Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2626 2658

This examiner grants 82% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

81.9%
Allow Rate
+19.9% vs TC avg
946
Total Applications
+10.5%
Interview Lift
1201
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 900 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

17.7%
§101 Eligibility
29.9%
§102 Novelty
33.0%
§103 Obviousness
6.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18532871 System and Method for Secure Speech Feature Extraction Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18296322 DISCOVERING AND APPLYING DESCRIPTIVE LABELS TO UNSTRUCTURED DATA Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18734624 DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS BY AN AUTOMATED ASSISTANT AS A USER ITERATIVELY PROVIDES A SPOKEN UTTERANCE, OR SEQUENCE OF SPOKEN UTTERANCES Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18387768 HYBRID INFERENCE FOR AN EFFICIENT, LOW LATENCY LLM-BASED ASSISTANT Final Rejection GOOGLE LLC
18806632 PRE-PROCESSING A TABLE IN A DOCUMENT FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18761485 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING CONTENT CORRESPONDING TO A LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN A HOUSEHOLD Non-Final OA Adeia Guides Inc.
17744138 VOCAL RECORDING AND RE-CREATION Non-Final OA Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
18193809 Method for Controlling a Virtual Assistant for an Industrial Plant Non-Final OA ABB Schweiz AG
18498988 CONTRASTIVE IN-CONTEXT LEARNING FOR LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA INTUIT INC.
18342954 GENERATING TEXT PROMPTS FOR DIGITAL IMAGES UTILIZING VISION-LANGUAGE MODELS AND CONTEXTUAL PROMPT LEARNING Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
18788774 INFERRING USER INTENT FOR ASSISTANCE USING A DISPLAY FREE BODY WEARABLE COMPUTING DEVICE Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18365966 USING LANGUAGE MODELS IN AUTONOMOUS AND SEMI-AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Final Rejection Nvidia Corporation
18224659 System and Method for Audio Processing using Time-Invariant Speaker Embeddings Final Rejection Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
18386825 ENHANCED DE-ESSER FOR IN-CAR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS Final Rejection Cerence Operating Company
18806400 BUILDING LINGUISTIC OPERATIONAL EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR DNS, DHCP, AND IPAM (DDI) Non-Final OA Infoblox Inc.
18481275 Interactive Chemical Material Interface Final Rejection Ticona LLC
18766392 DEEP LEARNING SEGMENTATION OF AUDIO USING MAGNITUDE SPECTROGRAM Non-Final OA Audioshake, Inc.
18439904 DATA GENERATION AND SEPARATION OF RADIO COLLISIONS WITH MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc.
18731053 COMMUNICATION WITH PLANT-ASSOCIATED PERSONAS VIA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Non-Final OA ePlant, Inc.
18662625 MACHINE-LEARNING PIPELINE FOR ONTOLOGY GENERATION VIA LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA SupportLogic, Inc.
18652126 MATCHING DESCRIPTIVE TEXTS BASED ON EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE REQUESTS Non-Final OA Connoisseur Technology Holdings, LLC
18218953 Accelerometer-Based Voice Activity Detection With Optimized Detection Axis Non-Final OA InvenSense, Inc.
18616100 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ASSISTED INTERVIEW SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AND QUERYING INTERACTIVE VIDEOS Non-Final OA StoryFile, Inc.
18559924 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN INTEREST ENGINE USING REAL-TIME NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TO GENERATE SUGGESTIONS FOR EVENT ATTENDEES Non-Final OA Cvent, Inc.
18553221 METHOD FOR END-TO-END SPEECH ENHANCEMENT BASED ON NEURAL NETWORK, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Non-Final OA JINGDONG TECHNOLOGY HOLDING CO., LTD.
18218847 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING CONTENT USING USER SENTENCES Non-Final OA FAMPPY INC.

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