Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: SPRAUL III, VINCENT ANTON

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2129

This examiner grants 60% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

59.5%
Allow Rate
+4.5% vs TC avg
64
Total Applications
+26.7%
Interview Lift
1582
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 37 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

2.8%
§101 Eligibility
0.6%
§102 Novelty
93.8%
§103 Obviousness
1.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17661960 Predictive Severity Matrix Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
17237959 SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION, RATING AND RECOMMENDATION OF ENTITY RECORDS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
17556657 PRUNING AND/OR QUANTIZING MACHINE LEARNING PREDICTORS Non-Final OA Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
18333670 CONVERTING HISTORICAL TRANSACTION DATA INTO MERCHANT VECTORS FOR MODEL TRAINING Non-Final OA The Toronto-Dominion Bank
18344831 NEURAL NETWORK INFERENCE BASED ON TABLE LOOKUP Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17193171 IMITATION LEARNING WITH FITTED Q ITERATION Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17820593 NEURAL NETWORK BASED POWER AND PERFORMANCE MODEL FOR VERSATILE PROCESSING UNITS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18331248 DATA ANALYSIS METHOD, DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM, AND DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM SERVER Non-Final OA SHIMADZU CORPORATION
17268472 LEARNING DATA GENERATION DEVICE, LEARNING DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA NTT, INC.
17188338 NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING TECHNIQUE Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
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
18161260 ONTOLOGY-DRIVEN PARAMETER EFFICIENT REPRESENTATIONS FOR KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS Non-Final OA Accenture Global Solutions Limited
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.
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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