Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Examiner: ZHANG, LESHUI

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2614 2654 2695

This examiner grants 78% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

77.7%
Allow Rate
+15.7% vs TC avg
980
Total Applications
+35.5%
Interview Lift
1012
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 937 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

1.0%
§101 Eligibility
5.7%
§102 Novelty
83.0%
§103 Obviousness
8.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18587604 POSITION DETECTION METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Final Rejection SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
18008445 QUANTIZATION AND ENTROPY CODING OF PARAMETERS FOR A LOW LATENCY AUDIO CODEC Non-Final OA Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
18253716 Audio Recognition Method and Audio Recognition Apparatus Non-Final OA Honor Device Co., Ltd.
18712467 VOICE SEPARATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
18620361 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPATIAL AUDIO RENDERING, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Final Rejection BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18400081 AUDIO SIGNAL RENDERING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE Final Rejection BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
18672139 Spatial Audio Parameter Merging Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
18393966 AUDIO CANCELLATION Final Rejection Nokia Technologies Oy
18789474 SYSTEM, METHOD AND SMART TERMINAL FOR MULTI-USER CROSS-LANGUAGE INTERACTION BASED ON LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS Non-Final OA SOLOS TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) LIMITED
18614555 OWN VOICE AUDIO PROCESSING FOR HEARING LOSS Non-Final OA Apple Inc.
18760131 INJECTING SHORT-TERM SPECTRO-TEMPORAL KNOWLEDGE INTO AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION MODELS Non-Final OA International Business Machines Corporation
18108431 ENCODING METHOD AND ENCODING DEVICE USING COMPLEX SIGNAL AND DECODING METHOD AND DECODING DEVICE USING COMPLEX SIGNAL Non-Final OA Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
17921858 METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING MULTI-CHANNEL AUDIO IN A DYNAMIC RANGE REDUCED DOMAIN Non-Final OA Dolby International AB
18750477 Systems And Methods For Generative Language Model Database System Communication Channel Integration Non-Final OA Salesforce, Inc.
18736332 GENERATIVE AI WITH LOGICAL REASONING Non-Final OA NVIDIA CORPORATION
18634828 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRAINING A LANGUAGE MODEL Non-Final OA SHOPEE IP SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED
18769826 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING SELECTIVE HEARING Non-Final OA Technische Universitaet Ilmenau
18062815 AUDIO DEVICE WITH AUDIO QUALITY DETECTION AND RELATED METHODS Final Rejection GN Audio A/S
18665952 CEILING MOUNTABLE SPEAKER ENCLOSURE Final Rejection Atlas Sound LP
18656113 COMPUTING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING CUSTOMER INQUIRIES USING SPEECH-TO-TEXT, LANGUAGE MODEL ANALYSIS, AND TEXT-TO-SPEECH SERVICES Final Rejection CDW LLC
18425025 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOUND MONITORING OVER A NETWORK Final Rejection ST Fam Tech, LLC

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