Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 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
506
Total Applications
+18.4%
Interview Lift
1052
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 479 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

3.6%
§101 Eligibility
1.3%
§102 Novelty
86.0%
§103 Obviousness
6.6%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
17925571 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD Final Rejection SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18126538 POINT CLOUD ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD, ENCODER, DECODER AND CODEC SYSTEM Non-Final OA GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
18234446 NFT INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM AND NFT INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD Non-Final OA Samsung Display Co., LTD.
18176668 METHOD AND SYSTEM OF GENERATING CUSTOMIZED IMAGES Non-Final OA Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
18734811 DYNAMIC ATTRIBUTE DATA STRUCTURE FOR EFFICIENT ANIMATION DATA STORAGE Non-Final OA TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
18766036 METHOD FOR GENERATING A GENERIC 3D REPRESENTATION OF A SURROUNDINGS OF A VEHICLE Non-Final OA Robert Bosch GmbH
18771451 RUNTIME MOTION ADAPTATION FOR PRECISE CHARACTER LOCOMOTION Non-Final OA ETH Zürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
18365471 COMPUTER AIDED AUTOMATED SHAPE ADJUSTMENT OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRIES Final Rejection Autodesk, Inc.
18433275 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING DIFFRACTION PARAMETER OF PHOTOMASK Non-Final OA TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
18655580 REAL-TIME EXTRACTION OF 3D ANIMATION INFORMATION FROM PREDICTED SPEECH Non-Final OA Charter Communications Operating, LLC
18710898 ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FOR ORTHODONTIC TREATMENTS Final Rejection ORTHODONTIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT S.L.
18640524 SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY SIGNALS Final Rejection Oticon A/S
18657417 Systems, Methods and Devices for Augmented Reality Assisted Surgery Non-Final OA Materialise N.V.
18653923 METHODS FOR CORRECTING AND/OR MITIGATING TISSUE PENETRATION IN ANATOMICAL SIMULATION MODELS FOR COMPUTER ANIMATION Non-Final OA DIGITAL DOMAIN VIRTUAL HUMAN (US), INC.
18705916 METHOD FOR CONFIGURING OBJECT-BASED MULTIMEDIA FOR SHORT-FORM CONTENT AND DEVICE USING SAME Final Rejection INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION GROUP OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY
18605872 METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR GENERATING IMAGE Non-Final OA EVOLUTIVE LABS CO., LTD.

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