USPTO Examiner FIGUEROA KEVIN W - Art Unit 2124

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19275890EVENT PREDICTION METHOD BASED ON SATELLITE ORBIT THREAT DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE GRAPHJuly 2025February 2026Allow610NoNo
19223082METHOD FOR EVALUATING DRIVING RISK LEVEL IN TUNNEL BASED ON VEHICLE BUS DATA AND SYSTEM THEREFORMay 2025December 2025Allow710NoNo
19080814ONTOLOGY-DRIVEN METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING FISH KNOWLEDGE GRAPH IN TARGET REGIONMarch 2025September 2025Allow610NoNo
19018794Smart Device SystemJanuary 2025November 2025Abandon1010NoNo
18898509COPILOT IMPLEMENTATION: TRAINING AN EXPANSION MACHINE LEARNING TOOLSeptember 2024March 2026Abandon1820YesYes
18812897ENTROPY-BASED PREEMPTIVE FALSE POSITIVE MITIGATIONAugust 2024April 2025Allow810YesNo
18740464SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS WITH USER-SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS TO PREDICT OUTCOMESJune 2024September 2025Allow1530YesNo
18669203SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FACILITATING NETWORK CONTENT GENERATION VIA A DYNAMIC MULTI-MODEL APPROACHMay 2024December 2025Allow1830YesNo
18416549SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MESSAGE REACTION ANALYSISJanuary 2024July 2025Allow1830YesNo
18532795INCREMENTAL PRECISION NETWORKS USING RESIDUAL INFERENCE AND FINE-GRAIN QUANTIZATIONDecember 2023September 2024Allow910NoNo
18497823A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A KNOWLEDGE GRAPHOctober 2023April 2025Allow1820YesNo
18375669METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYSIS OF PRESERVATION REQUIREMENTS USING A DUAL PREDICTOR ARCHITECTUREOctober 2023November 2024Allow1430YesNo
18240799Systems and Methods for Communication Efficient Distributed Mean EstimationAugust 2023September 2024Allow1310NoNo
18457255SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REFINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS BASED ON USER RESPONSES TO PROMPTSAugust 2023November 2025Allow2750YesNo
18232635PROCESSING LOOPS IN COMPUTATIONAL GRAPHSAugust 2023October 2024Allow1410NoNo
18199865METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ONE OR MORE CONDITIONALLY DEPENDENT DATA ENTRIESMay 2023May 2025Allow2430YesNo
18120434METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING DESIGN CONCEPT GENERATION NETWORK (DCGN) AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING CONCEPTUAL SCHEMEMarch 2023March 2026Allow3610NoNo
18115954METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CLUSTERING RECORDS USING IMPERFECT RULESMarch 2023February 2024Allow1110NoNo
18107577SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIVERSITY-ENHANCED ADAPTIVE EXPERIMENTATION IN A MACHINE LEARNING-BASED FORMULATION PLATFORMFebruary 2023May 2024Allow1520YesNo
18150701MODELING FOR COMPLEX OUTCOMES USING CLUSTERING AND MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMSJanuary 2023April 2025Abandon2710NoNo
18091654NETWORK OF INTELLIGENT MACHINESDecember 2022March 2026Allow3810NoNo
18003695Semantic-Based Causal Event Probability Analysis Method, Apparatus and SystemDecember 2022October 2024Abandon2230NoNo
18060414INCREMENTAL PRECISION NETWORKS USING RESIDUAL INFERENCE AND FINE-GRAIN QUANTIZATIONNovember 2022September 2023Allow900NoNo
17993777SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE ANALYSISNovember 2022July 2023Allow810YesNo
17969816Machine Learning For Intent Matching EngineOctober 2022January 2025Allow2740YesNo
17968591DATA PATTERN ANALYSIS USING OPTIMIZED DETERMINISTIC FINITE AUTOMATONOctober 2022June 2025Allow3230YesNo
17915660LEARNING DEVICE, PERISHABLE PRODUCT CONTAINING DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2022June 2024Abandon2140YesNo
17859654INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE FOR MACHINE LEARNING PRIORITIZATIONJuly 2022December 2023Abandon1720YesNo
17859684TIME-BASED ENSEMBLE MACHINE LEARNING MODELJuly 2022March 2024Allow2020YesNo
17833651METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING AND ENUMERATING CROSS-BODY DEGRADATIONSJune 2022May 2024Allow2420YesNo
