Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: VAUGHN, RYAN C

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2125

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

61.7%
Allow Rate
+6.7% vs TC avg
280
Total Applications
+19.4%
Interview Lift
1388
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 235 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

23.9%
§101 Eligibility
7.6%
§102 Novelty
40.1%
§103 Obviousness
21.9%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17993740 METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18343836 System and method for training an artificial intelligent system based on entity rules, regulation rules, and core values Non-Final OA Bank of America Corporation
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
17198624 IDENTIFYING TRENDS USING EMBEDDING DRIFT OVER TIME Final Rejection Capital One Services, LLC
19301717 Logic Gate Networks Generated Using Differentiable Logic Gate Models Final Rejection Universität Konstanz
18271686 DEVICE, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR WEIGHTED KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER Non-Final OA HITACHI, LTD.
17977344 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING GROUND STATE ENERGY OF QUANTUM SYSTEM Non-Final OA TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
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
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
18227758 APPROXIMATE CONFUSION MATRIX FOR MULTI-LABEL CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA Oracle International 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 Final Rejection YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
17852450 Running Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks in Hardware Non-Final OA Imagination Technologies Limited
17595731 SPIKING NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEM, LEARNING PROCESSING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Final Rejection THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
18336538 OPTIMIZED LATENT MISSING FEATURE DETECTION FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA Optum, Inc.
17971082 AUTOMATED DATA ARCHIVAL FRAMEWORK USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18247348 LEARNING METHOD, ESTIMATION METHOD, LEARNING APPARATUS, ESTIMATION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
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
17678194 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REALIZING QUANTUM OPERATION Final Rejection Tsinghua University
18546847 DATA GENERATION DEVICE, DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA OMRON CORPORATION
17714835 DATA MODELING SYSTEMS AND METHODS Final Rejection DataRobot, Inc.
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
17097926 INFERENCE SYSTEM, INFERENCE DEVICE, AND INFERENCE METHOD Non-Final OA AXELL CORPORATION
17783961 CONSTRUCTING AND OPERATING AN ARTIFICIAL RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA INAIT SA
17236710 Dashboard Usage Tracking and Generation of Dashboard Recommendations Final Rejection MONDAY.COM LIMITED

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