Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: SAIN, GAUTAM

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2135 2185

This examiner grants 67% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

66.7%
Allow Rate
+11.7% vs TC avg
455
Total Applications
+25.1%
Interview Lift
1248
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 415 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

5.9%
§101 Eligibility
1.4%
§102 Novelty
65.1%
§103 Obviousness
25.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18813697 STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE SYSTEM Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18793347 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULING AND ARBITRATION QOS IMPROVEMENT BY EARLY FEEDBACK Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18428332 COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE SYSTEM, METHOD OF OPERATION OF COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE SYSTEMS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17729948 FETCHING NON-ZERO DATA Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18287217 METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY STORING DATA Final Rejection MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG
17133624 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR FINE GRAINED LOW LATENCY DECOMPRESSION WITHIN PROCESSOR CORE Final Rejection Intel Corporation
19029590 STORING DATA IN A HOST MEMORY BUFFER Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
19002424 ALLOCATING MEMORY BLOCKS FOR FEATURES DURING MEMORY DEVICE SETUP Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18985912 PROGRAMMING VIDEO DATA TO DIFFERENT PORTIONS OF MEMORY Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18984753 SELF-REFRESH EXIT DETECTION FOR MEMORY DEVICES Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18965820 CACHE MEMORIES IN VERTICALLY INTEGRATED MEMORY SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
17550914 Solid State Drives with Hardware Accelerators for Proof of Space Computations Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18399525 PROCESSOR SYSTEM INCLUDING TABLE-BASED MEMORY PROTECTION FOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE FOR SHARED MEMORY Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
18628832 Modified representation of backup copy on restore Final Rejection Salesforce, Inc.
18813522 MRAM Final Rejection AISIN CORPORATION
18991951 SIMPLE ELASTIC FILE-BASED MULTI-CLASS STORAGE LAYER (EFMS) Non-Final OA Kioxia Corporation
18374219 OPTIMIZED GARBAGE COLLECTION Final Rejection Kioxia Corporation
18906645 DATA STORAGE METHOD AND DEVICE Final Rejection Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd.
18083046 INTELLIGENT BACKUP SCHEDULING AND SIZING Final Rejection ServiceNow, Inc.
18851533 DATA WRITING METHOD, STORAGE DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE DEVICE Final Rejection Zhongshan Longsys Electronics Co., Ltd.
19030377 DATA WRITING CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE DEVICE Non-Final OA Hefei Kaimeng Technology Co., Ltd.
18745994 DIRECTED REFRESH MANAGEMENT (DRFM) ADDRESS CAPTURE IN HIGH-BANDWIDTH MEMORY (HBM) Final Rejection ATI Technologies ULC
19028056 METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND APPARATUS FOR ACCELERATING EXECUTION OF HOST READ COMMANDS Non-Final OA Silicon Motion, Inc.
18918668 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING LOGICAL OPERATIONS USING SENSING CIRCUITRY Final Rejection Lodestar Licensing Group, LLC
18605518 DIRECT CONNECT BETWEEN NETWORK INTERFACE AND GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT IN SELF-HOSTED MODE IN A MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEM Non-Final OA NVIDIA CORPORATION
18665240 Methods and Systems for Processing-in-Memory Scope Release Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18485070 Smart Host Stream Release Final Rejection Sandisk Technologies, Inc.
17313668 DEVICE-INITIATED INPUT/OUTPUT ASSISTANCE FOR COMPUTATIONAL NON-VOLATILE MEMORY ON DISK-CACHED AND TIERED SYSTEMS Final Rejection SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (dba Solidigm)
17705051 INTERFACE FOR DIFFERENT INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL MEMORY IO PATHS Non-Final OA Intel NDTM US LLC

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