Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Khmrg (Nvidia)

40 pending office actions • 1 client • 37 examiners • 29 art units • 0 of 40 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 40 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

40
Total Pending OAs
18
Non-Final OAs
22
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 39 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

18
Overdue
1
Due this week
9
Due this month
9
Due in next 60 days
2
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. 39 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (18)Due ≤ 7 days (1)Due ≤ 30 days (9)Due ≤ 60 days (9)Due later (2)

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.

3
Hard (8%)
35
Medium (88%)
1
Easy (2%)
1
Unknown (2%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only3 (8%)
§103 only32 (80%)
§102 only3 (8%)
§112 only1 (2%)
No statute on record1 (2%)

Industry Mix

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

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
23
Information Tech
58% of docket
16
Communications
40% of docket
0
Semiconductors
0% of docket
1
Mechanical / Eng
2% 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.

400 h
Manual time on pending OAs
80 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
140 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
3.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
LHYMN, SARAH 2 65.5% +15.1%
HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON 2 82.6% +23.4%
KHAN, SHAHID K 2 74.1% +15.4%
LI, TRACY Y 1 80.3% +16.9%
HUYNH, VAN D 1 87.0% +13.9%
SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A 1 85.2% +15.5%
OSINSKI, MICHAEL S 1 75.4% +23.1%
HOANG, MICHAEL H 1 52.1% +24.3%
MCCORD, PAUL C 1 69.2% +26.1%
RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA 1 66.7% +100.0%

Quick Wins (5)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 5 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18766228 SUPERPIXEL GENERATION AND USE LI, TRACY Y 31d overdue
18679254 NEURAL NETWORK-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF POSES OF CAMERAS HUYNH, VAN D 9d
17950009 GENERATING NEURAL NETWORKS HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON 20d
18612975 ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM IDENTIFICATION SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A 26d
17459644 DETERMINING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS FOR OBJECT CLASSIFICATION HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON 33d

Hard Cases (3)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17503067 TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING DIMENSIONS OF DATA HALES, BRIAN J 19d overdue
17519532 NEURAL NETWORKS TRAINED USING EVENT OCCURRENCES PHUNG, STEVEN HUYNH 14d
17735666 ADJUSTING PRECISION OF NEURAL NETWORK WEIGHT PARAMETERS KIM, JONATHAN J 56d

Interview Candidates (13)

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
18239875 TEXT CLUSTERING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION MCCORD, PAUL C 50d overdue
18224796 SCHEDULING INSTRUCTIONS USING LATENCY OF INTERCONNECTS OF PROCESSORS RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA 37d overdue
18405932 NEURAL NETWORK FOR IMAGE REGISTRATION AND IMAGE SEGMENTATION TRAINED USING A REGISTRATION SIMULATOR OSINSKI, MICHAEL S 32d overdue
18766228 SUPERPIXEL GENERATION AND USE LI, TRACY Y 31d overdue
17748739 OBJECT ANIMATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS LHYMN, SARAH 17d overdue
18679254 NEURAL NETWORK-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF POSES OF CAMERAS HUYNH, VAN D 9d
17950009 GENERATING NEURAL NETWORKS HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON 20d

Client Portfolio (1 client)

Client (Assignee)Pending OAs
NVIDIA 40

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
21223
21253
21463
26132
21952
21272
26622
21242
24871
26651

