Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 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
285
Total Applications
+21.9%
Interview Lift
1064
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 263 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

4.8%
§101 Eligibility
5.4%
§102 Novelty
61.7%
§103 Obviousness
19.9%
§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.
19024829 LARGE INTEGER MULTIPLICATION ENHANCEMENTS FOR GRAPHICS ENVIRONMENT Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
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
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
17893943 MERGING BIT-MASK ATOMICS TO THE SAME DWORD Non-Final OA 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
18874316 ACCELERATOR OFFLOAD DEVICE, ACCELERATOR OFFLOAD METHOD AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
18072053 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO SYNCHRONIZE MATRIX MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE MEMORY TRANSACTIONS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
17985869 COMPLEX NUMBER MATRIX MULTIPLICATION PROCESSORS, METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND INSTRUCTIONS Non-Final OA Altera Corporation

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