Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Khmrg (Nvidia)

Technology areas: Computing & Software • Communications

60 pending office actions • 5 clients • 55 examiners • 46 art units • 0 of 60 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

KHMRG (NVIDIA) focuses on Computing & Software and has 63 pending office actions from 25781 career applications. The profile reflects a substantial application history together with an active pending workload.

The resolved allowance rate is 94.77%, while the average is 3.85 office actions per allowance. Practitioners can use the rate to evaluate resolved outcomes and the action average to understand the prosecution exchanges connected with allowance.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=25781 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

94.8%
Allowance Rate
n=25781
+0.62σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=25781
3.8
OAs to Allowance
n=19582
+0.16σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=19582
1130 days
Time to Allowance
n=19582
+2.0pp
Interview Lift
n=25781
32.6%
RCE Rate
n=25781
3.7%
Appeal Rate
n=25781

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

88.5%
§101 Overcome
n=3350
89.6%
§102 Overcome
n=6737
90.0%
§103 Overcome
n=11965
89.5%
§112 Overcome
n=5326

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H04L, H04W
Top CPC Subclasses
47%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=25781
12
Practitioners
n=25781
2148.4
Apps / Practitioner
n=25781

Portfolio Summary

60
Total Pending OAs
34
Non-Final OAs
24
Final Rejections
2
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

8
Overdue
1
Due this week
5
Due this month
5
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 20 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (8)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (5)Due ≤ 60 days (5)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

37
Hard (62%)
23
Medium (38%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only4 (7%)
§101 + other22 (37%)
§103 only21 (35%)
§102 only2 (3%)
Multi-statute (no §101)11 (18%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
38
Information Tech
63% of docket
17
Communications
28% of docket
1
Semiconductors
2% of docket
4
Mechanical / Eng
7% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

600 h
Manual time on pending OAs
120 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
210 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
5.2 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LHYMN, SARAH 2 66.1% +14.2%
WU, BENJAMIN C 2 87.4% +16.4%
KHAN, SHAHID K 2 74.8% +15.3%
NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 2 50.0% +65.8%
TRAN, DAVID HOANG 2 21.7% +24.1%
DANG, CHRISTINE 1 49.7% +51.4%
GAVRILENKO, VLADIMIR I 1 71.1% +27.3%
CERVETTI, DAVID GARCIA 1 82.7% +15.3%
HICKS, AUSTIN JAMES 1 75.0% +25.8%
JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY 1 56.5% -18.3%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18219017 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO TERMINATE SOFTWARE WORKLOADS WU, BENJAMIN C —

Hard Cases (38)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17679985 TENSOR MODIFICATION BASED ON PROCESSING RESOURCES KHAN, SHAHID K 58d overdue
18239875 TEXT CLUSTERING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION MCCORD, PAUL C 50d overdue
17557693 FEATURE DEPRECATION ARCHITECTURES FOR DECISION-TREE BASED METHODS NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 49d overdue
17520448 NOVEL METHOD OF TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY 46d overdue
18108277 LOGICAL CLUSTER PARTITIONING WU, BENJAMIN C 3d overdue
17398673 PERFORMANCE-AWARE SIZE REDUCTION FOR NEURAL NETWORKS BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 7d
17519532 NEURAL NETWORKS TRAINED USING EVENT OCCURRENCES PHUNG, STEVEN HUYNH 14d
17534922 TEXT CLASSIFICATION USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 22d

Interview Candidates (14)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17679985 TENSOR MODIFICATION BASED ON PROCESSING RESOURCES KHAN, SHAHID K 58d overdue
17557693 FEATURE DEPRECATION ARCHITECTURES FOR DECISION-TREE BASED METHODS NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 49d overdue
17748739 OBJECT ANIMATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS LHYMN, SARAH 17d overdue
18108277 LOGICAL CLUSTER PARTITIONING WU, BENJAMIN C 3d overdue
17534922 TEXT CLASSIFICATION USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 22d
18503797 3D OBJECT RECONSTRUCTION LHYMN, SARAH 27d
19229597 USING AN INTERNAL LEDGER WITH BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS DANG, CHRISTINE —
19201594 Automating Responses to Authentication Requests Using Unsupervised Computer Learning Techniques GAVRILENKO, VLADIMIR I —

Client Portfolio (5 clients)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
NVIDIA 40
PayPal 11
Salesforce 5
Selector Software, Inc. 3
PsiQuantum 1

