Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: VICARY, KEITH E

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2100 2182 2183 2199

This examiner grants 58% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

57.7%
Allow Rate
+2.7% vs TC avg
740
Total Applications
+41.0%
Interview Lift
1426
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 692 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

9.8%
§101 Eligibility
11.4%
§102 Novelty
34.6%
§103 Obviousness
37.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18660925 Multi-Instruction Packing In Single Instruction Slot Final Rejection Google LLC
18550566 System and Method for Power and Latency Reduction by Inserting Instruction Hints in Processing Thread Execution Code in a Multithreaded Architecture Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
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 Non-Final OA 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
17530040 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MINIMALLY INTRUSIVE INSTRUCTION POINTER-AWARE PROCESSING RESOURCE ACTIVITY PROFILING Non-Final OA 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
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
19016487 EXIT HISTORY BASED BRANCH PREDICTION Non-Final OA TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
17876706 STORING A RESULT OF A FIRST INSTRUCTION OF AM EXECUTE PACKET IN A HOLDING REGISTER PRIOR TO COMPLETION OF A SECOND INSTRUCTION OF THE EXECUTE PACKET Non-Final OA TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
16422754 VECTOR FLOATING-POINT SCALE Final Rejection TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
18326202 DEVICE AND METHOD OF DETECTING STRIDE ACCESS BASED ON PREDICTED ADDRESS FOR HARDWARE PREFETCH USED FOR CACHE MEMORY Final Rejection Fujitsu Limited
18926133 GATHER ACCELERATED ADDRESS SPACE Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18789957 PROCESSING DATA USING ACCELERATORS IN A SYSTEM ON A CHIP Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18733046 EVENT TRACING Non-Final OA SiFive, Inc.
18757922 Instruction Deltas For Processing-In-Memory Divergence Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18754873 DISPATCH FOR A CONFIGURABLE DATA-FLOW COMPUTE ARRAY AND DATA-PARALLEL COMPUTE UNITS Non-Final OA ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES, INC.
18619392 WAVE LEVEL MATRIX MULTIPLY INSTRUCTIONS Non-Final OA Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18390821 ACCUMULATION APERTURES Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18680032 PHYSICAL REGISTER DEALLOCATION IN A PROCESSING SYSTEM Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
19203556 BASE PLUS OFFSET ADDRESSING FOR LOAD/STORE MESSAGES Non-Final OA Neslako Innovation Technology Limited
18562398 METHOD, MICROARCHITECTURE AND COMPUTING APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND COMPUTATION ON DISTRIBUTIONS OF DATA REPRESENTING DISTRIBUTIONS THAT ARE UNCERTAINTY REPRESENTATIONS Non-Final OA CAMBRIDGE ENTERPRISE LIMITED
18812889 ENERGY-EFFICIENT INDIRECT PREFETCHER Non-Final OA Ampere Computing LLC
18731006 UNALIGNED LOAD AND STORE IN A CORE Non-Final OA XILINX, INC.

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