Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: SMITH, KEVIN LEE

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122

This examiner grants 37% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

36.6%
Allow Rate
-18.4% vs TC avg
179
Total Applications
+18.0%
Interview Lift
1706
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 134 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

30.7%
§101 Eligibility
10.1%
§102 Novelty
36.4%
§103 Obviousness
17.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17899355 COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS HAVING TECHNOLOGICALLY IMPROVED MACHINE LEARNING RECOMMENDATION ENGINES CONFIGURED/PROGRAMMED TO UTILIZE DYNAMIC VARIABLE RATIO FEEDBACK AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
17697724 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING TRANSACTIONAL BEHAVIOR IN A NETWORK Final Rejection MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
17539271 System and Method for Contextual Density Ratio-based Biasing of Sequence-to-Sequence Processing Systems Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17688650 GENERATING AND UTILIZING SYNTHETIC TIME SERIES DATA FOR IMPOVING SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURING Non-Final OA Applied Materials, Inc.
18582445 REGULARIZING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA Google LLC
17544314 TRAINING OF QUANTUM BOLTZMANN MACHINES BY QUANTUM IMAGINARY-TIME EVOLUTION Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
16952398 SOUND ANOMALY DETECTION USING DATA AUGMENTATION Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17086277 SCALABLE DISCOVERY OF LEADERS FROM DYNAMIC COMBINATORIAL SEARCH SPACE USING INCREMENTAL PIPELINE GROWTH APPROACH Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18152960 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ASCERTAINING A FUSION OF PREDICTIONS RELATING TO SENSOR SIGNALS Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
17225484 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A CLASSIFIER Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
17222924 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HUMAN ACTION RECOGNITION AND INTENSITY INDEXING FROM VIDEO STREAM USING FUZZY ATTENTION MACHINE LEARNING Non-Final OA BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
17677159 System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Time Series Based Machine Learning Model Reduction Strategy Final Rejection Visa International Service Association
17533985 MACHINE LEARNING AND STATISTICAL BASED ANOMALY DETECTION ALGORITHM TO REACT TO CORRELATION SHIFTS Final Rejection Visa International Service Association
18168774 REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR OPTIMIZING CROSS-CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS Non-Final OA Optum, Inc.
17508079 MULTI-OBSERVER, CONSENSUS-BASED GROUND TRUTH Non-Final OA Dell Products, L.P.
18064273 Classical Preprocessing for Efficient State Preparation in Quantum Computers Non-Final OA Classiq Technologies LTD.
17794797 PLANNING FOR AGENT CONTROL USING LEARNED HIDDEN STATES Non-Final OA DeepMind Technologies Limited
17049349 TRAINING METHOD OF NEURAL NETWORK BASED ON MEMRISTOR AND TRAINING DEVICE THEREOF Final Rejection TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
16135710 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BAYESIAN NETWORK-BASED STANDARD OR SKILL MASTERY DETERMINATION USING A COLLECTION OF INTERIM ASSESSMENTS Non-Final OA Pearson Education, Inc.
18486489 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND OPTIMIZING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS Non-Final OA Actapio, Inc.
17487489 METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MANAGING DISK Final Rejection EMC IP Holding Company, LLC
17729585 METHOD FOR ENHANCED SAMPLING FROM A PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION Non-Final OA Multiverse Computing, S.L.
17222972 MACHINE-LEARNED ENTITY FUNCTION MANAGEMENT Non-Final OA Tekion Corp
17534123 HARDWARE DESIGNS FOR QUANTUM DATA LOADERS Final Rejection QC Ware Corp.
17064706 Method and System For Sharing Meta-Learning Method(s) Among Multiple Private Data Sets Final Rejection Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. Corporation

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