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21954
21464
21244
21912
26572
26132
21252
21472
36981
24311

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
19229597 USING AN INTERNAL LEDGER WITH BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS Paypal, Inc. DANG, CHRISTINE 3698 §101§102§103Other Final Rejection — Pending Jun 05, 2025
19201594 Automating Responses to Authentication Requests Using Unsupervised Computer Learning Techniques Salesforce, Inc. GAVRILENKO, VLADIMIR I 2431 §103§112Other Non-Final OA — Pending May 07, 2025
19186328 Mechanisms for Utilizing Tokens and Cryptograms in Operations Paypal, Inc. CERVETTI, DAVID GARCIA 2409 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 22, 2025
19046114 Execution of Machine Learning Models at Client Devices Paypal, Inc. HICKS, AUSTIN JAMES 2142 §101§112 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 05, 2025
19013903 PHASE SHIFTER EMPLOYING TRANSPARENT ELECTRODES Psiquantum, Corp. JORDAN, DANIEL JEFFERY 2872 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 08, 2025
19009824 TRANSFORMER-BASED NEURAL NETWORK IMAGE UPSCALING Nvidia Corporation CADEAU, WEDNEL 2632 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 03, 2025
19005922 NEURAL NETWORK IDENTIFICATION OF VIDEO FRAMES DURING RECORDING THAT INCLUDE USER IDENTIFIED OBJECTS Nvidia Corporation MOTSINGER, SEAN T 2673 §101§102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 30, 2024
18929483 NEURAL NETWORK MODIFICATIONS TO QUERIES Nvidia Corporation RAAB, CHRISTOPHER J 2156 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 28, 2024
18748594 Live Testing of Event Processing Filters Paypal, Inc. LYONS, ANDREW M 2191 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 20, 2024
18737774 NEURAL NETWORK-BASED LOCATION IDENTIFICATION TO PLACE OBJECTS IN A GRAPHICALLY RENDERED SCENE Nvidia Corporation BROOME, SAID A 2612 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 07, 2024
18646194 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE FOR AUTOMATED OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Salesforce, Inc. HOANG, PHUONG N 2194 §101§103§112DP Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 25, 2024
18643507 Database Cache Layer Salesforce, Inc. BARTLETT, WILLIAM P 2169 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Apr 23, 2024
18634500 RATE LIMITING AT THE EDGE Paypal, Inc. ZAND, DAVOUD AMAN 2445 §102 Final Rejection 42d Pending Apr 12, 2024
18609311 Data Synthesis Using Generative Models Paypal, Inc. CHEN, KUANG FU 2143 §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 19, 2024
18604815 ROOT CAUSATION FOR NETWORK OPERATIONS Selector Software, Inc. NGUYEN, VINH 2453 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 14, 2024
18593872 DASHBOARD METADATA AS TRAINING DATA FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERYING Selector Software, Inc. GAY, SONIA L 2657 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 02, 2024
18681836 NEURAL NETWORK-BASED ENVIRONMENT REPRESENTATION Nvidia Corporation STATZ, BENJAMIN TOM 2611 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Feb 06, 2024
18431690 SPEECH PROCESSING TECHNIQUE Nvidia Corporation OPSASNICK, MICHAEL N 2655 §101§102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Feb 02, 2024
18428012 Automated Retries for Orchestration of a Datacenter on a Cloud Platform Salesforce, Inc. MATRICARDI, JEFFERSON TAYLOR 2195 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 31, 2024
18427997 End-to-End Orchestration of a Datacenter on a Cloud Platform Salesforce, Inc. KESSLER, GREGORY AARON 2197 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jan 31, 2024
18515561 Efficient Localization Using Graph Neural Networks Paypal, Inc. SALOMON, PHENUEL S 2146 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 21, 2023
18503797 3D OBJECT RECONSTRUCTION Nvidia Corporation LHYMN, SARAH 2613 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Nov 07, 2023
18385871 LOSS-SCALING FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING WITH REDUCED PRECISION Nvidia Corporation NILSSON, ERIC 2151 §102 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 31, 2023
18243348 NEURAL NETWORK PROMPT TUNING Nvidia Corporation CHUANG, SU-TING 2146 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 07, 2023
18239875 TEXT CLUSTERING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Nvidia Corporation MCCORD, PAUL C 2692 §103§112 Non-Final OA 50d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2023
18449596 METRICS, EVENTS, ALERT EXTRACTIONS FROM SYSTEM LOGS Selector Software, Inc. MEHRMANESH, ELMIRA 2113 §101§102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 14, 2023
