Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: VAUGHN, RYAN C

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 2123 2125 2127 2812

This examiner grants 61% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

61.0%
Allow Rate
-7.0% vs TC avg
293
Total Applications
+20.2%
Interview Lift
1392
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 251 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

22.0%
§101 Eligibility
8.2%
§102 Novelty
41.0%
§103 Obviousness
22.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18142170 ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING CONVOLUTION CALCULATION AND OPERATION METHOD THEREFOR Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
17523977 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH ELECTRONIC MEMORY COPYING OF A NATURAL NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
17946409 COMPILING OF TASKS FOR STREAMING OPERATIONS AT NEURAL PROCESSOR Final Rejection Apple Inc.
18563594 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TESTING DEEP LEARNING MODEL AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
18458220 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
18153655 Method and Device Used for Providing and Evaulating a Sensor Model for Change Point Detection Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
17893050 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
17589542 ATTENTION NEURAL NETWORKS WITH SPARSE ATTENTION MECHANISMS Final Rejection Google LLC
17198624 IDENTIFYING TRENDS USING EMBEDDING DRIFT OVER TIME Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
18227758 APPROXIMATE CONFUSION MATRIX FOR MULTI-LABEL CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18084234 NEURON CIRCUIT WITH SYNAPTIC WEIGHT LEARNING Final Rejection Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
18526214 METHOD OF ASSESSING INPUT-OUTPUT DATASETS USING NEIGHBORHOOD CRITERIA IN THE INPUT SPACE AND THE OUTPUT SPACE Final Rejection Siemens Mobility GmbH
18271686 DEVICE, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR WEIGHTED KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER Final Rejection HITACHI, LTD.
18269734 TRAINING OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Final Rejection Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18035333 MANAGING TRAINING OF A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18677751 SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROTECTION AGAINST EMBEDDING INVERSION ATTACK IN RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION Non-Final OA Rubrik, Inc.
18343836 System and method for training an artificial intelligent system based on entity rules, regulation rules, and core values Final Rejection Bank of America 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 Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18151548 METHOD AND SYSTEM TO ESTIMATE PERFORMANCE OF SESSION BASED RECOMMENDATION MODEL LAYERS ON FPGA Non-Final OA Tata Consultancy Services Limited
18477873 ERROR MITIGATED NETWORKS OF FEED-FORWARD OPERATIONS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18178240 NOISE LEARNING IN DYNAMIC QUANTUM CIRCUITS Non-Final OA 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
17654333 NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF GENERATING A LEARNING MODEL FOR CLASSIFYING DATA BY CHARACTERIZING THE DATA WITH ONE LABEL AMONG A PLURALITY OF LABELS Non-Final OA YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
18648325 SERVER APPARATUS FOR DRIVING ASSISTANCE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME Non-Final OA HL KLEMOVE CORP.
17428395 AUTOMATIC OPTIMIZATION OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS IN THE PRESENCE OF TARGET DATASETS Non-Final OA Urugus S.A.

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