USPTO Examiner YAARY MICHAEL D - Art Unit 2151

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19269109DIGITAL HARDWARE CIRCUIT FOR EFFICIENT REDUCTION OPERATIONS USING PARALLEL MATRIX COMPARISONJuly 2025November 2025Allow400NoNo
19174371SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREPROCESSING AND CONDITIONING COSMIC RAY DATA FOR RANDOMNESS GENERATIONApril 2025October 2025Allow610NoNo
19090153SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREPROCESSING AND CONDITIONING COSMIC RAY DATA FOR RANDOMNESS GENERATIONMarch 2025October 2025Allow710NoNo
19050151MULTI-POWER FLOW INTEGRATED PARALLEL QUANTUM COMPUTING METHOD, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM OF POWER SYSTEMFebruary 2025October 2025Allow810NoNo
19031258CURVATURE-BASED SIGNAL SEGMENTATION METHOD FOR SOLAR-BLIND ULTRAVIOLET PHOTODETECTORSJanuary 2025October 2025Allow910NoNo
19021645PROCESSING WITH COMPACT ARITHMETIC PROCESSING ELEMENTJanuary 2025July 2025Allow620NoNo
19021660PROCESSING WITH COMPACT ARITHMETIC PROCESSING ELEMENTJanuary 2025October 2025Allow920NoNo
18767411SYSTOLIC ARRAY INCLUDING FUSED MULTIPLY ACCUMULATE WITH EFFICIENT PRENORMALIZATION AND EXTENDED DYNAMIC RANGEJuly 2024February 2026Allow1910NoNo
18016335RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION BASED UPON A RANDOM BIT SOURCING FROM ONE OR MORE REGISTERS OF A COMPUTERJanuary 2023October 2025Allow3310NoNo
17790833COMPLEX MULTIPLICATION CIRCUITJuly 2022March 2026Allow4400NoNo
17789787SECURE SQUARE ROOT COMPUTATION SYSTEM, SECURE NORMALIZATION SYSTEM, METHODS THEREFOR, SECURE COMPUTATION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAMJune 2022January 2026Allow4310YesNo
17771143INFORMATION PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF DESIGNING INFORMATION PROCESSING CIRCUITApril 2022March 2026Allow4710NoNo
17700239NON-RECTANGULAR MATRIX COMPUTATIONS AND DATA PATTERN PROCESSING USING TENSOR CORESMarch 2022November 2025Allow4400NoNo
17696448FLOATING-POINT CONVERSION WITH DENORMALIZATIONMarch 2022January 2026Allow4610YesNo
17655026IN-MEMORY RESONATOR NETWORK FOR FACTORIZING HYPERVECTORSMarch 2022December 2025Allow4510NoNo
17693406MEMORY DEVICE WITH IN-MEMORY COMPUTING ARCHITECTURE AND COMPUTING METHOD THEREOFMarch 2022March 2026Allow4810NoNo
17686147COMPUTE-IN-MEMORY SYSTEMS AND METHODS WITH CONFIGURABLE INPUT AND SUMMING UNITSMarch 2022February 2026Allow4710NoNo
17678339COMPUTING DEVICE WITH PIXEL UNSHUFFLE AND PIXEL SHUFFLE OPERATIONS AND COMPUTING METHOD THEREFORFebruary 2022January 2026Allow4610NoNo
17591114DEVICE AND METHOD WITH MULTIDIMENSIONAL VECTOR NEURAL NETWORKFebruary 2022January 2026Allow4710YesNo
17630621INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS WHICH OBTAINS SUBMATRICES BASED ON AN INPUT SPARSE MATRIXJanuary 2022March 2026Allow4920NoNo
17584041QUANTUM PHASE ESTIMATION OF MULTIPLE EIGENVALUESJanuary 2022January 2026Allow4810NoNo
17579489PROCESSING COMPONENT THAT INCLUDES AN ARITHMETIC AND LOGIC UNIT (ALU), DATA PROCESSING METHOD APPLIED TO THE PROCESSING COMPONENT, AND RELATED DEVICEJanuary 2022February 2026Allow4810YesNo
17573720Method for synthesizing a product of Pauli rotationsJanuary 2022November 2025Allow4610NoNo
17543471NEURAL NETWORK INFERENCE CIRCUIT WITH PIECEWISE LINEAR ACTIVATION CIRCUITDecember 2021November 2025Allow4710NoNo
17530452SYSTEM AND METHOD TO ACCELERATE GRAPH FEATURE EXTRACTIONNovember 2021December 2025Allow4810YesNo
17528472BIAS SCALING FOR N-BIT CONSTRAINED HARDWARE ACCELERATIONNovember 2021November 2025Allow4810NoNo
