Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: VANCHY JR, MICHAEL J

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2624 2666 2668

This examiner grants 67% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

66.8%
Allow Rate
+4.8% vs TC avg
631
Total Applications
+20.1%
Interview Lift
1213
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 611 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

12.7%
§101 Eligibility
8.9%
§102 Novelty
63.1%
§103 Obviousness
9.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18849458 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18838616 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA Sony Group Corporation
18348002 FRAME-ANOMALY BASED VIDEO SHOT SEGMENTATION USING SELF-SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING (ML) MODEL Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18867593 NON-VISIBLE-SPECTRUM LIGHT IMAGE-BASED TRAINING AND USE OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
18687572 Processing System, Processing Unit and Processing Method for Processing Object Detection Results Based on Sensor Visibilities Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18950987 HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING CALIBRATION FOR PROCESS MONITORING SYSTEM FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Non-Final OA General Electric Company
18791789 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENCODING/DECODING THREE DIMENSIONAL DATA AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME Non-Final OA Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
18873871 ELECTRONIC DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM Non-Final OA KYOCERA Corporation
18872877 INCOMPATABILITY DETECTION DEVICE AND INCOMPATABILITY DETECTION METHOD Non-Final OA Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
18498951 PROCESSING AND CONTEXTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF VIDEO SEGMENTS Final Rejection Roku, Inc.
18108749 CAMERA-RADAR DATA FUSION FOR EFFICIENT OBJECT DETECTION Final Rejection Waymo LLC
18355788 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH FRAME CLASS IDENTIFICATION Final Rejection Seoul National University R&DB Foundation
18838336 IMAGE STANDARDIZATION METHOD AND OBSERVATION APPARATUS Non-Final OA SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd.
19004870 FOLDABLE MOBILE DEVICE CAMERA AND FACE DETECTION Non-Final OA Motorola Mobility LLC
18867001 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTORTION ADJUSTMENT DURING INSPECTION Non-Final OA ASML Netherlands B.V.
19004269 A METHOD FOR DETERMINING VALUES OF A CONVOLUTION KERNEL FOR AN ITERATIVE STATISTICAL RECONSTRUCTION PROCEDURE USED IN PET IMAGING Non-Final OA CZESTOCHOWA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

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