USPTO Examiner SIEGER LEONARD A - Art Unit 2126

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19278730ADAPTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR MANAGING AND SCHEDULING CROSS-DOMAIN HETEROGENEOUS STORAGE CLUSTERSJuly 2025November 2025Allow410NoNo
18437888METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR BOUNDED LINEAR COMPUTATION OUTPUTSFebruary 2024November 2025Abandon2130YesNo
18429667METHOD FOR PARAMETER ADJUSTMENT OF REINFORCEMENT LEARNING ALGORITHMFebruary 2024February 2025Abandon1210NoNo
18537689Activation Based Dynamic Network PruningDecember 2023August 2025Allow2040YesNo
18315422Systems and Methods for Spatial Graph Convolutions with Applications to Drug Discovery and Molecular SimulationMay 2023December 2024Allow1930YesNo
18095925GENERATING NEURAL NETWORK OUTPUTS BY ENRICHING LATENT EMBEDDINGS USING SELF-ATTENTION AND CROSS-ATTENTION OPERATIONSJanuary 2023September 2025Allow3230YesNo
17830286BLACK-BOX OPTIMIZATION USING NEURAL NETWORKSJune 2022January 2024Allow2010YesNo
17451608ADAPTABLE DATASET DISTILLATION FOR HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTSOctober 2021May 2025Allow4320NoNo
17499945GRADIENT-BASED AUTO-TUNING FOR MACHINE LEARNING AND DEEP LEARNING MODELSOctober 2021March 2023Allow1710YesNo
17352912INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, REGRESSION MODEL GENERATION METHOD, AND REGRESSION MODEL GENERATION PROGRAM PRODUCTJune 2021October 2025Abandon5220YesNo
17229275IMAGE CLASSIFICATION EXPLANATION BY GENERATING BOUNDARY CROSSING EXAMPLES WITH REMOVED FEATURES VIA FILTER SUPPRESSIONApril 2021July 2025Allow5120NoNo
17216475INTERACTIVE MACHINE LEARNING OPTIMIZATIONMarch 2021December 2025Allow5740YesNo
17206326SILICON ELECTRON SPIN TYPE MASSIVELY PARALLEL QUANTUM COMPUTERMarch 2021June 2025Abandon5120NoNo
17274922AUTOMATIC PLANNER, OPERATION ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUMMarch 2021December 2025Abandon5730YesNo
17189993METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR UPDATING MACHINE LEARNING MODELMarch 2021December 2025Abandon5740YesNo
17147617MODEL TRAINING APPARATUS AND METHODJanuary 2021December 2025Abandon6030NoNo
17147035KNOWLEDGE GRAPH ALIGNMENT WITH ENTITY EXPANSION POLICY NETWORKJanuary 2021December 2025Abandon5940YesNo
17059247MULTI-OBJECTIVE DISTRIBUTIONAL REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR LARGE-SCALE ORDER DISPATCHINGNovember 2020August 2024Abandon4510NoNo
17105170Training and Using a Two Stage Machine Learning Model to Predict an Outcome of a Prospective TransactionNovember 2020January 2025Allow5030YesNo
17058624NEURAL ARCHITECTURE SEARCH VIA SIMILARITY-BASED OPERATOR RANKINGNovember 2020April 2025Allow5340YesNo
17056640SAMPLE-EFFICIENT REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGNovember 2020November 2025Allow6030YesNo
17089764INCREMENTAL LEARNING SYSTEM WITH SELECTIVE WEIGHT UPDATESNovember 2020July 2025Allow5740YesNo
17083536SEPARATION MAXIMIZATION TECHNIQUE FOR ANOMALY SCORES TO COMPARE ANOMALY DETECTION MODELSOctober 2020March 2025Abandon5220YesYes
17077077DATA PREDICTION METHOD BASED ON GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORK AND APPARATUS IMPLEMENTING THE SAME METHODOctober 2020April 2024Abandon4220YesNo
17076564System and Method for Interest-focused Collaborative Machine LearningOctober 2020August 2025Abandon5840NoNo
17037046SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENFORCING CONSTRAINTS TO PREDICTIONSSeptember 2020November 2024Abandon5020NoNo
17025440SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AT LEAST ONE OCCUPANT WITHIN A VEHICLE USING A PLURALITY OF CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKSSeptember 2020June 2024Abandon4510NoNo
17020299AUTOMATED ANALYSIS GENERATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMSeptember 2020August 2024Abandon4720YesNo
16976134Methods and Devices for Chunk Based IoT Service InspectionAugust 2020July 2024Abandon4610NoNo
17002650REINFORCEMENT LEARNING BASED CONTROL OF IMITATIVE POLICIES FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVINGAugust 2020November 2025Allow6060YesNo
