Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: VICARY, KEITH E

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2100 2182 2183 2199

This examiner grants 58% of resolved cases

Analysis

Keith E. Vicary is an examiner in Tech Center 2100 with 698 resolved cases. His allowance rate of 57.7 percent reflects a balanced approach to examination in Art Unit 2100. The median days to allowance is 1423, indicating that successful applications often face a longer prosecution timeline before a grant is issued. This duration suggests that multiple rounds of prosecution may be common.

The interview lift for this examiner is a substantial 40.3 percent. This high lift suggests that direct engagement is exceptionally effective at moving cases toward allowance. Given the 57.7 percent base allowance rate, an interview can significantly improve the probability of success. For the 698 resolved cases on record, practitioners should prioritize interviews as a primary strategy to navigate the 1423-day median path to allowance. The 40.3 percent lift is a key indicator of interview effectiveness.

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

Performance Statistics

57.7%
Allow Rate
+2.7% vs TC avg
746
Total Applications
+40.3%
Interview Lift
1423
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 698 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

10.1%
§101 Eligibility
11.4%
§102 Novelty
34.6%
§103 Obviousness
37.2%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
19094393 MASKING/ZEROING PREDICATION IN PROCESSOR CIRCUITS Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18660925 Multi-Instruction Packing In Single Instruction Slot Non-Final OA Google LLC
19203556 BASE PLUS OFFSET ADDRESSING FOR LOAD/STORE MESSAGES Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18661103 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SPECULATIVE EXECUTION SIDE CHANNEL MITIGATION Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18478882 MEMORY SAFETY USING TAG CHECKING INSTRUCTIONS AND ISLANDS OF TAGS IN LINE WITH BUCKETED DATA Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18193232 INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITE AND/OR READ OF CONTROL AND/OR STATUS REGISTERS Final Rejection INTEL CORPORATION
17957969 DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM TO DETERMINE A MODE OF PROCESSOR OPERATION BASED ON PAGE TABLE METADATA Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17712118 SYNCHRONOUS MICROTHREADING Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17708933 CONTROL REGISTER SET TO FACILITATE PROCESSOR EVENT BASED SAMPLING Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17484840 CIRCUITRY AND METHODS FOR ACCELERATING STREAMING DATA-TRANSFORMATION OPERATIONS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17463390 BFLOAT16 CLASSIFICATION AND MANIPULATION INSTRUCTIONS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18326202 DEVICE AND METHOD OF DETECTING STRIDE ACCESS BASED ON PREDICTED ADDRESS FOR HARDWARE PREFETCH USED FOR CACHE MEMORY Final Rejection Fujitsu Limited
19210296 BRANCH PREDICTION USING SPECULATIVE INDEXING AND INTRALINE COUNT Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
18680032 PHYSICAL REGISTER DEALLOCATION IN A PROCESSING SYSTEM Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18096115 Sorting Method and Control for Partially Ordered Data Arrays in Embedded Systems Non-Final OA SK hynix Inc.
19206182 SECURING REGISTERS ACROSS SECURITY ZONES Non-Final OA TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
19049097 PIPELINE PROTECTION FOR CPUS WITH SAVE AND RESTORE OF INTERMEDIATE RESULTS Non-Final OA TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
18958042 PROCESSOR WITH INSTRUCTION CONCATENATION Non-Final OA TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
16422754 VECTOR FLOATING-POINT SCALE Final Rejection TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
18926133 GATHER ACCELERATED ADDRESS SPACE Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18789957 PROCESSING DATA USING ACCELERATORS IN A SYSTEM ON A CHIP Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
19142401 PROCESSOR WITH DELAYED INSTRUCTION PIPELINE FLUSH Non-Final OA Rivos Inc.
18619392 WAVE LEVEL MATRIX MULTIPLY INSTRUCTIONS Non-Final OA Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18390821 ACCUMULATION APERTURES Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
19053672 FETCH QUEUE POPULATION Final Rejection Arm Limited
18731006 UNALIGNED LOAD AND STORE IN A CORE Non-Final OA XILINX, INC.
18714604 DECODING METHOD, PROCESSOR, CHIP, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Final Rejection Hygon Information Technology Co., Ltd.

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