Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: RUTTEN, JAMES D

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2121 2192 2194 2197

This examiner grants 63% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

62.9%
Allow Rate
+7.9% vs TC avg
603
Total Applications
+38.4%
Interview Lift
1495
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 580 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

10.0%
§101 Eligibility
11.2%
§102 Novelty
50.6%
§103 Obviousness
16.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18038041 COMPUTER SURROGATE MODEL TO PREDICT THE SINGLE-PHASE MIXING QUALITY IN STEADY STATE MIXING TANKS Non-Final OA AMGEN INC.
18037298 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18035849 KNOWLEDGE INJECTION MODEL FOR GENERATIVE COMMONSENSE REASONING Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18156063 Operating Quantum Devices Using Unsupervised Learning Non-Final OA Google LLC
17513910 APPARATUS OF ANALOG-NEURON AND METHOD OF CONTROL OF ANALOG-NEURON Final Rejection KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
17129954 METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN EVALUATION AND CONTROL MODEL FOR CONTROLLING TARGET BUILDING AUTOMATION DEVICES OF A TARGET BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEM Non-Final OA ABB Schweiz AG
18192954 QUANTUM CIRCUIT MAPPING USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18059710 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MUTUAL INFORMATION (MI) BASED SPIKE ENCODING OPTIMIZATION OF MULTIVARIATE DATA Non-Final OA Tata Consultancy Services Limited
17802721 MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, CONTROL DEVICE, AND MACHINE LEARNING METHOD Non-Final OA FANUC CORPORATION
19066052 REFRIGERATION UNIT SAFETY MONITORING AND ANOMALY ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS Non-Final OA Axiom Cloud Inc.
17619602 GENERALIZED DATA GENERATION DEVICE, ESTIMATION DEVICE, GENERALIZED DATA GENERATION METHOD, ESTIMATION METHOD GENERALIZED DATA GENERATION PROGRAM, AND ESTIMATION PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
17454935 COMPILATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS INTO SUBGRAPHS FOR PROCESSING BY MULTIPLE COMPUTE CIRCUITS Final Rejection Xilinx, Inc.
17984612 Dual State Circuit for Energy Efficient Hardware Implementation of Spiking Neural Networks Non-Final OA University of Windsor
17321532 SYSTEM APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CLASSIFYING BIO-MECHANIC ACTIVITY Final Rejection New Stream Ltd.
17207440 RECOMMENDING TREATMENTS TO MITIGATE MEDICAL CONDITIONS AND PROMOTE SURVIVAL OF LIVING ORGANISMS USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA General Genomics, Inc.

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