17521846WEIGHT-SPARSE NEURAL PROCESSING UNIT WITH MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ROUTING OF NON-ZERO VALUESNovember 2021December 2025Allow4910NoNo
17510217COMPUTATION UNIT, RELATED APPARATUS, AND METHODOctober 2021October 2025Allow4810NoNo
17439902DIGITAL FILTER DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD FOR DIGITAL FILTER DEVICE, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAMSeptember 2021July 2025Allow4610NoNo
17465896INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE SELECTING FROM AMONG PLURAL ARITHMETIC OPERATION PROGRAMS DIFFERING FROM EACH OTHER WITH RESPECT TO AN ORDER OF OPERATIONS FOR SOLVING A SAME NUMERICAL FORMULA, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2021December 2025Allow5210NoNo
17399844MULTIPLE OPERATION CIRCUITS, MULTIPLICATION/ACCUMULATION OPERATORS HAVING THE MULTIPLE OPERATION CIRCUITS, AND PROCESSING-IN-MEMORY DEVICES HAVING THE MULTIPLE OPERATION CIRCUITSAugust 2021December 2025Allow5220NoNo
17307072METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DEEP LEARNING OPERATIONSMay 2021November 2025Allow5420YesNo
17205433NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTING DEVICE INCLUDING ON-DEVICE QUANTIZER, OPERATING METHOD OF NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTING DEVICE, AND COMPUTING DEVICE INCLUDING NEURAL NETWORK COMPUTING DEVICEMarch 2021November 2025Allow5610NoNo
16577736ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNIT FOR SINGLE-CYCLE FUSION OPERATIONSSeptember 2019May 2020Allow720NoNo
16564788OPTIMIZATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPTIMIZATION DEVICESeptember 2019May 2021Allow2000NoNo
16560245POWER SERIES TRUNCATION USING CONSTANT TABLES FOR FUNCTION INTERPOLATION IN TRANSCENDENTAL FUNCTIONSSeptember 2019January 2020Allow510NoNo
16521576Method and system for elastic precision enhancement using dynamic shifting in neural networksJuly 2019June 2021Allow2300NoNo
16458187PROCESSOR FOR CALCULATING MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS IN PARALLELJune 2019April 2021Abandon2210NoNo
16426581SYSTEM, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR DIFFERENTIATED AND PARTIAL FEATURE UPDATE IN ALTERNATING LEAST SQUAREMay 2019November 2019Allow620NoNo
16418990TRUE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR WITH STABLE NODE VOLTAGEMay 2019January 2021Allow2000NoNo
16414701Circuit and Method for Calculating Non-Linear Functions of Floating-Point NumbersMay 2019April 2021Allow2310NoNo
16295152AUGMENTING MODEL-TO-MODEL COUPLING WITH HIGH-FREQUENCY OBSERVATIONSMarch 2019March 2021Allow2410YesNo
16276745HIGHER ACCURACY OF NON-VOLATILE MEMORY-BASED VECTOR MULTIPLICATIONFebruary 2019November 2019Allow910NoNo
16247922TILED COMPRESSED SPARSE MATRIX FORMATJanuary 2019January 2026Allow6070YesYes
16202310NEGATIVE OPERAND COMPATIBLE CHARGE-SCALING SUBTRACTOR CIRCUITNovember 2018March 2020Allow1600NoNo
16145311CIRCUIT FOR ADDITION OF MULTIPLE BINARY NUMBERSSeptember 2018May 2019Allow820NoNo
16140579ENTROPY SERVER FOR RANDOM NUMBER GENERATIONSeptember 2018February 2021Allow2930YesNo
16133845GENERATING PSEUDO-RANDOM NUMBERS USING CELLULAR AUTOMATASeptember 2018January 2020Allow1610NoNo
16041337SYSTEM, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR DIFFERENTIATED AND PARTIAL FEATURE UPDATE IN ALTERNATING LEAST SQUAREJuly 2018February 2019Allow720NoNo
16038702Random Telegraph Noise Native Device for True Random Number Generator and Noise InjectionJuly 2018May 2019Allow1020NoNo
