Prosecution Insights
Last updated: August 18, 2026

Examiner: ZHAI, KYLE

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2611 2612 2628 2677 2679

This examiner grants 74% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

74.5%
Allow Rate
+12.5% vs TC avg
514
Total Applications
+18.8%
Interview Lift
1049
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 487 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

12.3%
§101 Eligibility
7.2%
§102 Novelty
62.4%
§103 Obviousness
13.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18677779 SMOOTH VIDEO/IMAGE SIGNAL COMPRESSION Final Rejection Apple Inc.
17925571 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD Final Rejection SONY GROUP CORPORATION
19012014 Orthopedic Treatment Device Co-Display Systems and Methods Non-Final OA Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC
18234446 NFT INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM AND NFT INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD Non-Final OA Samsung Display Co., LTD.
18786190 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING VERTEX AMBIENT OCCLUSION VALUE, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR APPLYING VERTEX AMBIENT OCCLUSION VALUE, AND DEVICE Non-Final OA Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
18734811 DYNAMIC ATTRIBUTE DATA STRUCTURE FOR EFFICIENT ANIMATION DATA STORAGE Final Rejection TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
19081323 Localization Failure Handling On Artificial Reality Systems Non-Final OA Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
18963918 MONITORING SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A PATIENT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE MONITORING SYSTEM Non-Final OA Siemens Healthineers AG
18896450 SYSTEMS FOR THE DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF PROVISIONAL AND PERMANENT CROWNS Non-Final OA ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.
18778292 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING INTELLIGENT EMBODIED INTERACTIVE AGENTS WITH SPATIAL UNDERSTANDING Non-Final OA JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
18880073 VIRTUAL OBJECT GENERATION DEVICE Non-Final OA NTT DOCOMO, INC.
18176668 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GENERATING CUSTOMIZED IMAGES Final Rejection Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18803237 RECOGNITION SYSTEM, RECOGNITION DEVICE, RECOGNITION METHOD, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT Non-Final OA DENSO CORPORATION
18433275 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING DIFFRACTION PARAMETER OF PHOTOMASK Final Rejection TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
19011300 MEMORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
18990059 EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF OPACITY MICRO-MAPS Non-Final OA Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
18215068 VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) ENVIRONMENT BASED ON AN INDUSTRIAL FLOOR Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18923912 DEVICES AND METHODS FOR ICON OVERLAY Non-Final OA Synaptics Incorporated
18605872 METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR GENERATING IMAGE Final Rejection EVOLUTIVE LABS CO., LTD.

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