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18766228 SUPERPIXEL GENERATION AND USE Nvidia Corporation LI, TRACY Y 2487 §103 Final Rejection 31d overdue Pending Jul 08, 2024
18679254 NEURAL NETWORK-BASED IDENTIFICATION OF POSES OF CAMERAS Nvidia Corporation HUYNH, VAN D 2665 §102 Non-Final OA 9d Pending May 30, 2024
18612975 ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM IDENTIFICATION Nvidia Corporation SIDDIQI, MOHAMMAD A 2493 §103 Non-Final OA 26d Pending Mar 21, 2024
18405932 NEURAL NETWORK FOR IMAGE REGISTRATION AND IMAGE SEGMENTATION TRAINED USING A REGISTRATION SIMULATOR Nvidia Corporation OSINSKI, MICHAEL S 2674 §102 Non-Final OA 32d overdue Pending Jan 05, 2024
18503797 3D OBJECT RECONSTRUCTION Nvidia Corporation LHYMN, SARAH 2613 §103 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Nov 07, 2023
18367223 ACTIVE LEARNING WITH ANNOTATION SCORES Nvidia Corporation HOANG, MICHAEL H 2122 §103 Final Rejection 76d Pending Sep 12, 2023
18239875 TEXT CLUSTERING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION Nvidia Corporation MCCORD, PAUL C 2692 §103 Final Rejection 50d overdue Pending Aug 30, 2023
18224796 SCHEDULING INSTRUCTIONS USING LATENCY OF INTERCONNECTS OF PROCESSORS Nvidia Corporation RIGGINS, ARI FAITH COLEMA 2197 §103 Non-Final OA 37d overdue Pending Jul 21, 2023
18224513 USING PAST PERFORMANCE OF COMPUTING RESOURCES TO PERFORM SOFTWARE PROGRAMS Nvidia Corporation ZECHER, CORDELIA P K 2114 Other Non-Final OA 72d Pending Jul 20, 2023
18207953 USING NEURAL NETWORKS TO GENERATE SYNTHETIC DATA Nvidia Corporation TUCKER, WESLEY J 2661 §103 Non-Final OA 124d overdue Pending Jun 09, 2023
18207077 PROCESSOR BINDING TECHNIQUE Nvidia Corporation WAI, ERIC CHARLES 2195 §103 Final Rejection 30d Pending Jun 07, 2023
18195784 PANORAMA GENERATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation CHANG, KENT WU 2614 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending May 10, 2023
18140321 MOTION GENERATION USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation DOAN, PHUC N 2618 §112 Final Rejection 44d overdue Pending Apr 27, 2023
18110141 AUDIO SIGNAL GENERATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation BECKER, TYLER JUSTIN 2657 §103 Final Rejection 146d overdue Pending Feb 15, 2023
18108277 LOGICAL CLUSTER PARTITIONING Nvidia Corporation WU, BENJAMIN C 2195 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Feb 10, 2023
18106964 APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO ENABLE FRAME INTERPOLATION Nvidia Corporation DULANEY, BENJAMIN O 2683 §103 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Feb 07, 2023
18098061 TECHNIQUES FOR PRUNING NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation VAUGHN, RYAN C 2125 §103 Final Rejection 9d Pending Jan 17, 2023
17982386 NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTATION TECHNIQUE Nvidia Corporation GALVIN-SIEBENALER, PAUL MICHAEL 2147 §103 Final Rejection 27d Pending Nov 07, 2022
17950009 GENERATING NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON 2127 §103 Final Rejection 20d Pending Sep 21, 2022
17948138 USING A NEURAL NETWORK TO GENERATE AN UPSAMPLED IMAGE Nvidia Corporation YANG, JIANXUN 2662 §103 Non-Final OA 33d Pending Sep 19, 2022
17875063 ANALYZING FEEDBACK USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation SAINT CYR, LEONARD 2658 §103 Final Rejection 34d Pending Jul 27, 2022
17859670 NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE SELECTION Nvidia Corporation REYES, MARIELA D 2142 §103 Non-Final OA 54d Pending Jul 07, 2022
17842481 PHYSICS-BASED IMAGE GENERATION USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation FLORA, NURUN N 2619 §103 Final Rejection 117d overdue Pending Jun 16, 2022
17748739 OBJECT ANIMATION USING NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation LHYMN, SARAH 2613 §103 Non-Final OA 17d overdue Pending May 19, 2022
17735666 ADJUSTING PRECISION OF NEURAL NETWORK WEIGHT PARAMETERS Nvidia Corporation KIM, JONATHAN J 2141 §101 Non-Final OA 56d Pending May 03, 2022
17719091 NEURAL NETWORK-BASED PERTURBATION REMOVAL Nvidia Corporation CAMMARATA, MICHAEL ROBERT 2667 §103 Final Rejection 36d Pending Apr 12, 2022
17679985 TENSOR MODIFICATION BASED ON PROCESSING RESOURCES Nvidia Corporation KHAN, SHAHID K 2146 §103 Final Rejection 58d overdue Pending Feb 24, 2022
17585394 TECHNIQUES TO PLACE OBJECTS USING NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation EL SAYAH, MOHAMAD O 3658 §103 Non-Final OA 41d Pending Jan 26, 2022
17534922 TEXT CLASSIFICATION USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation NAULT, VICTOR ADELARD 2124 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 24, 2021
17520448 NOVEL METHOD OF TRAINING A NEURAL NETWORK Nvidia Corporation JONES, CHARLES JEFFREY 2122 §102 Final Rejection 46d overdue Pending Nov 05, 2021
17519532 NEURAL NETWORKS TRAINED USING EVENT OCCURRENCES Nvidia Corporation PHUNG, STEVEN HUYNH 2125 §101 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 04, 2021
17503210 TECHNIQUES FOR INFERRING INFORMATION Nvidia Corporation VANWORMER, SKYLAR K 2146 §103 Final Rejection 4d overdue Pending Oct 15, 2021
17503067 TECHNIQUES FOR DETERMINING DIMENSIONS OF DATA Nvidia Corporation HALES, BRIAN J 2125 §101 Non-Final OA 19d overdue Pending Oct 15, 2021
17459644 DETERMINING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS FOR OBJECT CLASSIFICATION Nvidia Corporation HOOVER, BRENT JOHNSTON 2127 §103 Final Rejection 33d Pending Aug 27, 2021
17398673 PERFORMANCE-AWARE SIZE REDUCTION FOR NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT 2124 §103 Final Rejection 7d Pending Aug 10, 2021
17394842 SELECTING TRAINING DATA FOR NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation KHAN, SHAHID K 2146 §103 Final Rejection Pending Aug 05, 2021
17383339 NEURAL NETWORK EVALUATION Nvidia Corporation PAN, HANG 2193 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Jul 22, 2021
17382027 SYNTHESIZING VIDEO FROM AUDIO USING ONE OR MORE NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation RICHER, AARON M 2617 §103 Final Rejection 56d Pending Jul 21, 2021
16813673 TECHNIQUES TO TRAIN A NEURAL NETWORK USING TRANSFORMATIONS Nvidia Corporation SHEN, QUN 2662 §103 Final Rejection 41d Pending Mar 09, 2020
16373447 MEMORY EFFICIENT NEURAL NETWORKS Nvidia Corporation SMITH, BRIAN M 2122 §103 Final Rejection 23d overdue Pending Apr 02, 2019

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