16996348VARIATIONAL AUTO ENCODER FOR MIXED DATA TYPESAugust 2020November 2025Abandon6040YesNo
16996322SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY FOR DATA CLASSIFICATION, LEARNING AND TRANSFERAugust 2020April 2024Abandon4410NoNo
16966715OPTIMIZATION DEVICE, OPTIMIZATION METHOD, AND OPTIMIZATION PROGRAMJuly 2020December 2023Abandon4010NoNo
16935313GENERALIZED EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION FOR SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNINGJuly 2020October 2024Allow5130YesNo
16881999METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FAIR AND EFFICIENT FEDERATED LEARNINGMay 2020April 2025Abandon5940YesNo
16861177RECOMMENDING SCRIPTS FOR CONSTRUCTING MACHINE LEARNING MODELSApril 2020December 2025Abandon6060YesNo
16844758SCALABLE PIPELINE FOR LOCAL ANCESTRY INFERENCEApril 2020November 2025Allow6040YesNo
16649972APPLICATION CLEANING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEMarch 2020July 2023Abandon4010NoNo
16825199ITERATIVE SPATIAL GRAPH GENERATIONMarch 2020April 2025Abandon6040YesNo
16786097TRAINING A CHARACTER THROUGH INTERACTIONSFebruary 2020April 2024Allow5030YesNo
16721883INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CHIP APPARATUSDecember 2019March 2025Abandon6020NoYes
16707694Adaptive learning system utilizing reinforcement learning to tune hyperparameters in machine learning techniquesDecember 2019February 2024Abandon5040YesNo
16661866SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IMPROVE ACCURACY OF REGRESSION MODELS TRAINED WITH IMBALANCED DATAOctober 2019March 2023Allow4120YesNo
16659981System and Method for Configuration and Resource Aware Machine Learning Model SwitchingOctober 2019October 2025Abandon6080YesNo
16601547EVALUATING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING POLICIESOctober 2019April 2022Allow3010YesNo
16592115NEURAL TAXONOMY EXPANDEROctober 2019January 2025Allow6030NoYes
16589314Bias Identification in Cognitive Computing SystemsOctober 2019January 2024Allow5220YesYes
16584535LEARNING RESULT OUTPUT APPARATUS AND LEARNING RESULT OUTPUT PROGRAMSeptember 2019December 2025Abandon6060YesNo
16583420PLOT EVALUATION FOR FARM PERFORMANCESeptember 2019June 2023Abandon4520NoNo
16574200SATELLITE THREAT MITIGATION BY APPLICATION OF REINFORCEMENT MACHINE LEARNING IN PHYSICS BASED SPACE SIMULATIONSeptember 2019January 2024Abandon5220YesNo
16494198LEARNING TREE OUTPUT NODE SELECTION USING A MEASURE OF NODE RELIABILITYSeptember 2019August 2023Allow4720YesYes
16564614COMPUTER, METHOD OF GENERATING LEARNING DATA, AND COMPUTER SYSTEMSeptember 2019October 2022Abandon3720NoNo
16564400MACHINE LEARNING APPARATUS AND METHOD BASED ON MULTI-FEATURE EXTRACTION AND TRANSFER LEARNING, AND LEAK DETECTION APPARATUS USING THE SAMESeptember 2019October 2022Abandon3720NoNo
16561678APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USING BAYESIAN PROGRAM LEARNING FOR EFFICIENT AND RELIABLE KNOWLEDGE REASONINGSeptember 2019October 2022Abandon3720NoNo
16560842MANIFOLD-ANOMALY DETECTION WITH AXIS PARALLEL EXPLANATIONSSeptember 2019November 2023Allow5030YesNo
16558444AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING BASED ON MACHINE LEARNINGSeptember 2019April 2024Abandon5560YesNo
16545245LEARNING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF GRADIENT BOOSTED DECISION TREESAugust 2019September 2022Allow3730YesNo
16538409METHODS AND APPARATUS TO SELF-GENERATE A MULTIPLE-OUTPUT ENSEMBLE MODEL DEFENSE AGAINST ADVERSARIAL ATTACKSAugust 2019June 2024Abandon5840YesNo
16478556CLASSIFIER TRAININGJuly 2019March 2025Abandon6060YesYes
16458924Dynamic Data Selection for a Machine Learning ModelJuly 2019October 2025Allow6060YesYes
16453455SKILL GENERATING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICEJune 2019July 2022Abandon3620YesNo
16445807DESIGN OF CUSTOMIZABLE MACHINE LEARNING SERVICESJune 2019August 2023Abandon5020YesYes
16443334NEXT CALL CONTACT PREDICTIONJune 2019December 2023Abandon5440NoNo
16438500EFFICIENT VERIFICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATIONSJune 2019November 2022Allow4110NoNo
