Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: SMITH, KEVIN LEE

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122

This examiner grants 38% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

37.7%
Allow Rate
-17.3% vs TC avg
184
Total Applications
+19.4%
Interview Lift
1687
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 138 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

31.2%
§101 Eligibility
10.9%
§102 Novelty
39.8%
§103 Obviousness
13.5%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17939210 METHOD, AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING HUMAN WELLNESS RECOMMENDATION BASED ON UWB BASED HUMAN ACTIVITY DETECTION Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17587729 Systems and Methods for Implementing a Hybrid Machine Vision Model to Optimize Performance of a Machine Vision Job Non-Final OA ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
18521665 NEURAL NETWORK DEVICE AND SYNAPTIC WEIGHT UPDATE METHOD Non-Final OA KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18152960 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ASCERTAINING A FUSION OF PREDICTIONS RELATING TO SENSOR SIGNALS Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
17366639 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATING A SYSTEM FOR THE AUTOMATED CREATION OF MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
17777708 Reducing Errors with Circuit Gauge Selection Final Rejection Google LLC
18574793 DECENTRALIZED ACTIVE-LEARNING MODEL UPDATE AND BROADCAST MECHANISM IN INTERNET-OF-THINGS ENVIRONMENT Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17488289 FRACTIONAL INFERENCE ON GPU AND CPU FOR LARGE SCALE DEPLOYMENT OF CUSTOMIZED TRANSFORMERS BASED LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
17589691 ENSEMBLE CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS HAVING SUBCLASS RESOLUTION Final Rejection The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
17677159 System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Time Series Based Machine Learning Model Reduction Strategy Non-Final OA Visa International Service Association
17539271 System and Method for Contextual Density Ratio-based Biasing of Sequence-to-Sequence Processing Systems Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18436860 STRUCTURE OF ML MODEL INFORMATION AND ITS USAGE Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
17032951 System and Method for Improved Structural Discovery and Representation Learning of Multi-Agent Data Non-Final OA STATS LLC
18168774 REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR OPTIMIZING CROSS-CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS Final Rejection Optum, Inc.
17544314 TRAINING OF QUANTUM BOLTZMANN MACHINES BY QUANTUM IMAGINARY-TIME EVOLUTION Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
16952398 SOUND ANOMALY DETECTION USING DATA AUGMENTATION Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17794797 PLANNING FOR AGENT CONTROL USING LEARNED HIDDEN STATES Final Rejection DeepMind Technologies Limited
17487489 METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MANAGING DISK Non-Final OA EMC IP Holding Company, LLC

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