USPTO Examiner GONZALES VINCENT - Art Unit 2124

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19376307Curation And Provision Of Digital ContentOctober 2025March 2026Allow400NoNo
19079354INTERACTIVE DIGITAL LEGACY SYSTEM AND METHODMarch 2025November 2025Abandon810NoNo
19042498Curation And Provision Of Digital ContentJanuary 2025September 2025Allow720NoNo
19003490DIFFUSION MODEL FOR GENERATIVE PROTEIN DESIGNDecember 2024August 2025Allow720NoNo
19000713SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PARALLEL EXPLORATION OF A HYPERPARAMETER SEARCH SPACEDecember 2024February 2025Allow200NoNo
18973037APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR VALIDATING LABELED DATA GENERATED BY A PREDICTION GENERATORDecember 2024June 2025Allow710YesNo
18894703Systems and Methods for Using an Artificial Intelligence Decision Engine to Extend the Lifespan of BatteriesSeptember 2024March 2025Allow610YesNo
18751969Curation And Provision Of Digital ContentJune 2024March 2025Allow820NoNo
18669259ACTION SUGGESTIONS FOR USER-SELECTED CONTENTMay 2024August 2025Allow1510NoNo
18652132ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EVENT CLASSIFICATION AND RESPONSEMay 2024March 2026Abandon2360YesNo
18643691SELECTING A NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR A SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING PROBLEMApril 2024May 2025Allow1300NoNo
18623923FUSION MODEL TRAINING USING DISTANCE METRICSApril 2024March 2026Allow2320YesNo
18610727AUTOMATED MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMMarch 2024December 2025Allow2100NoNo
18586893APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR CONDITIONING RAW DATA BASED ON TEMPORAL INTERPOLATIONS TO GENERATE OPTIMAL EXTRAPOLATIONS OF AN ENTITYFebruary 2024August 2024Allow610YesNo
18582529SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING GAIT, STABILITY, AND/OR BALANCE OF A USERFebruary 2024February 2025Allow1210YesNo
18437882Intelligent Dealership Recommendation EngineFebruary 2024April 2025Allow1410YesNo
18566999INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUMDecember 2023July 2025Allow1910NoNo
18244171MIXTURE OF EXPERTS NEURAL NETWORKSSeptember 2023April 2024Allow720YesNo
18242649MACHINE LEARNING BASED APPROACH FOR IDENTIFICATION OF EXTREMELY RARE EVENTS IN HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SPACESeptember 2023May 2025Allow2020YesNo
18459030Pre-Publication Assessment of Digital ContentAugust 2023October 2025Allow2510YesNo
18222534PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS SYSTEMS AND METHODSJuly 2023September 2024Allow1410NoNo
18221573Curation And Provision Of Digital ContentJuly 2023May 2024Allow1020NoNo
18207861Unsupervised Machine Learning System to Automate Functions On a Graph StructureJune 2023September 2025Allow2710NoNo
18203537INTERACTIVE TEMPLATE FOR MULTIMODAL CONTENT GENERATIONMay 2023March 2024Allow920YesNo
18309438PREDICTING OPTIMAL PARAMETERS FOR PHYSICAL DESIGN SYNTHESISApril 2023January 2026Allow3300NoNo
18184220MACHINE LEARNING METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CHARACTERIZING CORN GROWTH EFFICIENCYMarch 2023July 2024Allow1630YesNo
18116636DISTRIBUTED MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURE WITH HYBRID DATA NORMALIZATION, PROOF OF LINEAGE AND DATA INTEGRITYMarch 2023March 2024Allow1220NoNo
18168016SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPACT AND EFFICIENT SPARSE NEURAL NETWORKSFebruary 2023December 2024Allow2210NoNo
18099530SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES UTILIZING CONTINUOUS FEDERATED LEARNING WITH A DISTRIBUTED DATA GENERATIVE MODELJanuary 2023October 2025Allow3300YesNo
18004021CALIBRATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMDecember 2022September 2023Allow810NoNo
18085803SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DATA PREPROCESSING AND AUGMENTATION FOR NEURAL NETWORK CLIMATE FORECASTING MODELSDecember 2022January 2025Allow2530NoNo
18063380Optimizing Machine Learning Based On Embedding Smart Data DriftDecember 2022May 2023Allow500NoNo
18077184LEARNING IN TIME VARYING, DISSIPATIVE ELECTRICAL NETWORKSDecember 2022June 2024Allow1810NoNo
18075876Resource-Efficient Training of a Sequence-Tagging ModelDecember 2022August 2025Allow3300NoNo
18074815Self Learning Machine Learning Transaction Scores Adjustment via Normalization Thereof Accounting for Underlying Transaction Score Bases Relating to an Occurrence of Fraud in a TransactionDecember 2022April 2023Allow400NoNo
17925576MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATION METHOD, DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMNovember 2022February 2026Abandon3910NoNo
17972832HARDWARE IMPLEMENTED POINT TO POINT COMMUNICATION PRIMITIVES FOR MACHINE LEARNINGOctober 2022March 2025Allow2910NoNo
17967595Systems and Methods for Simulating a Complex Reinforcement Learning EnvironmentOctober 2022February 2025Allow2820YesNo
17943722BEHAVIORAL PREDICTION AND BOUNDARY SETTINGS, CONTROL AND SAFETY ASSURANCE OF ML & AI SYSTEMSSeptember 2022March 2025Allow3010NoNo
17877635METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING ITEM CODING MODELJuly 2022May 2023Allow910NoNo
17815161METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR EXPLAINING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNINGJuly 2022November 2025Allow3920YesNo