16435213REGULARIZATION OF RECURRENT MACHINE-LEARNED ARCHITECTURES WITH ENCODER, DECODER, AND PRIOR DISTRIBUTIONJune 2019August 2024Allow6060YesYes
16411098QUANTIZATION METHOD OF IMPROVING THE MODEL INFERENCE ACCURACYMay 2019April 2025Abandon6060YesNo
16407537Method, Apparatus and Computer Program for Operating a Machine Learning SystemMay 2019May 2022Abandon3620NoNo
16405329ELASTIC TRAINING OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS VIA RE-PARTITIONING BASED ON FEEDBACK FROM THE TRAINING ALGORITHMMay 2019September 2023Allow5230YesNo
16404368SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING ADVERSE-ACTION REPORTS FOR ADVERSE CREDIT-APPLICATION DETERMINATIONSMay 2019March 2024Abandon5830NoYes
16398460GENERATING ASSET LEVEL CLASSIFICATION RULES USING MACHINE LEARNINGApril 2019January 2024Abandon5660YesNo
16395789AUTOMATED PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS AND MODIFICATION OF USER INTERACTION FEATURES USING MULTIPLE CLASSIFICATION MODELSApril 2019August 2021Allow2810NoNo
16395008SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING BIOLOGICALLY BASED ENTERPRISE DATA GENOME TO PREDICT AND RECOMMEND ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCEApril 2019February 2023Abandon4510NoNo
16392669SMART DEFAULT THRESHOLD VALUES IN CONTINUOUS LEARNINGApril 2019December 2023Abandon5640YesNo
16383437DETERMINING INTENT FROM MULTIMODAL CONTENT EMBEDDED IN A COMMON GEOMETRIC SPACEApril 2019October 2025Abandon6040YesYes
16376315Deep Learning Based Test Compression AnalyzerApril 2019May 2022Abandon3820NoNo
16367480DEEP LEARNING DATA MANIPULATION FOR MULTI-VARIABLE DATA PROVIDERSMarch 2019March 2024Abandon6040YesNo
16336114Systems and Methods for Generating, Deploying, Discovering, and Managing Machine Learning Model PackagesMarch 2019February 2025Abandon60100YesNo
16358799INTELLIGENT PROBLEM SOLVING USING VISUAL INPUTMarch 2019December 2025Abandon60100YesNo
16358076METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING STRUCTURED RELATIONS BETWEEN WORDSMarch 2019October 2022Abandon4320NoNo
16351689EGO MOTION ESTIMATION BASED ON CONSECUTIVE TIME FRAMES INPUT TO MACHINE LEARNING MODELMarch 2019July 2025Allow6040YesYes
16299525AUTOMATION OF DATA ANALYTICS IN AN INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) PLATFORMMarch 2019October 2025Abandon6080YesNo
16295048METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMPUTING ESTIMATION OUTPUT DATAMarch 2019June 2023Abandon5140YesNo
16295850COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM, LEARNING METHOD, AND LEARNING DEVICEMarch 2019December 2021Abandon3410NoNo
16293586Systems and Methods for Spatial Graph Convolutions with Applications to Drug Discovery and Molecular SimulationMarch 2019March 2023Allow4830YesNo
16330351INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND PROGRAMMarch 2019April 2024Abandon6060YesNo
16290773SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MAXIMIZING A RECEPTIVITY SCORE OF USER(S) TO A MEDIAMarch 2019July 2023Abandon5340NoNo
16288217Constrained Classification and Ranking via QuantilesFebruary 2019April 2022Allow3820YesYes
16286894METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAINING CLASSIFICATION MODEL, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING DATAFebruary 2019April 2022Allow3830YesNo
16328207REWARD AUGMENTED MODEL TRAININGFebruary 2019January 2023Abandon4740YesNo
16262010MAPPING AND QUANTIFICATION OF INFLUENCE OF NEURAL NETWORK FEATURES FOR EXPLAINABLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEJanuary 2019February 2024Abandon6040YesNo
16254952ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CONTENT INFORMATION, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUMJanuary 2019June 2023Abandon5250NoNo
16237202NEURAL NETWORK ACTIVATION COMPRESSION WITH OUTLIER BLOCK FLOATING-POINTDecember 2018March 2024Allow6060YesNo
16236570TEXT PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE BASED ON AMBIGUOUS ENTITY WORDSDecember 2018July 2022Allow4240YesNo
16211138EXECUTION OF TRAINED NEURAL NETWORKS USING A DATABASE SYSTEMDecember 2018November 2025Allow6070YesNo
