Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: VICARY, KEITH E

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2182 2183

This examiner grants 58% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

57.5%
Allow Rate
+2.5% vs TC avg
724
Total Applications
+41.2%
Interview Lift
1358
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 683 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

8.7%
§101 Eligibility
12.0%
§102 Novelty
34.0%
§103 Obviousness
37.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18914395 PADDING IN A STREAM OF MATRIX ELEMENTS Final Rejection TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
18344091 BINARY CONVOLUTION INSTRUCTIONS FOR BINARY NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTATIONS Final Rejection TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
16422754 VECTOR FLOATING-POINT SCALE Non-Final OA TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
18753513 TECHNIQUE FOR GENERATING PREDICTIONS OF A TARGET ADDRESS OF BRANCH INSTRUCTIONS Final Rejection Arm Limited
18187465 MANAGING INPUT REGISTERS FOR A COMPUTE ENGINE OF A MATRIX MATH ASSIST ACCELERATOR Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18661103 APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR SPECULATIVE EXECUTION SIDE CHANNEL MITIGATION Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18145744 ACCELERATING KECCAK ALGORITHMS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17530040 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MINIMALLY INTRUSIVE INSTRUCTION POINTER-AWARE PROCESSING RESOURCE ACTIVITY PROFILING Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17463390 BFLOAT16 CLASSIFICATION AND MANIPULATION INSTRUCTIONS Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
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
17360986 ULTRA-LOW-POWER AND LOW-AREA SOLUTION OF BINARY MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE SYSTEM AND METHOD Non-Final OA STMicroelectronics International N.V.
18326202 DEVICE AND METHOD OF DETECTING STRIDE ACCESS BASED ON PREDICTED ADDRESS FOR HARDWARE PREFETCH USED FOR CACHE MEMORY Non-Final OA Fujitsu Limited
18141466 Vector Gather with a Narrow Datapath Final Rejection SiFive, Inc.
18757922 Instruction Deltas For Processing-In-Memory Divergence Non-Final OA Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18619392 WAVE LEVEL MATRIX MULTIPLY INSTRUCTIONS Final Rejection Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18390821 ACCUMULATION APERTURES Non-Final OA Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18759786 INSTRUCTION FETCH GROUP EXIT POINT PREDICTION USING OFFSET COUNTERS Non-Final OA Tenstorrent USA, Inc.
17666829 OPERATION PROCESSING APPARATUS Non-Final OA Inter-University Research Institute Corporation Research Organization of Information and Systems
18671202 VECTOR COMPUTATION APPARATUS HAVING A REGISTER UNIT, THREAD MANAGEMENT CIRCUITRY, AND COMPUTATION CIRCUITRY Final Rejection Alibaba Innovation Private Limited
18684962 MULTI-LEVEL HYBRID ALGORITHM FILTERING-TYPE BRANCH PREDICTION METHOD AND PREDICTION SYSTEM Final Rejection Suzhou Ricore IC Technologies Ltd.
18550566 System and Method for Power and Latency Reduction by Inserting Instruction Hints in Processing Thread Execution Code in a Multithreaded Architecture Non-Final OA Think Silicon Research and Technology Single Member S.A.

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