USPTO Examiner BOSTWICK SIDNEY VINCENT - Art Unit 2124

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
17112329ULTRA-LOW POWER KEYWORD SPOTTING NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUITDecember 2020March 2025Abandon5220NoNo
17090128MACHINE LEARNING DEVICE, POWER CONSUMPTION PREDICTION DEVICE, AND CONTROL DEVICENovember 2020June 2025Abandon5540NoNo
17073602NEURAL NETWORK MODEL COMPRESSION WITH QUANTIZABILITY REGULARIZATIONOctober 2020March 2025Allow5330YesNo
17072628SECURE DATA PROCESSING USING A FIRST SYSTEM AND A SECOND SYSTEMOctober 2020June 2025Abandon5640YesNo
17033132POWER-EFFICIENT HYBRID TRAVERSAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR ARCHITECTURESeptember 2020April 2025Allow5530YesNo
17032248EFFICIENT WEIGHT CLIPPING FOR NEURAL NETWORKSSeptember 2020May 2025Allow5630YesNo
17030299LEARNING WEIGHTED-AVERAGE NEIGHBOR EMBEDDINGSSeptember 2020January 2024Abandon4010NoNo
17017751INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODSeptember 2020June 2024Abandon4530NoNo
17016184FORCING WEIGHTS OF TRANSFORMER MODEL LAYERSSeptember 2020April 2025Allow5550YesNo
17014475Neural Network Approach for Identifying a Radar Signal in the Presence of NoiseSeptember 2020August 2024Allow4730YesNo
17011569ANTISYMMETRIC NEURAL NETWORKSSeptember 2020November 2024Allow5030NoNo
17009483ACCELERATED CONVOLUTION OF NEURAL NETWORKSSeptember 2020September 2024Allow4830YesNo
17002978METHOD FOR ANALYZING CLASS SIMILARITIES IN A MACHINE LEARNING MODELAugust 2020January 2025Abandon5340NoNo
17003870NEURAL NETWORK BASED MASK SYNTHESIS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITSAugust 2020December 2024Allow5230YesNo
17002035STORAGE CONTROLLERS, STORAGE SYSTEMS, AND METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAMEAugust 2020October 2024Abandon4930YesNo
17002518Compressing and Decompressing Data for Language ModelsAugust 2020August 2024Allow4830YesNo
16986273MULTI-FUNCTION CALCULATOR AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOFAugust 2020November 2023Abandon3910NoNo
16985415DEEP NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR USING HETEROGENEOUS MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE UNITAugust 2020September 2024Allow4940YesNo
16984331CLASS-DEPENDENT MACHINE LEARNING BASED INFERENCESAugust 2020June 2025Abandon5840YesNo
16984648FEATURE EQUIVALENCE AND DOCUMENT ABNORMALITY THRESHOLD DETERMINATIONAugust 2020August 2024Allow4920YesNo
16940199DROPOUT LAYER IN A NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSORJuly 2020July 2024Allow4830YesNo
16933859CONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR FOR IMPLEMENTING CONVOLUTION NEURAL NETWORKSJuly 2020October 2024Allow5130YesNo
16962830NEURAL NETWORK HAVING REDUCED MEMORY USAGEJuly 2020June 2025Abandon5941NoNo
16931228SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARTIALLY SUPERVISED ONLINE ACTION DETECTION IN UNTRIMMED VIDEOSJuly 2020January 2025Allow5430YesNo
16836110Hybrid Filter Banks for Artificial Neural NetworksMarch 2020April 2024Allow4940YesNo
16832601METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC BATCHING OF DATA FOR NEURAL NETWORK WORKLOADSMarch 2020June 2024Allow5130YesNo
16807841ARITHMETIC OPERATION CIRCUITMarch 2020April 2023Allow3720YesNo
16796039MACHINE LEARNING MODEL AND ASSOCIATED METHODS THEREOF FOR PROVIDING AUTOMATED SUPPORTFebruary 2020December 2023Allow4640YesNo
16793832DOMAIN-ADAPTED CLASSIFIER GENERATIONFebruary 2020June 2024Abandon5230YesNo
16720318Autoencoder Neural Network for Signal Integrity Analysis of Interconnect SystemsDecember 2019August 2023Abandon4410NoNo
16714669LAYER FUSION IN NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSINGDecember 2019November 2024Allow5930NoNo
16698236HIERARCHICAL PARTITIONING OF OPERATORSNovember 2019August 2024Allow5750YesNo
16681655MOTIF SEARCH AND PREDICTION IN TEMPORAL TRADING SYSTEMSNovember 2019March 2025Abandon6040YesYes
16660171THERMOSTAT AND METHOD USING A NEURAL NETWORK TO ADJUST TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTSOctober 2019June 2023Abandon4410NoNo