16205329HIERARCHICAL DYNAMIC DEPLOYMENT OF AI MODELNovember 2018December 2023Abandon6060YesNo
16205116MACHINE LEARNING METHODS FOR DETECTION OF FRAUD-RELATED EVENTSNovember 2018July 2023Abandon5620NoNo
16205218APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING IMPACT FACTOR FOR AN OPERATING ENVIRONMENTNovember 2018November 2022Abandon4820NoNo
16194877VISUAL ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING MISSING LINKS IN BIPARTITE NETWORKSNovember 2018July 2021Allow3210YesNo
16125818ORGANIC LEARNINGSeptember 2018July 2022Abandon4620YesNo
16113056METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMALLY PROVIDING OUTPUT FOR INPUTAugust 2018January 2022Abandon4110NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SIEGER, LEONARD A.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
11
Examiner Affirmed
6
(54.5%)
Examiner Reversed
5
(45.5%)
Reversal Percentile
67.9%
Higher than average

What This Means

With a 45.5% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage of cases. This reversal rate is above the USPTO average, indicating that appeals have better success here than typical.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
17
Allowed After Appeal Filing
6
(35.3%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
11
(64.7%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
58.0%
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, 35.3% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is above the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal can be an effective strategy for prompting reconsideration.

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 SIEGER, LEONARD A - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner SIEGER, LEONARD A works in Art Unit 2126 and has examined 116 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 34.5%, this examiner allows applications at a lower rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 53 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner SIEGER, LEONARD A's allowance rate of 34.5% places them in the 5% 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 SIEGER, LEONARD A receive 3.61 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 95% 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 SIEGER, LEONARD A is 53 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 +22.1% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SIEGER, LEONARD A. This interview benefit is in the 67% 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, 10.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 5% 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 9.8% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 10% 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, 0.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 5% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show limited success with this examiner compared to others. While still worth considering, be prepared to proceed with a full appeal brief if the PAC does not result in favorable action.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 50.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 15% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 9.1% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner rarely withdraws rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. If you file an appeal, be prepared to fully prosecute it to a PTAB decision. Per MPEP § 1207, the examiner will prepare an Examiner's Answer maintaining the rejections.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 100.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 90% 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.
  • 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.

Limitation of Liability: Under no circumstances will IronCrow AI be liable for any outcome, decision, or action resulting from your reliance on the statistics, analysis, or recommendations presented in this report. Past prosecution patterns do not guarantee future results.

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.