Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 01, 2026

Examiner: REECE, CHRISTOPHER LANE

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2176 2824 2827 4100

This examiner grants 89% of resolved cases

Analysis

Christopher Lane Reece is an examiner in Tech Center 4100 and Art Unit 2176. He has 35 resolved cases in his record. The allowance rate for these cases is 88.6 percent. This 88.6 percent rate provides a baseline for applicants to understand the frequency of patent grants in his docket. With 35 resolved cases, the data offers a perspective on his examination history.

The interview lift is 15.0 percent. This 15.0 percent figure is lower than the 88.6 percent allowance rate, but it still indicates the increase in the likelihood of allowance when an interview is conducted. Practitioners in Art Unit 2176 can use this lift to inform their strategy. The median days to allowance is 866. This 866-day period represents the time typically required to reach a grant. Stakeholders can use the 866-day metric and the 35 resolved cases to plan their prosecution timelines in Tech Center 4100.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

88.6%
Allow Rate
+28.6% vs TC avg
68
Total Applications
+15.0%
Interview Lift
866
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 35 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

0%
§101 Eligibility
16.8%
§102 Novelty
69.0%
§103 Obviousness
9.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19012628 MEMORY DEVICE PERFORMING INFORMATION DATA READ OPERATION AND INFORMATION DATA READ METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18925340 ADVANCED CLOCK SIGNAL DRIVERS AND MEMORY SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE SAME Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18793256 RESISTIVE MEMORY DEVICE CAPABLE OF INCREASING MEMORY CAPACITY Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18679809 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18779378 MEMORY BUILT-IN-SELF-TEST (MBIST) WITH ENHANCED FAULT COUNTER Non-Final OA NXP USA, Inc.
17843211 SPLIT FOOTER TOPOLOGY TO IMPROVE VMIN AND LEAKAGE POWER FOR REGISTER FILE AND READ ONLY MEMORY DESIGNS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
19015036 Program Operations in Memory Devices Non-Final OA Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
18614163 PAGE BUFFERS AND OPERATION METHODS THEREOF, AND MEMORY DEVICES AND MEMORY SYSTEMS Final Rejection Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
18485084 MEMORY AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF, MEMORY SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Final Rejection Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., Ltd.
18591856 SEMICONDUCTOR STORAGE DEVICE AND MEMORY SYSTEM Final Rejection Kioxia Corporation
18667112 CLOCK GATING OF FREE INDEX FLOP ARRAYS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18937271 REUSING PARTIALLY FILLED SUPERBLOCKS FOR PROGRAMMING Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18785479 CORRECTIVE PROGRAM CONVERGENCE ASSOCIATED WITH MEMORY CELLS OF A MEMORY SUB-SYSTEM Non-Final OA MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
18738644 PROCESSING-IN-MEMORY OPERATIONS, AND RELATED APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18624570 ALTERNATING BITLINE PAGE MAPPING WITH LINEAR WORDLINE RAMPING DURING A READ OPERATION Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18417899 COMPLEX PAGE ACCESS IN MEMORY DEVICES Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
19011147 SRAM POWER-UP RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR Non-Final OA Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
18790547 MEMORY CIRCUITS WITH REGISTER CIRCUTIS AND METHODS FOR OPERATING THE SAME Non-Final OA Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
18943434 MULTI-PORT MEMORY DEVICE WITH BUILT-IN CONFIGURABLE LOGIC BLOCK TO PERFORM A PARALLEL COMPUTING OPERATION Final Rejection Rambus Inc.
18702810 3D FLASH MEMORY AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA IUCF-HYU (Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University)
18510978 ACHIEVING DIFFERENT HIGH VOLTAGES ON INDIVIDUAL BITLINES OF A MEMORY DEVICE Non-Final OA Sandisk Technologies, Inc.
18231629 ERASE TECHNIQUES USING ANALOG BITSCAN IN A MEMORY DEVICE Final Rejection Sandisk Technologies, Inc.
18762131 Data Storage System Using a Light Valve System Non-Final OA Seurat Technologies, Inc.
18005756 SPIN ORBIT TORQUE MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY CELL, SPIN ORBIT TORQUE MAGNETIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY ARRAY, AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING HAMMING DISTANCE Non-Final OA INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

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