16573032INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR CONVOLUTION CALCULATION IN DEEP NEURAL NETWORK AND METHOD THEREOFSeptember 2019May 2023Abandon4420NoNo
16558314HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE AND PROCESSING METHOD FOR NEURAL NETWORK ACTIVATION FUNCTIONSeptember 2019January 2023Abandon4010NoNo
16555254COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION METHOD, AND ABNORMALITY DETERMINATION DEVICEAugust 2019March 2025Allow6060NoNo
16550498METHOD OF ACCELERATING TRAINING PROCESS OF NEURAL NETWORK AND NEURAL NETWORK DEVICE THEREOFAugust 2019August 2024Allow5970YesNo
16550190NEURAL NETWORK GENERATORAugust 2019November 2024Abandon6060YesYes
16516838INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODJuly 2019November 2022Abandon4010NoNo
16515159RECURRENT AUTOENCODER FOR CHROMATIN 3D STRUCTURE PREDICTIONJuly 2019June 2022Allow3510YesNo
16511560Neural Network for Performing Operations on a Portion of Data ElementsJuly 2019September 2023Abandon5040YesNo
16506479SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTING A NEURAL NETWORK ACROSS MULTIPLE COMPUTING DEVICESJuly 2019February 2023Allow4320YesNo
16457480MACHINE GENERATED CONTENT NAMING IN AN INFORMATION CENTRIC NETWORKJune 2019December 2022Allow4230YesNo
16425403DYNAMIC PRECISION SCALING AT EPOCH GRANULARITY IN NEURAL NETWORKSMay 2019August 2024Allow6040YesYes
16425012Training Method, Apparatus, and Chip for Neural Network ModelMay 2019January 2023Abandon4320YesNo
16424429Memory as a Service for Artificial Neural Network (ANN) ApplicationsMay 2019May 2025Allow6060NoNo
16415500NEURAL NETWORK INCLUDING A NEURAL NETWORK PROJECTION LAYER CONFIGURED FOR A SUMMING PARAMETERMay 2019March 2023Abandon4620NoNo
16402204NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY (NIR) BASED GLUCOSE PREDICTION USING DEEP LEARNINGMay 2019October 2022Abandon4220NoNo
16345551LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR OSCILLATORY MEMRISTIVE NEUROMORPHIC CIRCUITSApril 2019July 2024Allow6060YesYes
16362236IDENTIFYING BIOSYNTHETIC GENE CLUSTERSMarch 2019February 2024Allow5820YesYes
16357139MIXED PRECISION TRAINING OF AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKMarch 2019April 2024Abandon6040YesNo
16299828Generative Adversarial Network Based Audio RestorationMarch 2019April 2024Allow6020YesYes
16286652LEARNING METHOD, LEARNING DEVICE, AND IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEMFebruary 2019January 2025Abandon6040YesYes
16284322ANSWERING COGNITIVE QUERIES FROM SENSOR INPUT SIGNALSFebruary 2019January 2025Allow6050YesYes
16280065ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKFebruary 2019June 2023Abandon5240YesNo
16275813Systems and Methods for Improved Generalization, Reproducibility, and Stabilization of Neural Networks via Error Control Code ConstraintsFebruary 2019August 2023Abandon5440YesNo
16325259ARRAY DEVICE INCLUDING NEUROMORPHIC ELEMENT AND NEURAL NETWORK SYSTEMFebruary 2019August 2023Abandon5420YesYes
16270697TRAINING OPTIMIZATION FOR NEURAL NETWORKS WITH BATCH NORM LAYERSFebruary 2019February 2024Abandon6040YesNo
16265906METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INCORPORATING REGRESSION INTO STACKED AUTO ENCODER (SAE)February 2019December 2022Allow4730YesNo
15929093DEEP NEURAL NETWORK ACCELERATOR WITH FINE-GRAINED PARALLELISM DISCOVERYJanuary 2019March 2024Allow6040NoYes
16244208Grading And Unlearning Implementations For Neural Network Based Course Of Action SelectionJanuary 2019November 2022Abandon4610NoNo
16239046NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSING UNIT INCLUDING APPROXIMATE MULTIPLIER AND SYSTEM ON CHIP INCLUDING THE SAMEJanuary 2019October 2024Allow6050YesNo
16234617METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED DEEP LEARNINGDecember 2018October 2022Abandon4610NoNo
16225034META-LEARNING SYSTEMDecember 2018August 2023Allow5630YesNo
16217731ADAPTATION OF MEMORY CELL STRUCTURE AND FABRICATION PROCESS TO BINARY DATA ASYMMETRY AND BIT-INVERSION TOLERANCE ASYMMETRY IN DEEP LEARNING MODELSDecember 2018June 2022Abandon4210NoNo
