Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: STORK, KYLE R

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2128 2143 2144 2178 2672

This examiner grants 64% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

64.0%
Allow Rate
+2.0% vs TC avg
916
Total Applications
+28.3%
Interview Lift
1484
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 865 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

14.9%
§101 Eligibility
12.1%
§102 Novelty
58.5%
§103 Obviousness
6.1%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17317421 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREMENTAL LEARNING Final Rejection Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17386812 SOFTWARE MODEL TESTING FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection Bank of America Corporation
18014099 LEARNING DEVICE, FEATURE CALCULATION PROGRAM GENERATION METHOD AND SIMILARITY CALCULATOR Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
17785554 FEATURE LEARNING SYSTEM, FEATURE LEARNING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
17996232 HYBRID TRAINING METHOD FOR SELF-LEARNING ALGORITHMS Final Rejection ZF Friedrichshafen AG
18638399 Devices, Methods, and User Interfaces for Providing Audio Notifications Final Rejection Apple Inc.
18114629 Gesture Tutorial for a Finger-Wearable Device Final Rejection Apple Inc.
17827222 SPARSIFYING VECTORS FOR NEURAL NETWORK MODELS BASED ON OVERLAPPING WINDOWS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17566898 ENHANCED LEXICON-BASED CLASSIFIER MODELS WITH TUNABLE ERROR-RATE TRADEOFFS Non-Final OA MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
17167549 HYPER-PERSONALIZED QUALIFIED APPLICANT MODELS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
17261717 METHOD FOR AUTOMATED GENERATION OF ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT FINAL SETUPS Final Rejection 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
17358148 EXPLAINING A THEOREM PROVING MODEL Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17580001 LINKAGE DATA GENERATOR Final Rejection PayPal, Inc.
18216217 STYLUS TRAJECTORY PREDICTION Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17820900 DEEP NEURAL NETWORK (DNN) ACCELERATORS WITH HETEROGENEOUS TILING Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18184379 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AN OPTIMAL ARCHITECTURE OF A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
17957581 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEEP LEARNING-BASED SOUND PREDICTION USING ACCELEROMETER DATA Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
17837206 DEVICE, A COMPUTER PROGRAM AND A COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR TRAINING A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH EMBEDDING MODEL Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
17611088 OPERATION OF TRAINABLE MODULES, INCLUDING MONITORING AS TO WHETHER THE RANGE OF APPLICATION OF THE TRAINING IS ABANDONED Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18467804 DIRECT DEPTH PREDICTION Non-Final OA QUALCOMM Incorporated
17892902 Result Explanation Using Template Populated from Homogenous Search Non-Final OA SAP SE
17881753 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELETING TRAINED DATA OF DEEP LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
17852531 AI MODEL LEARNING METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON SELF-LEARNING FOR FOCUSING ON SPECIFIC AREAS Final Rejection Korea Electronics Technology Institute
17663464 HIERARCHICAL MULTI-MODEL GENERATION IN NETWORK AND CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEMS Non-Final OA Juniper Networks, Inc.
17215558 Systems and Methods for Classification and Time Series Calibration in Identity Health Analysis Final Rejection Allstate Insurance Company
18300721 STRUCTURED DOCUMENT GENERATION FROM TEXT PROMPTS Final Rejection ADOBE INC.
17508213 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING SYSTEM THROUGHPUT Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
17827390 TRAINING PERCEPTION MODELS USING SYNTHETIC DATA FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
17132847 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PREDICTING A SPLIT LANE TRAFFIC PATTERN Final Rejection HERE GLOBAL B.V.
18235529 Microscopy System and Method for Testing a Quality of a Machine-Learned Image Processing Model Non-Final OA Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH

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