Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: VILLANUEVA, MARKUS ANTHONY

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2151 2182

This examiner grants 52% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

52.5%
Allow Rate
-2.5% vs TC avg
81
Total Applications
+50.0%
Interview Lift
1351
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 40 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

24.3%
§101 Eligibility
11.7%
§102 Novelty
39.5%
§103 Obviousness
24.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17183523 APPARATUS WITH NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION METHOD Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
17714327 TECHNIQUE FOR BIT UP-CONVERSION WITH SIGN EXTENSION Final Rejection TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
17566450 ADDER WITH FIRST AND SECOND ADDER CIRCUITS FOR NON-POWER OF TWO INPUT WIDTH Non-Final OA TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
17351044 Systems and Methods for Numerical Precision in Digital Multiplier Circuitry Non-Final OA Groq, Inc.
17732537 ARITHMETIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND RECORDING MERDIUM FOR PERFORMING FOUR ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS ON FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS Non-Final OA FUJIFILM Corporation
17698068 MULTIPLIER Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
17505426 REDUCTION OPERATION WITH RETENTION IN NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSOR Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
17836523 TWO-STAGE DECOMPRESSION PIPELINE FOR NON-UNIFORM QUANTIZED NEURAL NETWORK INFERENCE ON RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17561803 PROCESSING IN FLOATING POINT FUSED MULTIPLY-ADD OPERATIONS Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17643652 PEAK SELF-NORMALIZATION GAIN CONTROL BASED ON HOPF RESONATORS CASCADE SIGNAL SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION Final Rejection Intel Corporation
17807273 DEEP LEARNING ACCELERATION WITH MIXED PRECISION Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
17392756 PARALLEL MATRIX OPERATIONS IN A RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTE FABRIC Final Rejection Micron Technology, Inc.
17741509 FLOATING-POINT COMPUTATION APPARATUS AND METHOD USING COMPUTING-IN-MEMORY Non-Final OA Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
17847901 FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM (FFT) BUTTERFLY CIRCUIT FOR A DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE OVERSAMPLED CHANNELIZER Non-Final OA BAE SYSTEMS Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
17408707 MAGNETIC RECORDING ARRAY, PRODUCT-SUM CALCULATOR, AND NEUROMORPHIC DEVICE Non-Final OA TDK CORPORATION
17420915 PRODUCT-SUM OPERATION DEVICE, LOGICAL OPERATION DEVICE, NEUROMORPHIC DEVICE, AND PRODUCT-SUM OPERATION METHOD Final Rejection TDK CORPORATION
17643697 SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND ARITHMETIC LOGIC OPERATION SYSTEM Non-Final OA Kioxia Corporation
17702550 PERFORMING COMPARISON OPERATIONS USING EXTENDED EXPONENT RANGE FLOATING POINT VALUES Non-Final OA Imagination Technologies Limited
17761592 VARIABLE OPTIMIZATION APPARATUS, VARIABLE OPTIMIZATION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
17898201 HARDWARE ACCELERATOR FOR FLOATING-POINT OPERATIONS Non-Final OA Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
17745322 SHARED COLUMN ADCS FOR IN-MEMORY-COMPUTING MACROS Non-Final OA The Trustees of Princeton University
17619795 COMPUTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VECTOR INNER PRODUCT, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIP Final Rejection Anhui Cambricon Information Technology Co., Ltd.
17737073 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING VARIABLE-PRECISION MATRIX MULTIPLICATION USING LOW-PRECISION DIGIT MATRIX MULTIPLIER Final Rejection Xcelerium Inc
17563493 PROGRAMMABLE ANALOG SIGNAL PROCESSING ARRAY FOR TIME-DISCRETE PROCESSING OF ANALOG SIGNALS Final Rejection IHP GmbH - Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics / Leibniz-Institut fur Innovative Mikro

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