17661316DIRECTED TRAJECTORIES THROUGH COMMUNICATION DECISION TREE USING ITERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEApril 2022May 2023Allow1210NoNo
17706341Graph Database Implemented Knowledge MeshMarch 2022July 2023Allow1630YesNo
17701778LEARNING NEURAL NETWORK STRUCTUREMarch 2022October 2023Allow1810YesNo
17687809MOLECULAR STRUCTURE ACQUISITION METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMMarch 2022January 2026Allow4710NoNo
17562001METHOD FOR REAL TIME OPTIMIZATION AND PARALLEL COMPUTING OF MODEL PREDICTION CONTROL BASED ON COMPUTING CHARTDecember 2021July 2023Allow1800NoNo
17560000SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEEP LEARNING WITH SMALL TRAINING SETSDecember 2021August 2022Allow710YesNo
17555411System and Method for Identifying Substitutable Entities in Procedural InstructionsDecember 2021August 2025Allow4410NoNo
17544213METHOD FOR PREDICTING DIOXIN EMISSION CONCENTRATIONDecember 2021December 2025Abandon4820NoNo
17540369SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLASSIFYING MEDIA ACCORDING TO USER NEGATIVE PROPENSITIESDecember 2021May 2023Allow1810YesNo
17540800METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING MACHINE LEARNING CLASSIFICATIONSDecember 2021December 2023Allow2510YesNo
17532478OPTIMIZATION OF INVESTIGATOR AND SITE LOCATION IDENTIFICATIONNovember 2021June 2024Allow3020YesNo
17454976COGNITIVE DISAMBIGUATION FOR PROBLEM-SOLVING TASKS INVOLVING A POWER GRID USING RELEVANCE FEEDBACKNovember 2021March 2025Allow4040NoNo
17517374Detecting Human Input Activity in a Cognitive Environment Using Wearable Inertia and Audio SensorsNovember 2021March 2026Allow5220YesNo
17514063AGENT ASSISTED MODEL DEVELOPMENTOctober 2021January 2025Allow3800NoNo
17607385COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF ANALOG NEURONOctober 2021January 2026Abandon5020NoNo
17502794Systems and Methods for Communication Efficient Distributed Mean EstimationOctober 2021May 2023Allow1910NoNo
17501330SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE MODELING FOR ENTITLEMENT DIFFUSION AND ROLE EVOLUTION IN IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS USING NETWORK IDENTITY GRAPHSOctober 2021June 2023Allow2010NoNo
17498248QUANTUM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING IN A NEXT GENERATION MOBILE NETWORKOctober 2021March 2026Allow5330YesNo
17493492CIRCUIT FOR HANDLING PROCESSING WITH OUTLIERSOctober 2021October 2025Allow4910YesNo
17492643SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEOctober 2021November 2024Abandon3820NoNo
17483093METHOD TO INCREASE DISCOVERY PIPELINE HIT RATES AND LAB TO FIELD TRANSLATIONSeptember 2021April 2022Allow720YesNo
17477514Method and Apparatus for Cross CorrelationSeptember 2021May 2025Abandon4410NoNo
17462186RELIABILITY EVALUATION DEVICE AND RELIABILITY EVALUATION METHODAugust 2021August 2025Abandon4820NoNo
17461979FEDERATED LEARNING FOR IMPROVING MATCHING EFFICIENCYAugust 2021August 2025Allow4810NoNo
17412630RETRAINING DOCUMENT-TAGGING MACHINE-LEARNED MODEL BASED ON ANONYMIZED DATAAugust 2021October 2025Allow5020YesNo
17412970SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR APPROXIMATING NUMERICAL FEATURES VIA CUBIC SPLINES AND APPLICATIONS THEREOFAugust 2021December 2025Allow5230NoNo
17423075AGENT JOINING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAMJuly 2021November 2025Abandon5220NoNo
17305125SYSTEM METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AI-BASED ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF HYDROLOGY MANAGEMENT FOR BASIN RIVERSJune 2021January 2022Allow711YesNo
17364135METHOD AND SYSTEM USING MACHINE LEARNING FOR WELL OPERATIONS AND LOGISTICSJune 2021September 2025Allow5030YesNo
17362607VISUAL QUESTION ANSWERING WITH KNOWLEDGE GRAPHSJune 2021February 2026Allow5530YesNo
17361316SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPACT TREE REPRESENTATION FOR MACHINE LEARNINGJune 2021March 2025Allow4520YesNo
17337053SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT GENERATION OF MACHINE-LEARNING MODELSJune 2021February 2025Allow4540YesNo
17333251SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR MULTI-LANGUAGE ABSTRACT MODEL CREATION FOR DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT SIMULATIONSMay 2021January 2023Allow2010NoNo