16065959INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD TO DETERMINE CORRELATION OF DATAJune 2018December 2019Allow1810NoNo
15842943Residue Prediction of Packed DataDecember 2017October 2020Allow3420NoNo
15659393METHOD FOR A STAGE OPTIMIZED HIGH SPEED ADDERJuly 2017February 2019Allow1910NoNo
15594854SOFT SENSOR DEVICE FOR ACQUIRING A STATE VARIABLE BY CALCULATION USING A PLURALITY OF PROCESSOR CORESMay 2017February 2019Allow2110NoNo
15519823ACTUALLY-MEASURED MARINE ENVIRONMENT DATA ASSIMILATION METHOD BASED ON SEQUENCE RECURSIVE FILTERING THREE-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONApril 2017March 2019Allow2310NoNo
15487366PROCESSOR COMPRISING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEMORY (3D-M) ARRAYApril 2017May 2020Allow3760NoNo
15405044DETECTION OF FAULT INJECTIONS IN A RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORJanuary 2017June 2017Allow510NoNo
15353353PROGRAMMABLE NEUROMORPHIC DEVICENovember 2016January 2019Allow2610NoNo
15224176PROCESSOR AND METHOD FOR OUTER PRODUCT ACCUMULATE OPERATIONSJuly 2016July 2018Allow2410YesNo
15198043INJECTING CPU TIME JITTER TO IMPROVE ENTROPY QUALITY FOR RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORJune 2016September 2017Allow1500NoNo
15151062SPLITABLE AND SCALABLE NORMALIZER FOR VECTOR DATAMay 2016April 2017Allow1120YesNo
15141018SYSTEM, METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR DIFFERENTIATED AND PARTIAL FEATURE UPDATE IN ALTERNATING LEAST SQUAREApril 2016July 2018Allow2620NoNo
15015803LOOKUP TABLE SHARING FOR MEMORY-BASED COMPUTINGFebruary 2016May 2017Allow1510YesNo
15014729LOOKUP TABLE SHARING FOR MEMORY-BASED COMPUTINGFebruary 2016August 2017Allow1820YesNo
15006088Excess-Fours Processing in Direct Digital Synthesizer ImplementationsJanuary 2016September 2016Allow810NoNo
149603588x8 BINARY DIGITAL MULTIPLIERDecember 2015April 2018Allow2820YesNo
14943254Round For Reround Mode In A Decimal Floating Point InstructionNovember 2015September 2016Allow1010NoNo
14855351EVENT-BASED SPATIAL TRANSFORMATIONSeptember 2015October 2017Allow2510YesNo
14839576Method and Apparatus for RandomizerAugust 2015August 2016Allow1210YesNo
14725523FLOATING-POINT CALCULATION APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND CALCULATION APPARATUSMay 2015April 2017Allow2300NoNo
14711350GENERATING PSEUDO-RANDOM NUMBERS USING CELLULAR AUTOMATAMay 2015May 2018Allow3620NoNo
14708431METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETERMINING AN INTERPOLATED COMPLEX VALUED SAMPLEMay 2015August 2017Allow2820YesNo
14623310ITERATIVE REFINEMENT APPARATUSFebruary 2015May 2017Allow2710NoNo
14483111RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR USING AN INCREMENTING FUNCTIONSeptember 2014June 2017Allow3310NoNo
14366129DEVICE FOR PERFORMING ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS OF MULTIVARIATE POLYNOMIALS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAMJune 2014February 2017Allow3210NoNo
14291942VECTORIZED GALOIS FIELD MULTIPLICATIONMay 2014July 2016Allow2610NoNo
14269527Method for Graph Based Processing of SignalsMay 2014November 2016Allow3020NoNo
14210966PIPELINED MODULAR REDUCTION AND DIVISIONMarch 2014August 2016Allow3010YesNo
14214049METHOD FOR A STAGE OPTIMIZED HIGH SPEED ADDERMarch 2014April 2017Allow3730NoNo
14127178SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR PERFORMING MATHEMATICAL OPERATIONSDecember 2013June 2016Allow3010NoNo
