Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: SMITH, KEVIN LEE

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122

This examiner grants 38% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

37.5%
Allow Rate
-17.5% vs TC avg
182
Total Applications
+19.3%
Interview Lift
1685
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 136 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

21.2%
§101 Eligibility
5.7%
§102 Novelty
68.5%
§103 Obviousness
3.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17939210 METHOD, AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING HUMAN WELLNESS RECOMMENDATION BASED ON UWB BASED HUMAN ACTIVITY DETECTION Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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
17677159 System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Time Series Based Machine Learning Model Reduction Strategy Final Rejection Visa International Service Association
17508079 MULTI-OBSERVER, CONSENSUS-BASED GROUND TRUTH Non-Final OA Dell Products, L.P.
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
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
17688650 GENERATING AND UTILIZING SYNTHETIC TIME SERIES DATA FOR IMPOVING SUBSTRATE MANUFACTURING Non-Final OA Applied Materials, Inc.
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
17488289 FRACTIONAL INFERENCE ON GPU AND CPU FOR LARGE SCALE DEPLOYMENT OF CUSTOMIZED TRANSFORMERS BASED LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18174683 MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM, MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OPTIMIZATION METHOD, AND PARAMETERIZED QUANTUM CIRCUIT Non-Final OA KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
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
17049349 TRAINING METHOD OF NEURAL NETWORK BASED ON MEMRISTOR AND TRAINING DEVICE THEREOF Final Rejection TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
17521705 PIPELINING AND PARALLELISM FOR IMPLEMENTING A MIXTURE MODEL Non-Final OA Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
17528001 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR HYBRID TEMPORAL-UTILITY CLASSIFICATION DETERMINATIONS Non-Final OA UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
18078480 COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROBUST CONFIDENCE INTERVAL ANALYSIS Final Rejection Minitab, LLC
17487489 METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MANAGING DISK Final Rejection EMC IP Holding Company, LLC
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 Non-Final OA Cognizant Technology Solutions U.S. Corporation

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