Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: WECHSELBERGER, ALFRED H.

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2123 2129 2146 2148 2187

This examiner grants 58% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

57.7%
Allow Rate
+2.7% vs TC avg
255
Total Applications
+35.3%
Interview Lift
1322
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 213 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

12.3%
§101 Eligibility
0.5%
§102 Novelty
84.7%
§103 Obviousness
2.3%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17643993 RESERVOIR SIMULATION BASED ON CAPACITANCE-RESISTANCE MODELING FOR HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION Non-Final OA Saudi Arabian Oil Company
17520475 CONSTRUCTING DERIVATIVE PROFILES FROM DISCRETE PRESSURE DATA OF TRANSIENT WELL TESTS Non-Final OA Saudi Arabian Oil Company
17297335 HYDRAULIC FRACTURING JOB PLAN REAL-TIME REVISIONS UTILIZING DETECTED RESPONSE FEATURE DATA Non-Final OA Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
17310991 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPLYING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES TO RESERVOIR FLUID GEODYNAMICS Non-Final OA Schlumberger Technology Corporation
19055565 METHOD, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCT FOR PATTERN DESIGN IN FILAMENT WINDING Non-Final OA Hefei University of Technology
17557005 METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC DESIGN CONCEPT DEFINITION AND ARCHETYPE SELECTION FOR LARGE SETS OF DESIGNS RESPECTING MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION SPACES Non-Final OA Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
18595179 CUSTOMIZABLE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING OF COLUMN PLACEMENT IN STRUCTURAL DESIGN Non-Final OA AUTODESK, INC.
17958145 REPOSITIONING COOLING CHANNELS IN COOLING MOLDS Non-Final OA Autodesk, Inc.
18150629 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT WITH CODE CONTENT OPTIMIZATION AND SERVICING Non-Final OA Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
17964773 MOMENTUM CONSERVATION IN PHYSICS ENGINES Non-Final OA Nvidia Corporation
17446347 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Non-Final OA Preferred Networks, Inc.
17818338 SIMULATION METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE Final Rejection Beijing Tusen Zhitu Technology Co., Ltd.
18658500 VEHICLE IMPACT ANALYSIS WITH TWO-POINT-CONTACT CURVES Final Rejection DASSAULT SYSTEMES DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
17963814 FOUNDATION MODEL BASED FLUID SIMULATIONS Non-Final OA DEEP FOREST SCIENCES, INC.
17694830 SMART TIME SERIES AND MACHINE LEARNING END-TO-END (E2E) MODEL DEVELOPMENT ENHANCEMENT AND ANALYTIC SOFTWARE Non-Final OA KuantSol Inc.
16337447 EVENT PREDICTION DEVICE AND EVENT PREDICTION METHOD Non-Final OA Singular Perturbations Inc.
17612211 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAST SOLUTION OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, BASED ON AN EIGENPERMITTIVITY MODAL APPROACH Final Rejection B.G. NEGEV TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS LTD.,ATBEN-GURION UNIVERSITY
17603746 EVALUATION AND/OR ADAPTATION OF INDUSTRIAL AND/OR TECHNICAL PROCESS MODELS Non-Final OA Calejo Industrial Intelligence AB
17251124 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SIMULATOR USING NETWORK PLATFORM Final Rejection MORAI

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