A NEURAL NETWORK AND AN ARCHITECTURE OF THE NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18338174 ADAPTING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR DOMAIN-SHIFTED DATA Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18302939 MULTI-MODALITY ROOT CAUSE LOCALIZATION ENGINE Non-Final OA NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
17401002 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA Visa International Service Association
17972854 PROPRIOCEPTIVE LEARNING Non-Final OA Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
18330603 NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING RULE UPDATE PROGRAM, RULE UPDATE METHOD, AND RULE UPDATE DEVICE Non-Final OA FUJITSU LIMITED
17885588 STORAGE MEDIUM, MODEL REDUCTION APPARATUS, AND MODEL REDUCTION METHOD Final Rejection FUJITSU LIMITED
18334697 PROVISIONING DEEP LEARNING (DL) MODELS THAT PRESERVE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN RESPONSE VARIABLES AND SELECTED EXPLANATORY VARIABLES Non-Final OA Accenture Global Solutions Limited
18238459 COMPUTING PLATFORM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK LEARNING AND SIMULATION Non-Final OA ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY
18108354 AUTOMATED CUSTOMIZED MACHINE LEARNING MODEL VALIDATION FLOW Final Rejection Kyndryl, Inc.
17942857 DEEP LEARNING COMPUTE PATHS FOR FASTER VEHICLE REACTION TIMES Final Rejection GM Cruise Holdings LLC
17806837 AUTOMATED DESIGN OF ARCHITECTURES OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA ANSYS, INC.

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