17847361Feature Storage ManagerJune 2022September 2023Allow1520YesNo
17807397COMPUTING ROBUST POLICIES IN OFFLINE REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGJune 2022March 2026Allow4510YesNo
17751689FEATURE SELECTION METHODMay 2022January 2026Allow4420YesNo
17663417SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEDICAL IMAGINGMay 2022December 2025Allow4310NoNo
17739699MACHINE LEARNING METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CHARACTERIZING CORN GROWTH EFFICIENCYMay 2022October 2022Allow610NoNo
17661567EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF EXTREME INPUTS FOR REAL-TIME PREDICTION OF FUTURE EVENTSMay 2022October 2025Allow4120YesNo
17660911SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DEPLOYING REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGApril 2022January 2025Allow3330YesNo
17771796SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING GAIT, STABILITY, AND/OR BALANCE OF A USERApril 2022November 2023Allow1910YesNo
17717664SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A RECURSIVE CORTICAL NETWORKApril 2022February 2024Abandon2210NoNo
17703205EMBEDDING DRIFT IN A MACHINE LEARNING MODELMarch 2022November 2022Allow710YesNo
17687827Self Learning Machine Learning Transaction Scores Adjustment via Normalization Thereof Accounting for Underlying Transaction Score BasesMarch 2022August 2022Allow610YesNo
17685335LEARNING IN TIME VARYING, DISSIPATIVE ELECTRICAL NETWORKSMarch 2022September 2022Allow710YesNo
17650573REINFORCEMENT LEARNING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR INTERVENTION RECOMMENDATIONFebruary 2022May 2025Allow3900NoNo
17666388LABELING/NAMES OF THEMESFebruary 2022December 2023Allow2210YesNo
17665025TECHNOLOGIES FOR DISTRIBUTING GRADIENT DESCENT COMPUTATION IN A HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-ACCESS EDGE COMPUTING (MEC) NETWORKSFebruary 2022February 2024Allow2410NoNo
17575799Batch Processing In A Neural Network ProcessorJanuary 2022December 2024Allow3510YesNo
17565411FAIR SELECTIVE CLASSIFICATION VIA A VARIATIONAL MUTUAL INFORMATION UPPER BOUND FOR IMPOSING SUFFICIENCYDecember 2021November 2025Allow4720YesNo
17621378SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCODING A DEEP NEURAL NETWORKDecember 2021December 2025Allow4820NoNo
17557303DATABASE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT USING PREDICTIVE MODELSDecember 2021August 2025Allow4410YesNo
17557732Machine Learning Systems and Methods for Assessing Medical Interventions for Utilization ReviewDecember 2021October 2023Abandon2110NoNo
17554281AUTOMATED TRENDING INPUT RECOGNITION AND ASSIMILATION IN FORECAST MODELINGDecember 2021March 2022Allow300NoNo
17540421DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ANOMALY DETECTORDecember 2021April 2024Allow2810YesNo
17525602BEHAVIORAL PREDICTION AND BOUNDARY SETTINGS, CONTROL AND SAFETY ASSURANCE OF ML & AI SYSTEMSNovember 2021May 2022Allow710NoNo
17509522SCHEDULING NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSINGOctober 2021November 2024Allow3620YesNo
17507427EVENT CONDITION DETECTIONOctober 2021March 2025Allow4140NoNo
17497121SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DOMAIN-AWARE CLASSIFICATION OF UNLABELED DATAOctober 2021December 2025Allow5020YesNo
17494405METHODS AND SERVERS FOR DETERMINING METRIC-SPECIFIC THRESHOLDS TO BE USED WITH A PLURALITY OF NESTED METRICS FOR BINARY CLASSIFICATION OF A DIGITAL OBJECTOctober 2021February 2025Allow4100NoNo
17493091METHOD FOR MITIGATING ERROR OF QUANTUM CIRCUIT AND APPARATUS THEREOFOctober 2021April 2025Allow4210NoNo
17493322DEEP LEARNING DOCUMENT GENERATION FROM CONVERSATION TRANSCRIPTSOctober 2021September 2025Allow4720YesNo
17405794Intelligent Dealership Recommendation EngineAugust 2021November 2023Allow2720YesNo
17389978PRESERVATION OF CAUSAL INFORMATION FOR MACHINE LEARNINGJuly 2021March 2024Allow3220YesNo
17365650SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES UTILIZING CONTINUOUS FEDERATED LEARNING WITH A DISTRIBUTED DATA GENERATIVE MODELJuly 2021July 2025Allow4940YesYes
17357886RADIATION THERAPY PLANNING USING INTEGRATED MODELJune 2021January 2026Abandon5540YesYes
17342825SEMI-SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMJune 2021October 2021Allow400NoNo
17333385SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING RANDOM WALKS ON KNOWLEDGE GRAPHSMay 2021February 2025Allow4510YesNo
17237654BIOMARKERS AND USES THEREOF FOR DIAGNOSING THE SILENT PHASE OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASEApril 2021December 2024Abandon4460YesYes
17230751Enhanced Disease Projections with MobilityApril 2021April 2025Abandon4810NoNo
17227832Self Learning Machine Learning Transaction Scores Adjustment via Normalization ThereofApril 2021October 2021Allow610NoNo
17226256Batch Processing In A Neural Network ProcessorApril 2021September 2021Allow510NoNo
17280902METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CREATING AND TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELSMarch 2021October 2024Allow4300NoNo
17204541METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REAL-TIME RESOLUTION OF ERRORS THAT ARE DETECTED BY MULTIVARIATE MACHINE LEARNING MODELS BETWEEN USERS USING UNIVARIATE RESPONSESMarch 2021August 2025Allow5330YesNo
