Prosecution Insights
Last updated: April 19, 2026

Examiner: ZECHER, CORDELIA P K

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2100 2114 2115 2123 2124 2125 2126 2128 2132 2135

This examiner grants 50% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

49.7%
Allow Rate
-8.3% vs TC avg
796
Total Applications
+25.8%
Interview Lift
1338
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 509 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

19.0%
§101 Eligibility
13.1%
§102 Novelty
46.8%
§103 Obviousness
16.0%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17083827 NEUROMORPHIC DEVICE AND METHOD Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
18168027 MULTI-STAGE TRAINING OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Non-Final OA X Development LLC
17728398 ENSEMBLE MACHINE LEARNING WITH RESERVOIR NEURAL NETWORKS Non-Final OA X Development LLC
17647935 DESIGNING NANOFLUIDS FOR SUBSURFACE APPLICATIONS Final Rejection SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
17618009 FILE PROCESSING DEVICE, FILE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Final Rejection Sony Group Corporation
17642332 SIMULATED ANNEALING SYSTEM, SIMULATED ANNEALING METHOD, AND SIMULATED ANNEALING PROGRAM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
17744770 CONTROL DEVICE, MOBILE MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM Final Rejection FUJIFILM CORPORATION
17703015 ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS USING MAGNETORESISTIVE RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY-BASED STOCHASTIC COMPUTING UNITS Non-Final OA Northwestern University
18505847 INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, METHODS FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18044707 Multi-Window Projection Method and Electronic Device Non-Final OA Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
18636031 USING AN ILLUSTRATION TO SHOW THE PASSING OF TIME Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18318362 Generating an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot that Specializes in a Specific Domain Non-Final OA Google LLC
17798046 SEARCHING FOR NORMALIZATION-ACTIVATION LAYER ARCHITECTURES Final Rejection Google LLC
18617967 GARBAGE COLLECTION AT A STORAGE DEVICE BASED ON INPUT/OUTPUT ACCESS PATTERNS AT THE STORAGE DEVICE Non-Final OA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17933468 MULTIPLEXED GRAPH NEURAL NETWORKS FOR MULTIMODAL FUSION Final Rejection INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
17294746 VERIFICATION OF CLASSIFICATION DECISIONS IN CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
18354174 USING INTERNAL OPERATION FILES HAVING KNOWN PATTERNS ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES Non-Final OA Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
17764114 TECHNOLOGY TO MINIMIZE THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF CACHE CONFLICTS CAUSED BY INCOMPATIBLE LEADING DIMENSIONS IN MATRIX MULTIPLICATION AND CONVOLUTION KERNELS WITHOUT DIMENSION PADDING Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
18167733 METHOD FOR TRAINING A CONDITIONAL NEURAL PROCESS FOR DETERMINING A POSITION OF AN OBJECT FROM IMAGE DATA Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18042863 BATTERY LIFE PREDICTIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
17865106 MODEL TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS Final Rejection Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.
17710585 PERSPECTIVE BASED VEHICLE SHADOW SYSTEM Non-Final OA Amazon Technologies, Inc.
17383860 SUPERLOSS: A GENERIC LOSS FOR ROBUST CURRICULUM LEARNING Non-Final OA NAVER CORPORATION
17544976 COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, COMPUTER, AND LEARNING METHOD USING PERFORMANCE ALLOCATION Final Rejection FUJITSU LIMITED
17352134 REPLICA PROCESSING UNIT FOR BOLTZMANN MACHINE Non-Final OA FUJITSU LIMITED
17734129 KEYWORD BASED OPEN INFORMATION EXTRACTION FOR FACT-RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE GRAPH CREATION AND LINK PREDICTION Final Rejection NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH
18962503 DIRECTED GRAPH LAYOUT METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd.
18131820 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELF-TRAINING A COMMUNICATION DOCUMENT PARSER Non-Final OA RELATIVITY ODA LLC
19046083 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TIME SERIES DATA FORMAT CONVERSION AND ANALYSIS Non-Final OA anumana, Inc.
17442347 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Final Rejection NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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