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Last updated: October 27, 2026

Ryan C Vaughn, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as VAUGHN, RYAN C

Tech Center 4100 • Art Units: 2123 2125 2127 2812 2853 4100

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Analysis

VAUGHN, RYAN C has resolved 260 cases in technology center 4100 and art unit 2123. The allowance rate is 61.9%, and the median time to allowance is 1394 days. Interviews are associated with a 17.2% lift in the allowance rate. The record shows an allowance rate above half of resolved cases and a measurable interview association.

International Business Machines Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, and Capital One Services LLC are the listed leading companies. Harrity & Harrity, LLP, DINSMORE & SHOHL LLP, and FINNEGAN, HENDERSON, FARABOW, GARRETT & DUNNER are the listed leading firms. Practitioners can use these participants to identify recurring docket activity and evaluate interviews within a broader response plan.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

61.9%
Allow Rate
+1.9% vs TC avg
306
Total Applications
+17.2%
Interview Lift
1394
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 260 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

22.3%
§101 Eligibility
8.1%
§102 Novelty
41.2%
§103 Obviousness
22.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18269734 TRAINING OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18035333 MANAGING TRAINING OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Final Rejection Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18498738 DATA GENERATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL TRAINING Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
17198624 IDENTIFYING TRENDS USING EMBEDDING DRIFT OVER TIME Final Rejection Capital One Services, LLC
18227758 APPROXIMATE CONFUSION MATRIX FOR MULTI-LABEL CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
17893050 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18563594 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TESTING DEEP LEARNING MODEL AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
18221454 NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING IN A DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
18381360 Temporal Convolution-Readout for Random Recurrent Neural Networks Non-Final OA The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
18526214 METHOD OF ASSESSING INPUT-OUTPUT DATASETS USING NEIGHBORHOOD CRITERIA IN THE INPUT SPACE AND THE OUTPUT SPACE Final Rejection Siemens Mobility GmbH
18527304 FAULT-TOLERANT QUANTUM COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18477873 ERROR MITIGATED NETWORKS OF FEED-FORWARD OPERATIONS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18178240 NOISE LEARNING IN DYNAMIC QUANTUM CIRCUITS Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17962330 TRAINING A BIDIRECTIONAL ENCODER REPRESENTATIONS FROM TRANSFORMERS (BERT) MODEL TO GENERATE A SOFTWARE REPRESENTATION FROM AN INTERMEDIATE REPRESENTATION OF A SOFTWARE PACKAGE Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
17452517 ADAPTIVE DRIFT DFETECTION AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR NON-STATIONARY DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18098061 TECHNIQUES FOR PRUNING NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
16913160 INTERACTION DETERMINATION USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection Nvidia Corporation
16428760 TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK USING SELECTIVE WEIGHT UPDATES Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18151548 METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ESTIMATE PERFORMANCE OF SESSION BASED RECOMMENDATION MODEL LAYERS ON FPGA Non-Final OA Tata Consultancy Services Limited
18271686 DEVICE, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR WEIGHTED KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER Final Rejection HITACHI, LTD.
18407930 METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CLASSIFYING RADAR DATA FROM A SCENE, METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR TRAINING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS TO CLASSIFY RADAR DATA Non-Final OA Infineon Technologies AG
18510234 METHODS FOR 3D TENSOR BUILDER FOR INPUT TO MACHINE LEARNING Final Rejection Tektronix, Inc.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Ryan C Vaughn's allowance rate?

61.9% of resolved applications examined by Ryan C Vaughn were allowed (260 resolved cases), compared with 38.8% across Art Unit 2123 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Ryan C Vaughn?

This examiner's interview lift is +17.2 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Ryan C Vaughn take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Ryan C Vaughn took 1,394 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Ryan C Vaughn work in?

Ryan C Vaughn examines applications in Art Unit 2123 in Tech Center 4100.

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