Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: WU, NICHOLAS S

Tech Center 2100 • Art Units: 2129 2148 2182

This examiner grants 47% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

47.4%
Allow Rate
-7.6% vs TC avg
82
Total Applications
+43.1%
Interview Lift
1381
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 38 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

26.7%
§101 Eligibility
3.1%
§102 Novelty
52.6%
§103 Obviousness
17.4%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18319096 HYPERGRAPH-BASED COLLABORATIVE FILTERING RECOMMENDATIONS Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
17916362 INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM Final Rejection SONY GROUP CORPORATION
17759212 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Final Rejection SONY GROUP CORPORATION
17790574 POLICY LEARNING METHOD, POLICY LEARNING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
17422282 System for Machine Learning-Based Acceleration of a Topology Optimization Process Non-Final OA Georgia Tech Research Corporation
18140317 AUTOMATICALLY PREDICTING SHIPPER BEHAVIOR USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
17324192 REAL-TIME IN-VEHICLE MODELING AND SIMULATION UPDATES Final Rejection Volvo Car Corporation
18446170 METHODS AND PROCESSORS FOR TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK Non-Final OA HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
18186715 MULTIVARIATE TIME-SERIES SEGMENTATION USING SPARSE GRAPH RECOVERY ALGORITHMS Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18199474 METHOD FOR GENERATING QUANTUM STATE PREPARATION CIRCUIT, QUANTUM STATE PREPARATION METHOD, AND QUANTUM DEVICE Non-Final OA TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
17899534 OPTIMAL CONSTRAINED MULTIWAY SPLIT CLASSIFICATION TREE Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17231289 KNOWLEDGE GRAPH COMPRESSION Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
17112431 ANNOTATION DATA COLLECTION TO REDUCE MACHINE MODEL UNCERTAINTY Final Rejection International Business Machines Corporation
18023342 METHOD FOR A STATE ENGINEERING FOR A REINFORCEMENT LEARNING SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND REINFORCEMENT LEARNING SYSTEM Non-Final OA SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
17420357 TRAINING TRAINABLE MODULES USING LEARNING DATA, THE LABELS OF WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO NOISE Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
17408979 SEMANTIC COMPRESSION IN A SENSOR SYSTEM Non-Final OA Cisco Technology, Inc.
17249584 KNOWLEDGE-BASED MANAGEMENT OF RECOGNITION MODELS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS Final Rejection Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.
17975664 FEDERATED LEARNING SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING INDIVIDUAL DATA CUSTOMIZED FEDERATED LEARNING, METHOD FOR FEDERATED LEARNING, AND CLIENT ARATUS FOR PERFORMING SAME Final Rejection Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
17376664 INTERACTIVE AND ITERATIVE TRAINING OF A CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM FOR CLASSIFYING ANOMALIES IN IMAGING DATASETS Non-Final OA Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
18334718 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EEG MOTOR IMAGERY CLASSIFICATION Non-Final OA Tata Consultancy Services Limited
17099634 MULTI OBJECT TRACKING USING MEMORY ATTENTION Final Rejection Waymo LLC
18254474 FEDERATED LEARNING PARTICIPANT SELECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA ZTE CORPORATION
18166696 DIRECTIONAL DRIVERS OF DEEP LEARNING MODELS BASED ON MODEL GRADIENTS Non-Final OA THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
18320531 MACHINE LEARNING FOR SOLVING QUANTUM ANNEALING HARDWARE MINOR EMBEDDING PROBLEMS Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
17857222 METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETECTING MODEL DRIFT Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18985972 APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR A NO-CODE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE TO DEFINE A SYSTEM TO COLLECT UNSTRUCTURED DATA USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) Final Rejection NLX Inc.
17137773 SEMICONDUCTOR DESIGN OPTIMIZATION USING AT LEAST ONE NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
17231802 NETWORK DEVICE TYPE CLASSIFICATION Final Rejection Avast Software s.r.o.
18140210 Feature Recommendations for Machine Learning Models Using Trained Feature Prediction Model Non-Final OA Maplebear Inc. (dba Instacart)

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