18224513 USING PAST PERFORMANCE OF COMPUTING RESOURCES TO PERFORM SOFTWARE PROGRAMS Nvidia Corporation CHU, GABRIEL L 2114 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA 72d Pending Jul 20, 2023
18222725 VISION TRANSFORMER FOR IMAGE GENERATION Nvidia Corporation SORRIN, AARON JOSEPH 2672 §101§103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 17, 2023
18219013 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO MONITOR SOFTWARE WORKLOADS Nvidia Corporation CHEN, QING 2191 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 06, 2023
18219017 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO TERMINATE SOFTWARE WORKLOADS Nvidia Corporation WU, BENJAMIN C 2195 §103Other Final Rejection — Pending Jul 06, 2023
18207077 PROCESSOR BINDING TECHNIQUE Nvidia Corporation WAI, ERIC CHARLES 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 30d Pending Jun 07, 2023
18110141 AUDIO SIGNAL GENERATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation BECKER, TYLER JUSTIN 2657 §103 Non-Final OA 146d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2023
18108277 LOGICAL CLUSTER PARTITIONING Nvidia Corporation WU, BENJAMIN C 2195 §101 Final Rejection 3d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2023
18106964 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO ENABLE FRAME INTERPOLATION Nvidia Corporation DULANEY, BENJAMIN O 2683 §103 Final Rejection 28d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2023
18098061 TECHNIQUES FOR PRUNING NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation VAUGHN, RYAN C 2125 §103 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Jan 17, 2023
17982234 OPTICAL CHARACTER DETECTION AND RECOGNITION Nvidia Corporation SIVJI, NIZAR N 2600 §101§102 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 07, 2022
18047149 RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON BRANDING Paypal, Inc. MITROS, ANNA MAE 3689 §101 Non-Final OA — Pending Oct 17, 2022
17953166 DETECTING ROBUSTNESS OF A NEURAL NETWORK Nvidia Corporation PARK, GRACE A 2100 §102§103 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 26, 2022
17948138 USING A NEURAL NETWORK TO GENERATE AN UPSAMPLED IMAGE Nvidia Corporation YANG, JIANXUN 2662 §101§103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Sep 19, 2022
17895793 GENERATING TEXTURED MESHES USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation TAYLOR, MEREDITH IREENE DUPAI 2671 §103 Non-Final OA — Pending Aug 25, 2022
17748739 OBJECT ANIMATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation LHYMN, SARAH 2613 §103 Final Rejection 17d overdue Pending May 19, 2022
17735666 ADJUSTING PRECISION OF NEURAL NETWORK WEIGHT PARAMETERS Nvidia Corporation KIM, JONATHAN J 2141 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending May 03, 2022
17679985 TENSOR MODIFICATION BASED ON PROCESSING RESOURCES Nvidia Corporation KHAN, SHAHID K 2146 §101 Non-Final OA 58d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2022
17585394 TECHNIQUES TO PLACE OBJECTS USING NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O 3658 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Jan 26, 2022
17557665 FEATURE DEPRECATION ARCHITECTURES FOR NEURAL NETWORKS Paypal, Inc. HAN, BYUNGKWON 2121 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 21, 2021
17557693 FEATURE DEPRECATION ARCHITECTURES FOR DECISION-TREE BASED METHODS Paypal, Inc. NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 2124 §101§103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2021
17552050 MACHINE LEARNING VIA DIFFERENTIABLE SIMULATION Nvidia Corporation FACCENDA, GISEL GABRIELA 2127 §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 15, 2021
17534922 TEXT CLASSIFICATION USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 2124 §103§112 Final Rejection 22d Pending Nov 24, 2021
17520448 NOVEL METHOD OF TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK Nvidia Corporation JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY 2122 §101§102§112 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Nov 05, 2021
17519532 NEURAL NETWORKS TRAINED USING EVENT OCCURRENCES Nvidia Corporation PHUNG, STEVEN HUYNH 2125 §101§103 Final Rejection 14d Pending Nov 04, 2021

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Khmrg (Nvidia)'s patent allowance rate?

94.8% of resolved applications prosecuted by Khmrg (Nvidia) were allowed, across 25,781 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Khmrg (Nvidia) average before allowance?

3.85 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Khmrg (Nvidia) have?

60 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 5 clients, before 55 examiners in 46 art units.

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