Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: VAUGHN, RYAN C

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2125

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

61.8%
Allow Rate
+6.8% vs TC avg
283
Total Applications
+19.8%
Interview Lift
1390
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 241 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

18.1%
§101 Eligibility
2.7%
§102 Novelty
60.2%
§103 Obviousness
11.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18311884 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASPHALTENE ANOMALY PREDICTION Final Rejection Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
18301822 COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS CONFIGURED FOR DETECTING, CLASSIFYING, AND VISUALIZING EVENTS IN LARGE-SCALE, MULTIVARIATE AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATASETS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF Final Rejection Capital One Services, LLC
19301717 Logic Gate Networks Generated Using Differentiable Logic Gate Models Final Rejection Universität Konstanz
17971082 AUTOMATED DATA ARCHIVAL FRAMEWORK USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18271686 DEVICE, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR WEIGHTED KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER Non-Final OA HITACHI, LTD.
17589542 ATTENTION NEURAL NETWORKS WITH SPARSE ATTENTION MECHANISMS Final Rejection Google LLC
17177362 Predicting Machine-Learned Model Performance from the Parameter Values of the Model Final Rejection Google LLC
18071720 DEMAND FORECASTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE PARTS, MODULES, OR SERVICE ITEMS Final Rejection TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
17452517 ADAPTIVE DRIFT DFETECTION AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT FOR NON-STATIONARY DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17977344 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING GROUND STATE ENERGY OF QUANTUM SYSTEM Non-Final OA TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
18060405 METHODS OF TRAINING DEEP LEARNING MODEL AND PREDICTING CLASS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE METHODS Final Rejection ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
17893050 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18162617 NEURON CIRCUIT AND NEUROMORPHIC DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING FOR CHANGE IN SYNAPTIC PROPERTIES Non-Final OA SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION
17510782 INSTANCE ADAPTIVE TRAINING WITH NOISE ROBUST LOSSES AGAINST NOISY LABELS Non-Final OA TENCENT AMERICA LLC
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 Final Rejection YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
17595731 SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM, LEARNING PROCESSING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Final Rejection THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
17852450 Running Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks in Hardware Non-Final OA Imagination Technologies Limited
18098061 TECHNIQUES FOR PRUNING NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
16913160 INTERACTION DETERMINATION USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA Nvidia Corporation
16428760 TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK USING SELECTIVE WEIGHT UPDATES Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18072175 ACTION SELECTION FOR REINFORCEMENT LEARNING USING A MANAGER NEURAL NETWORK THAT GENERATES GOAL VECTORS DEFINING AGENT OBJECTIVES Non-Final OA DeepMind Technologies Limited
17678194 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REALIZING QUANTUM OPERATION Final Rejection Tsinghua University
17428395 AUTOMATIC OPTIMIZATION OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS IN THE PRESENCE OF TARGET DATASETS Non-Final OA Urugus S.A.
17664502 METHOD FOR TRAINING A BINARIZED NEURAL NETWORK AND RELATED ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT Non-Final OA UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY

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