Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: SPANN, COURTNEY P

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2122 2183

This examiner grants 80% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

79.8%
Allow Rate
+24.8% vs TC avg
279
Total Applications
+21.3%
Interview Lift
1087
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 258 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

6.4%
§101 Eligibility
9.1%
§102 Novelty
44.6%
§103 Obviousness
28.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19000863 MEMORY DEVICE WITH ADDRESS GENERATOR AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18779177 TWO-DIMENSIONAL ZERO PADDING IN A STREAM OF MATRIX ELEMENTS Non-Final OA TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
18396225 APPARATUS, SYSTEM, CHIP-CONTAINING PRODUCT AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Arm Limited
18193413 VECTOR MULTIPLY-ADD/SUBTRACT WITH INTERMEDIATE ROUNDING Non-Final OA INTEL CORPORATION
18091628 INSTRUCTIONS AND SUPPORT FOR CONDITIONAL COMPARISON AND TEST Non-Final OA INTEL CORPORATION
18058114 HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE TO ACCELERATE GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS WITH OPTIMIZED SIMD-MIMD PROCESSING ELEMENTS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17991811 EXECUTABLE PASSING USING MAILBOX REGISTERS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18055315 ACCELERATING DATA LOAD AND COMPUTATION IN FRONTEND CONVOLUTIONAL LAYER Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17953184 SHORT PIPELINE FOR FAST RECOVERY FROM A BRANCH MISPREDICTION Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17559804 SIGNATURE-BASED AUTOMATIC OFFLOAD TO HARDWARE ACCELERATORS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18100190 ARITHMETIC PROCESSING APPARATUS WHICH EXECUTES PLURALITY OF INSTRUCTIONS IN PARALLEL AND SEQUENTIALLY FROM EXECUTABLE INSTRUCTIONS AND METHOD FOR ARITHMETIC PROCESSING Final Rejection Fujitsu Limited
18072053 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO SYNCHRONIZE MATRIX MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE MEMORY TRANSACTIONS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
17478079 PARALLEL PROCESSING OF THREAD GROUPS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
17240820 ACCELERATION OF OPERATIONS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18530409 PROCESSOR INSTRUCTION EXCEPTION HANDLING Final Rejection Akeana, Inc.
18565198 AHEAD PREDICTION METHOD AND BRANCH TRACE CACHE FOR DIRECT JUMPING Non-Final OA Suzhou Ricore IC Technologies Ltd.
17985869 COMPLEX NUMBER MATRIX MULTIPLICATION PROCESSORS, METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND INSTRUCTIONS Non-Final OA Altera Corporation

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