Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 17, 2026

Examiner: WHEATON, BRADFORD F

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2193 2197

This examiner grants 62% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

61.5%
Allow Rate
+6.5% vs TC avg
416
Total Applications
+11.2%
Interview Lift
1427
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 390 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

18.3%
§101 Eligibility
2.1%
§102 Novelty
68.6%
§103 Obviousness
8.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18787926 TECHNIQUES FOR DISPLAYING WARNINGS ABOUT POTENTIALLY PROBLEMATIC SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18759021 REAL-TIME VERSION ROLLBACK Non-Final OA GOOGLE LLC
18794136 COMPLEX, DYNAMIC ROUTING FOR NESTED RUNTIME MICRO FRONT ENDS Non-Final OA Capital One Services, LLC
18293110 CONFIGURING A NETWORK FUNCTION SOFTWARE VERSION Non-Final OA Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
18307437 Multi-Platform Compiling Non-Final OA Oracle International Corporation
18615741 RETRIEVAL-AUGMENTED DIGITAL WORKFLOW GENERATION Final Rejection ServiceNow, Inc.
18510210 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO PROVIDE COMPILER OPTIONS TO PERFORM TENSOR OPERATIONS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18198244 CONTROL FLOW INTEGRITY MONITORING FOR APPLICATIONS RUNNING ON PLATFORMS Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
18790163 METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR MERGING PULL REQUEST Non-Final OA DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
18582715 ENERGY CONSUMPTION AWARE CREATION OF SOFTWARE CODE Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18398682 USING CROSS-COMPILATION TO DETERMINE TRANSLATION ACCURACY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GENERATED CODE Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17953688 AUTOMATION POWERED ENDPOINT LEGACY DUPLICITY Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
16720969 SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR RECONSTITUTING AN OBJECT IN A RUNTIME ENVIRONMENT USING HEAP MEMORY Final Rejection CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
18316290 MOBILE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM EMBEDDED CONTENT UNLOCKING AND NEW CONTENT INSTALLATION Final Rejection Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
18538406 TRACING EVENTS FOR A REAL-TIME ROBOTICS CONTROL SYSTEM Final Rejection Intrinsic Innovation LLC

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