Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: RYLANDER, BART I

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2124

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

62.4%
Allow Rate
+7.4% vs TC avg
138
Total Applications
+15.0%
Interview Lift
1395
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 109 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

19.8%
§101 Eligibility
7.4%
§102 Novelty
62.8%
§103 Obviousness
7.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18360136 SPLITTING OF INPUT DATA FOR PROCESSING IN NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSOR Final Rejection Apple Inc.
17845063 ACCELERATED TRANSFER LEARNING AS A SERVICE FOR NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17063329 SHARED MEMORY SPACES IN DATA AND MODEL PARALLELISM Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18067871 GENERATION OF DATA TRANSFORMATIONS USING FINGERPRINTS Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17651213 GENERATIVE MODELS BASED ASSISTANT FOR DESIGN AND CREATIVITY Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18337462 Channel Gating For Conditional Computation Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
18788420 RCD SEAL AND BEARING CONDITION Final Rejection WEATHERFORD TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, LLC
18311984 PERSONALIZED FEDERATED LEARNING VIA HETEROGENEOUS MODULAR NETWORKS Non-Final OA NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
18225371 DYNAMIC COMPRESSION AND SPECIALIZATION OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
18112133 LEARNING METHOD OF VALUE CALCULATION MODEL AND SELECTION PROBABILITY ESTIMATION METHOD Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
15907098 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE-TO-IMAGE TRANSLATION USING VARIATIONAL AUTOENCODERS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18025850 FREQUENCY MULTIPLEXED PHOTONIC NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
18839088 METHOD OF PERFORMING A QUANTUM COMPUTATION, APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING A QUANTUM COMPUTATION Non-Final OA PARITY QUANTUM COMPUTING GMBH
17206705 USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO DETERMINE A VALUE FOR A VARIABLE SIZE COMPONENT Final Rejection Stitch Fix, Inc.

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