Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: RICKS, DONNA J

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2612 2618 2628 2677 2679

This examiner grants 77% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

77.1%
Allow Rate
+15.1% vs TC avg
532
Total Applications
+8.8%
Interview Lift
1026
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 502 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

11.1%
§101 Eligibility
13.7%
§102 Novelty
58.3%
§103 Obviousness
8.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18252363 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY MOVEMENT OF CONVERSATIONAL AGENT Final Rejection SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18642353 GRAPHICS PROCESSING Non-Final OA Arm Limited
18766440 FACIAL EXPRESSION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
18087654 OUTPUTTING REPRESENTATIONS HAVING LEVELS OF LIGHT ILLUMINATION THAT ARE BASED ON A USER'S RATE OF EYE ADAPTATION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17967740 CHAINED ACCELERATOR OPERATIONS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17849106 LOCAL MEMORY TRANSLATION TABLE Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18670449 DECOMPOSITION OF WRITE MEMORY ACCESSES Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18709469 DPU DRIVEN ADAPTIVE SYNC FOR COMMAND MODE PANELS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18603888 BITWIDTH RESPONSIVE PROCESS OPERATIONS Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18481909 CACHE MEMORY ARCHITECTURE AUGMENTATION FOR 3-DIMENSIONAL (3D) DATA Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18338272 EFFICIENT CACHE USAGE IN AN IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18394420 APPLYING TEXTURE PROCESSING TO A BLOCK OF FRAGMENTS IN A GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT Non-Final OA Imagination Technologies Limited
18539945 METHOD FOR GENERATING AND VALIDATING SHADER SNAPSHOTS Non-Final OA ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC
17525636 MEMORY ALLOCATION USING GRAPHS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18615035 LOCAL SHADER ENGINE GEOMETRY AND ATTRIBUTE SHADING Final Rejection ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
18424594 MULTI-USER MULTI-GPU RENDER SERVER APPARATUS AND METHODS Non-Final OA PME IP PTY LTD

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