Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: PATEL, JIGNESHKUMAR C

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2116 2118 2126

This examiner grants 79% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

78.8%
Allow Rate
+23.8% vs TC avg
467
Total Applications
+21.6%
Interview Lift
1024
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 439 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.2%
§101 Eligibility
19.5%
§102 Novelty
47.0%
§103 Obviousness
14.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18538447 REFRIGERATOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING REFRIGERATOR Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18478084 NEURAL NETWORK BASED FAST MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL FOR POWER REGULATION Non-Final OA RTX Corporation
18573537 EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND REFRIGERANT AMOUNT ESTIMATION METHOD Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
18203491 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISCRETELY REFUELABLE ENERGY SOURCE IN A DATACENTER Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18542562 DETERMINING EQUIPMENT CONSTANT UPDATES BY MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA Applied Materials, Inc.
18051181 USING A SEGMENTED THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL TO CONTROL MULTIPLE PRINTHEADS TO PERFORM PARALLEL, SEGMENTED THREE-DIMENSIONAL PRINTING Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18431367 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WELDING ASSET IDENTIFICATION Non-Final OA ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
18567149 ABNORMALITY PROCESSING APPARATUS, NETWORK SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PROCEDURE WITH RESPECT TO ABNORMALITY HAVING OCCURRED IN ROBOT SYSTEM Non-Final OA Fanuc Corporation
18278217 CONTROL SYSTEM, CONTROL DEVICE, AND EXTERNAL DEVICE Non-Final OA Fanuc Corporation
18272293 ANALYSIS METHOD, ANALYSIS PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE Non-Final OA Yokogawa Electric Corporation
18487816 BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH INTELLIGENT VISUALIZATION FOR OCCUPANCY AND ENERGY USAGE INTEGRATION Non-Final OA Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLP
18495300 COMPACT-FORM MODEL-FREE ADAPTIVE DISTURBANCE COMPENSATION CONTROL IN THE PRESENCE OF MEASURABLE DISTURBANCES Non-Final OA Zhejiang University
18533297 Stochastic Control Subject to Generative AI-Based Disturbance Non-Final OA Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
18270271 DRIVE SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM Non-Final OA OMRON CORPORATION
18145445 ANALYSIS DEVICE, ANALYSIS METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection OMRON CORPORATION
18573756 SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOVING PARTS THEREOF Non-Final OA BEIJING NAURA MICROELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
18564029 METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AIR CONDITIONER, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA GD MIDEA HEATING & VENTILATING EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
18343169 TWO-STAGE SELF-ORGANIZING OPTIMIZED AGGREGATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES OF VIRTUAL POWER PLANT (VPP) Final Rejection Changsha University of Science and Technology

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