Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: VILLANUEVA, MARKUS ANTHONY

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2151 2182

This examiner grants 52% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

52.3%
Allow Rate
-2.7% vs TC avg
82
Total Applications
+39.4%
Interview Lift
1409
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 44 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

9.8%
§101 Eligibility
8.7%
§102 Novelty
70.5%
§103 Obviousness
10.4%
§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
17698068 MULTIPLIER Final Rejection HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
17582939 STOCHASTIC ROUNDING FOR NEURAL PROCESSOR CIRCUIT Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
17732537 ARITHMETIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND RECORDING MERDIUM FOR PERFORMING FOUR ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS ON FLOATING-POINT NUMBERS Non-Final OA FUJIFILM Corporation
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
17358868 AREA AND ENERGY EFFICIENT MULTI-PRECISION MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE UNIT-BASED PROCESSOR Non-Final OA 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
17643697 SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND ARITHMETIC LOGIC OPERATION SYSTEM Non-Final OA Kioxia Corporation
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
17847901 FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM (FFT) BUTTERFLY CIRCUIT FOR A DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE OVERSAMPLED CHANNELIZER Non-Final OA BAE SYSTEMS Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
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
17761290 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD OF MANUFACTURE Non-Final OA Pragmatic Semiconductor Limited
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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