Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: ZECHER, CORDELIA P K

Tech Center 2400 • Art Units: 2100 2114 2115 2122 2123 2124 2125 2126 2128 2132

This examiner grants 49% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

48.7%
Allow Rate
-9.3% vs TC avg
797
Total Applications
+26.1%
Interview Lift
1390
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 524 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

2.8%
§101 Eligibility
6.5%
§102 Novelty
83.3%
§103 Obviousness
3.5%
§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
17818888 MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR SWEEP EFFICIENCY QUANTIFICATION Non-Final OA SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
17294746 VERIFICATION OF CLASSIFICATION DECISIONS IN CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS Final Rejection Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
18037462 ESTIMATION DEVICE, ESTIMATION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
17617393 FRAUD DETECTION DEVICE, FRAUD DETECTION METHOD, AND FRAUD DETECTION PROGRAM Final Rejection NEC Corporation
17483911 SUPPORT SYSTEM AND SUPPORT METHOD SUPPORTING SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION Final Rejection Hitachi, Ltd.
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
17805456 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD Non-Final OA Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
18636031 USING AN ILLUSTRATION TO SHOW THE PASSING OF TIME Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
17744770 CONTROL DEVICE, MOBILE MEDICAL IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM Final Rejection FUJIFILM CORPORATION
18583422 Instances For Built-In Self Testing Non-Final OA Google LLC
18425690 MEDIA PLATFORM WITH GENERATIVE ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE FOR SOLVING DIAGNOSTIC ISSUES Non-Final OA Google LLC
17798046 SEARCHING FOR NORMALIZATION-ACTIVATION LAYER ARCHITECTURES Final Rejection Google LLC
18354174 USING INTERNAL OPERATION FILES HAVING KNOWN PATTERNS ACROSS MULTIPLE DEVICES Non-Final OA Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
17355767 RUN-LENGTH ENCODING AND DECODING FOR A WAVEFORM Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
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
18444502 INPUT/OUTPUT (I/O) COMPONENT TESTING Non-Final OA Micron Technology, Inc.
18618273 REGRESSION MITIGATION USING MULTIPLE STORED PROCEDURES Non-Final OA Snowflake Inc.
17523409 TRANSITION TO AN ORGANIZATION DIRECTORY Final Rejection Dropbox, Inc.
18695397 Method and Device for Sequence Monitoring of Multiple Threads Final Rejection Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
18501646 Immutable and Tamper-Resistant Event Data Non-Final OA ABB Schweiz AG
17551789 EQUIPMENT FAULT DETECTION, DIAGNOSTICS AND DISAGGREGATION SYSTEM Non-Final OA Honeywell International Inc.
17383860 SUPERLOSS: A GENERIC LOSS FOR ROBUST CURRICULUM LEARNING Non-Final OA NAVER CORPORATION
18791491 MACHINE LEARNING-DRIVEN DATA INTEGRATION FOR DATA SPACES AND DIGITAL TWINS Final Rejection NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH
17734129 KEYWORD BASED OPEN INFORMATION EXTRACTION FOR FACT-RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE GRAPH CREATION AND LINK PREDICTION Final Rejection NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH
18042863 BATTERY LIFE PREDICTIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS Final Rejection Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
19046083 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TIME SERIES DATA FORMAT CONVERSION AND ANALYSIS Non-Final OA anumana, Inc.

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