Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: SPRAUL III, VINCENT ANTON

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2129

This examiner grants 59% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

58.8%
Allow Rate
+3.8% vs TC avg
64
Total Applications
+34.7%
Interview Lift
1654
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 34 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

22.6%
§101 Eligibility
9.1%
§102 Novelty
48.4%
§103 Obviousness
14.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17556657 PRUNING AND/OR QUANTIZING MACHINE LEARNING PREDICTORS Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
17661960 Predictive Severity Matrix Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
18344831 NEURAL NETWORK INFERENCE BASED ON TABLE LOOKUP Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18222327 MEMORY EFFICIENT SEQUENCE GENERATION NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Google LLC
17193171 IMITATION LEARNING WITH FITTED Q ITERATION Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18333670 CONVERTING HISTORICAL TRANSACTION DATA INTO MERCHANT VECTORS FOR MODEL TRAINING Non-Final OA The Toronto-Dominion Bank
18331248 DATA ANALYSIS METHOD, DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM, AND DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM SERVER Non-Final OA SHIMADZU CORPORATION
17466195 ONLINE CONTINUAL LEARNING SYSTEM AND METHOD Non-Final OA NAVER CORPORATION
18358983 COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING MACHINE LEARNING PROGRAM AND MACHINE LEARNING METHOD Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
18161260 ONTOLOGY-DRIVEN PARAMETER EFFICIENT REPRESENTATIONS FOR KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS Final Rejection Accenture Global Solutions Limited
17659516 DATA ANNOTATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18318409 Compiler for Quantum Computing Non-Final OA Northeastern University
17486272 PREDICTIVE ANOMALY DETECTION USING DEFINED INTERACTION LEVEL ANOMALY SCORES Final Rejection UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
18185897 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Beijing Tusen Zhitu Technology Co., Ltd.
18034425 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING TARGET DEEP LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA JINA AI (BEIJING) CO., LTD.
18157476 Method and System for Improving Continual Learning Through Error Sensitivity Modulation Non-Final OA NavInfo Europe B.V.
17773877 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PREDICTING AND CONTROLLING TIME SERIES DATA BASED ON AUTOMATIC LEARNING Non-Final OA INEEJI Co., Ltd.
17226598 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING AN ARTIFICIAL NEURON NETWORK IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Non-Final OA ST Microelectronics (Rousset) SAS

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