17202537METHOD FOR NEAR REAL-TIME SLEEP DETECTION IN A WEARABLE DEVICE BASED ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKMarch 2021January 2026Abandon5840YesNo
17197318PREPROCESSING OF TIME SERIES DATA AUTOMATICALLY FOR BETTER AIMarch 2021January 2026Abandon5840YesNo
17186893AUTOMATED TRAINING AND SELECTION OF MODELS FOR DOCUMENT ANALYSISFebruary 2021April 2024Allow3820YesNo
17270862LEARNING DATA GENERATION DEVICE, LEARNING DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND PROGRAMFebruary 2021June 2024Allow3910NoNo
17169147METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FACILITATING ANALYSIS OF A MODELFebruary 2021January 2022Abandon1220NoNo
17167113IDENTIFYING A FINDING IN A DATASET USING A MACHINE LEARNING MODEL ENSEMBLEFebruary 2021December 2024Allow4710NoNo
17159255SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING TRAINING PARAMETERS FOR DIALOG GENERATIONJanuary 2021January 2024Allow3610YesNo
17156517GENERATING BEHAVIORAL PROFILESJanuary 2021September 2025Allow5520NoNo
17248373NEUROMORPHIC ARCHITECTUREJanuary 2021August 2024Allow4310NoNo
17154493SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING OPERATIONS ON MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONSJanuary 2021May 2021Allow300NoNo
17257876METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMIC SERVICE PERFORMANCE PREDICTION USING TRANSFER LEARNINGJanuary 2021November 2024Abandon4710NoNo
17138685COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR OPERATING THE MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A TIME SERIESDecember 2020February 2025Allow5020NoYes
17134936PREFETCHING WEIGHTS FOR USE IN A NEURAL NETWORK PROCESSORDecember 2020August 2023Allow3210YesNo
16973707Distributed Processing System and Distributed Processing MethodDecember 2020August 2023Allow3200NoNo
17113198Method and Device For TestingDecember 2020December 2024Abandon4820NoNo
17114226METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGDecember 2020December 2021Allow1210YesNo
17113070SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING NETWORK INTEGRITY FOR INCREMENTALLY TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS AT EDGE DEVICES OF A PEER TO PEER NETWORKDecember 2020April 2024Allow4100NoNo
17102471Creating and Using Learning Models to Identify Botnet TrafficNovember 2020April 2025Allow5230YesNo

Appeals Overview

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

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
12
Examiner Affirmed
10
(83.3%)
Examiner Reversed
2
(16.7%)
Reversal Percentile
28.0%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 16.7% 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
28
Allowed After Appeal Filing
5
(17.9%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
23
(82.1%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
21.7%
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, 17.9% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is less effective here than in most other areas.

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 GONZALES, VINCENT - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner GONZALES, VINCENT works in Art Unit 2124 and has examined 327 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 83.5%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 42 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner GONZALES, VINCENT's allowance rate of 83.5% places them in the 58% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by GONZALES, VINCENT receive 2.15 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 58% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues a slightly above-average number of office actions.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by GONZALES, VINCENT is 42 months. This places the examiner in the 18% 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 +8.8% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by GONZALES, VINCENT. This interview benefit is in the 40% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide a below-average benefit with this examiner.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 27.7% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 49% 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 38.0% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 58% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows above-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. If your amendments clearly overcome the rejections and do not raise new issues, consider filing after-final amendments before resorting to an RCE.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 66.7% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 53% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. If you have strong arguments, a PAC request may result in favorable reconsideration.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 55.6% of appeals filed. This is in the 27% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 40.0% 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, 17.4% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 9% 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 0.0% 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:

  • 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

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