16216425ENVIRONMENT CONTROLLER AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING PREDICTIVE MODELS USED FOR CONTROLLING A TEMPERATURE IN AN AREADecember 2018January 2023Abandon4930NoNo
16212586NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DIE WITH DEEP LEARNING NEURAL NETWORKDecember 2018April 2025Allow6050YesYes
16204599APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK USING SYSTOLIC ARRAY AND METHOD THEREOFNovember 2018January 2023Abandon5010NoNo
16201062ESTIMATION METHOD AND APPARATUSNovember 2018April 2023Abandon5340NoNo
16184180WARPING SEQUENCE DATA FOR LEARNING IN NEURAL NETWORKSNovember 2018June 2024Abandon6070YesNo
16180250Hierarchical Mantissa Bit Length Selection for Hardware Implementation of Deep Neural NetworkNovember 2018August 2024Allow6020NoYes
16181168METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATICALLY CREATING STATISTICALLY ACCURATE ERGONOMICS DATANovember 2018December 2024Allow6080YesNo
16176961NEURAL QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMOctober 2018April 2024Abandon6040YesNo
16177017Method to Map Convolutional Layers of Deep Neural Network on a Plurality of Processing Elements with SIMD Execution Units, Private Memories, and Connected as a 2D Systolic Processor ArrayOctober 2018August 2024Allow6060YesNo
16176091Signal and/or spectrum analyzer device and method of signal matchingOctober 2018July 2024Allow6060YesNo
16175525SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING DOCUMENTS WITH TOPIC VECTORSOctober 2018November 2024Abandon6070YesNo
16172758ASSURANCE OF POLICY BASED ALERTINGOctober 2018April 2025Allow6080YesNo
16051034SCHEDULER FOR MAPPING NEURAL NETWORKS ONTO AN ARRAY OF NEURAL CORES IN AN INFERENCE PROCESSING UNITJuly 2018April 2025Allow6080YesNo
16071402NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTING METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE THEREFORJuly 2018June 2023Abandon5940YesNo
16008949PARALLEL COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURE WITH RECONFIGURABLE CORE-LEVEL AND VECTOR-LEVEL PARALLELISMJune 2018August 2023Allow6040YesNo
15985463FEEDFORWARD GENERATIVE NEURAL NETWORKSMay 2018November 2023Allow6041YesNo
15972048QUANTIZATION FOR DNN ACCELERATORSMay 2018May 2023Abandon6040YesNo
15943872Neural Network Processor Incorporating Inter-Device ConnectivityApril 2018April 2023Allow6030YesNo
15934341ELECTRONIC APPARATUS FOR OPERATING MACHINE LEARNING AND METHOD FOR OPERATING MACHINE LEARNINGMarch 2018September 2023Allow6050YesNo
15933037INTELLIGENT VISUAL OBJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMMarch 2018December 2022Abandon5710NoNo
15921634TRAINING NETWORK TO MAXIMIZE TRUE POSITIVE RATE AT LOW FALSE POSITIVE RATEMarch 2018July 2024Allow6040YesYes
15906096ADJUSTING A CLASSIFICATION MODEL BASED ON ADVERSARIAL PREDICTIONSFebruary 2018January 2024Abandon6040YesNo
15898566Highly Efficient Convolutional Neural NetworksFebruary 2018March 2023Allow6020YesNo
15892246PRIVATIZED MACHINE LEARNING USING GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKSFebruary 2018August 2023Abandon6030YesNo
15888800METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE INFORMATION EXTRACTION THROUGH ADAPTIVE LEARNING OF HUMAN ANNOTATORS AND DEVICES THEREOFFebruary 2018July 2024Abandon6050NoNo
15869364INTERACTION ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION BASED NEURAL NETWORKINGJanuary 2018October 2022Abandon5720YesNo
15869502FINE-GRAIN COMPUTE COMMUNICATION EXECUTION FOR DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORKS VIA HARDWARE ACCELERATED POINT-TO-POINT PRIMITIVESJanuary 2018August 2024Allow6061YesNo
15868392SYNAPSE SYSTEM AND SYNAPSE METHOD TO REALIZE STDP OPERATIONJanuary 2018January 2023Allow6040NoNo
15858014COMPUTE OPTIMIZATION MECHANISM FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORKSDecember 2017May 2024Allow6051YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
7
Examiner Affirmed
1
(14.3%)
Examiner Reversed
6
(85.7%)
Reversal Percentile
90.8%
Higher than average