17319210SYSTEM, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR DISTRIBUTED PROBABILISTIC EIDETIC QUERYING, ROLLBACK, AND REPLAYMay 2021January 2024Allow3280NoNo
17308267DIGITAL TRANSACTION LEDGER WITH DNA-RELATED LEDGER PARAMETERMay 2021October 2024Allow4130YesNo
17246201METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTING DEVICES FOR TRAININGS OF LEARNING MODELSApril 2021July 2022Allow1530YesNo
17244006METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH NEURAL NETWORK INFERENCE OPTIMIZATION IMPLEMENTATIONApril 2021November 2025Allow5420YesNo
17227010SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDRESSING OVERFITTING IN A NEURAL NETWORKApril 2021July 2023Allow2710NoNo
17208436SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORKS OF TIME SERIESMarch 2021April 2022Allow1330YesNo
17208316SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORKS OF TIME SERIESMarch 2021June 2025Abandon5120YesNo
17276094METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTIRAIL ENCODING OF QUANTUM BITSMarch 2021February 2025Allow4710YesNo
17198259REINFORCEMENT LEARNING SYSTEM AND TRAINING METHODMarch 2021April 2025Abandon4940YesNo
17192756ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TURNOVER RATE PREDICTIONMarch 2021February 2026Abandon5920NoNo
17188112PROCESSING SEQUENTIAL INTERACTION DATAMarch 2021December 2022Allow2110NoNo
17164491METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONFIRMING AN ADVISORY INTERACTION WITH AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORMFebruary 2021May 2025Allow5120YesNo
17155665PREDICTION CIRCUITRY CONFIGURED TO PREDICT SPECULATIVE ACTION BASED ON HIT-TO-TRAIN RATIO OR BASED ON TRAIN COUNTER AND HIT COUNTERJanuary 2021June 2025Allow5210NoNo
17152262FIELD DATA MONITORING DEVICE, FIELD DATA MONITORING METHOD, AND FIELD DATA DISPLAY DEVICEJanuary 2021September 2025Abandon5620NoNo
17143029SCALABLE NEUTRAL ATOM BASED QUANTUM COMPUTINGJanuary 2021May 2025Allow5210YesNo
17135396METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING BEHAVIOR PREDICTION BY USING EXPLAINABLE SELF-FOCUSED ATTENTIONDecember 2020May 2023Abandon2960YesNo
17126818GENERATION OF A BAYESIAN NETWORKDecember 2020August 2023Allow3220NoNo
17117925METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED TRAINING USING SYNTHETIC GRADIENTSDecember 2020March 2025Abandon5110NoNo
17118139ALTERNATIVE SOFT LABEL GENERATIONDecember 2020January 2025Allow5030YesNo
17116811Probabilistic Accumulation Approach to Assess Primary Uncertainty In Catastrophe ModelsDecember 2020October 2024Allow4710YesNo
17113814SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOLVING UNRESTRICTED INCREMENTAL CONSTRAINT PROBLEMSDecember 2020October 2023Allow3420YesNo
17101406SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE MODELING FOR ENTITLEMENT DIFFUSION AND ROLE EVOLUTION IN IDENTITY MANAGEMENT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS USING NETWORK IDENTITY GRAPHSNovember 2020August 2021Allow910YesNo
17080596APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR CROWDSOURCING DOMAIN SPECIFIC INTELLIGENCEOctober 2020January 2026Allow6050YesNo
17049651SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMULATING QUANTIZATION NOISE FOR A NEURAL NETWORKOctober 2020February 2024Allow4010NoNo
17049642VISUAL QUESTION ANSWERING USING ON-IMAGE ANNOTATIONSOctober 2020April 2024Abandon4210NoNo
17032050METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONFIRMING AN ADVISORY INTERACTION WITH AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORMSeptember 2020May 2024Allow4310YesNo
17030359USER-TAILORED RECOMMENDATIONSSeptember 2020May 2023Abandon3110NoNo
17022771METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OBSERVATION PREDICTION IN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLESSeptember 2020December 2024Allow5110NoNo
17011151DYNAMIC ONTOLOGY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMSeptember 2020October 2024Allow4920YesYes
17006002SEPARATION DISTANCE BETWEEN FEATURE VECTORS FOR SEMI-SUPERVISED HOTSPOT DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATIONAugust 2020April 2025Abandon5520YesNo
