Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: ROBERTS, SHAUN A

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2626 2655 2657

This examiner grants 76% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

75.9%
Allow Rate
+13.9% vs TC avg
678
Total Applications
+10.3%
Interview Lift
1040
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 647 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

7.6%
§101 Eligibility
29.5%
§102 Novelty
49.2%
§103 Obviousness
3.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18819226 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT KEYWORD SPOTTING Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18483506 ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE DEVICE ADAPTIVELY PROCESSING AUDIO BITSTREAM BY CONDITIONALLY EXECUTING BANDWIDTH EXTENSION Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18545607 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING UNDESIRED AUDITORY ROUGHNESS Final Rejection Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18577225 ENCODING DEVICE AND METHOD, DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA Sony Group Corporation
18376486 Apparatus, Methods and Computer Programs for Audio Signal Enhancement Using a Dataset Final Rejection Nokia Technologies Oy
18740555 VOICE COMMAND RECEIVING DEVICE, VOICE COMMAND RECEIVING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA JVCKENWOOD Corporation
18765108 VOICE SHORTCUT DETECTION WITH SPEAKER VERIFICATION Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18649608 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VOICE-BASED INITIATION OF CUSTOM DEVICE ACTIONS Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18652648 Audio Processing Engine Using Segmentation And Pruning Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18644449 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENCODING OR DECODING DIRECTIONAL AUDIO CODING PARAMETERS USING QUANTIZATION AND ENTROPY CODING Final Rejection Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18405402 INTEGRAL BAND-WISE PARAMETRIC AUDIO CODING Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18750618 QUERY AUGMENTATION Final Rejection Intuit Inc.
18813647 AUDIO ANALYSIS SYSTEM WITH QUERY PROCESSING Non-Final OA SRI International
18228349 AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION FOR INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE SYSTEMS Non-Final OA Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
17986782 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING KNOWLEDGE GRAPH AND SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THEREOF Non-Final OA NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY
18608476 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ANY TO ANY VOICE CONVERSION Final Rejection Datum Point Labs Inc.
18506510 FULL-BAND AUDIO SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION ENABLED BY OUTPUT FROM A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Final Rejection SHURE ACQUISITION HOLDINGS, INC.
18811550 CROSS-MODAL TRAINING OF A MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL THAT IDENTIFIES ABUSE IN AUDIO STREAMS Non-Final OA Roblox Corporation
18751047 INTELLIGENT CONSTRAINED DECODING Non-Final OA Scaled Cognition, Inc.
18670369 Prompt Generation Non-Final OA Sage Global Services Limited
18617602 VOICE DETECTION METHOD, VOICE DETECTION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER DEVICE Non-Final OA AAC Technologies (Nanjing) Co., Ltd.

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