What This Means

With a 85.7% reversal rate, the PTAB has reversed the examiner's rejections more often than affirming them. This reversal rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals are more successful here than in most other areas.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
15
Allowed After Appeal Filing
7
(46.7%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
8
(53.3%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
75.2%
Higher than average

Understanding Appeal Filing Strategy

Filing a Notice of Appeal can sometimes lead to allowance even before the appeal is fully briefed or decided by the PTAB. This occurs when the examiner or their supervisor reconsiders the rejection during the mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) after the appeal is filed.

In this dataset, 46.7% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Strategic Recommendations

Appeals to PTAB show good success rates. If you have a strong case on the merits, consider fully prosecuting the appeal to a Board decision.

Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Examiner BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT works in Art Unit 2124 and has examined 95 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 53.7%, this examiner allows applications at a lower rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 56 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT's allowance rate of 53.7% places them in the 16% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is less likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT receive 3.55 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 92% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues more office actions than most examiners, which may indicate thorough examination or difficulty in reaching agreement with applicants.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT is 56 months. This places the examiner in the 3% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications take longer to reach final disposition with this examiner compared to most others.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +42.5% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by BOSTWICK, SIDNEY VINCENT. This interview benefit is in the 88% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews are highly effective with this examiner and should be strongly considered as a prosecution strategy. Per MPEP § 713.10, interviews are available at any time before the Notice of Allowance is mailed or jurisdiction transfers to the PTAB.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 19.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 21% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show lower effectiveness with this examiner compared to others. Consider whether a continuation application might be more strategic, especially if you need to add new matter or significantly broaden claims.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 4.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 6% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner rarely enters after-final amendments compared to other examiners. You should generally plan to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry. Per MPEP § 714.12, primary examiners have discretion in entering after-final amendments, and this examiner exercises that discretion conservatively.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 25.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 29% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show below-average success with this examiner. Consider whether your arguments are strong enough to warrant a PAC request.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 58.8% of appeals filed. This is in the 33% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 10.0% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner shows below-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. Be prepared to fully prosecute appeals if filed.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 85.7% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 86% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are frequently granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1002.02(c), various examiner actions are petitionable to the Technology Center Director, including prematureness of final rejection, refusal to enter amendments, and requirement for information. If you believe an examiner action is improper, consider filing a petition.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 9% percentile). This examiner rarely makes examiner's amendments compared to other examiners. You should expect to make all necessary claim amendments yourself through formal amendment practice.

Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 10% percentile). This examiner rarely issues Quayle actions compared to other examiners. Allowances typically come directly without a separate action for formal matters.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:

  • Prepare for rigorous examination: With a below-average allowance rate, ensure your application has strong written description and enablement support. Consider filing a continuation if you need to add new matter.
  • Expect multiple rounds of prosecution: This examiner issues more office actions than average. Address potential issues proactively in your initial response and consider requesting an interview early in prosecution.
  • Prioritize examiner interviews: Interviews are highly effective with this examiner. Request an interview after the first office action to clarify issues and potentially expedite allowance.
  • Plan for RCE after final rejection: This examiner rarely enters after-final amendments. Budget for an RCE in your prosecution strategy if you receive a final rejection.
  • Plan for extended prosecution: Applications take longer than average with this examiner. Factor this into your continuation strategy and client communications.

Relevant MPEP Sections for Prosecution Strategy

  • MPEP § 713.10: Examiner interviews - available before Notice of Allowance or transfer to PTAB
  • MPEP § 714.12: After-final amendments - may be entered "under justifiable circumstances"
  • MPEP § 1002.02(c): Petitionable matters to Technology Center Director
  • MPEP § 1004: Actions requiring primary examiner signature (allowances, final rejections, examiner's answers)
  • MPEP § 1207.01: Appeal conferences - mandatory for all appeals
  • MPEP § 1214.07: Reopening prosecution after appeal

Important Disclaimer

Not Legal Advice: The information provided in this report is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. You should consult with a qualified patent attorney or agent for advice specific to your situation.

No Guarantees: We do not provide any guarantees as to the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the statistics presented above. Patent prosecution statistics are derived from publicly available USPTO data and are subject to data quality limitations, processing errors, and changes in USPTO practices over time.

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Use at Your Own Risk: While we strive to provide accurate and useful prosecution statistics, you should independently verify any information that is material to your prosecution strategy and use your professional judgment in all patent prosecution matters.