16976063Mission-Critical AI Processor with Multi-Layer Fault Tolerance SupportAugust 2020October 2024Abandon5010NoNo
17000973METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING AND ENUMERATING CROSS-BODY DEGRADATIONSAugust 2020April 2022Allow1940YesNo
16986974PROCESSING LOOPS IN COMPUTATIONAL GRAPHSAugust 2020May 2023Allow3310NoNo
16983775APPARATUSES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A BASE-LINE PROBABLE ROOF LOSS CONFIDENCE SCOREAugust 2020September 2025Allow6040YesNo
16941615TECHNOLOGY FOR OPTIMIZING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PIPELINESJuly 2020August 2024Abandon4810NoNo
16938416CATEGORICAL INPUT MACHINE LEARNING MODELSJuly 2020June 2025Allow5830YesNo
16936328MACHINE LEARNING BASED HEALTH OUTCOME RECOMMENDATION ENGINEJuly 2020March 2024Abandon4310NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner FIGUEROA, KEVIN W.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
19
Examiner Affirmed
15
(78.9%)
Examiner Reversed
4
(21.1%)
Reversal Percentile
34.2%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 21.1% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is below the USPTO average, indicating that appeals face more challenges here than typical.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
38
Allowed After Appeal Filing
11
(28.9%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
27
(71.1%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
43.4%
Lower 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, 28.9% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is below the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal has limited effectiveness in prompting favorable reconsideration.

Strategic Recommendations

Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.

Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.

Examiner FIGUEROA, KEVIN W - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner FIGUEROA, KEVIN W works in Art Unit 2124 and has examined 301 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 71.1%, this examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 50 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner FIGUEROA, KEVIN W's allowance rate of 71.1% places them in the 34% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has a below-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by FIGUEROA, KEVIN W receive 2.99 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 86% 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 FIGUEROA, KEVIN W is 50 months. This places the examiner in the 5% 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 +26.4% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by FIGUEROA, KEVIN W. This interview benefit is in the 73% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 22.9% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 30% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show below-average effectiveness with this examiner. Carefully evaluate whether an RCE or continuation is the better strategy.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 19.8% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 24% 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, 54.5% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 47% 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 54.8% of appeals filed. This is in the 26% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 21.7% 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, 30.5% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 18% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are rarely granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing a petition, as the Technology Center Director typically upholds this examiner's decisions.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.3% of allowed cases (in the 56% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments more often than average to place applications in condition for allowance (MPEP § 1302.04).

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:

  • 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.
  • 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.