13976358UNIFIED COMPUTATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ITERATIVE MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION, EFFICIENT OVERFLOW DETECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGER DIVISION, AND TREE-BASED ADDITION SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SINGLE-CYCLE MULTIPLICATIONOctober 2013July 2017Allow4831YesNo
13936881SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING ATTRIBUTES FOR ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS WITH FIXED-POINT NUMBERSJuly 2013October 2016Allow3930YesNo
13918608METHOD FOR MONITORING THE OUTPUT OF A RANDOM GENERATORJune 2013October 2016Allow4020NoYes
13855474LINEAR PHASE FIR BIORTHOGONAL WAVELET FILTERS WITH COMPLEMENTARITY FOR IMAGE NOISE REDUCTIONApril 2013July 2016Allow3930YesNo
13853754Method And Apparatus For Processing Bit-Interleaved Data Traffic In A Communication NetworkMarch 2013March 2017Allow4840NoNo
11935371SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING LATCH CONTENTIONNovember 2007April 2011Allow4100NoNo
11837534METHOD FOR DEBUGGING A BUSINESS PROCESS FLOWAugust 2007June 2009Allow2220YesNo
11522039METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING INTERPROCEDURAL VULNERABILITY BY ANALYSIS OF SOURCE CODESeptember 2006June 2009Allow3320NoYes
11066717METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VERSION NEGOTIATION OF DISTRIBUTED OBJECTSFebruary 2005January 2009Allow4710NoNo
11049784SINE WAVE MULTIPLICATION CIRCUIT AND SINE WAVE MULTIPLICATION METHODFebruary 2005August 2009Allow5410NoNo
10965907METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING MULTIPLICATION IN FINITE FIELD GF(2N)October 2004January 2009Allow5110YesNo
10868186METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM SQUARING OPERATION IN FINITE FIELDJune 2004January 2009Allow5520YesNo
10853718METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TESTING EVALUATION MODULESMay 2004March 2011Allow6060YesNo
10832806FULL CMOS MIN-SUM ANALOG ITERATIVE DECODERSApril 2004September 2008Abandon5220NoNo
10827527METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING CODE FOR SCHEDULING THE EXECUTION OF BINARY CODEApril 2004December 2009Allow6051YesYes
10798905SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING LATCH CONTENTIONMarch 2004August 2007Allow4210YesNo
10433998TIME OPTIMIZED REPLACEMENT OF A SOFTWARE APPLICATIONDecember 2003September 2007Allow5220YesNo
10670836PROCESSOR DEDICATED CODE HANDLING IN A MULTI-PROCESSOR ENVIRONMENTSeptember 2003July 2008Allow5730YesNo
10633578CROSS LANGUAGE MIGRATIONAugust 2003February 2009Allow6040YesNo
10334888METHOD FOR MODIFYING A CLASS FILE TO MONITOR DATA FLOWDecember 2002January 2008Abandon6020YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner YAARY, MICHAEL D.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
5
Allowed After Appeal Filing
2
(40.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
3
(60.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
65.5%
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, 40.0% 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

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

Examiner YAARY, MICHAEL D - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner YAARY, MICHAEL D works in Art Unit 2151 and has examined 77 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 96.1%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 30 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner YAARY, MICHAEL D's allowance rate of 96.1% places them in the 86% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by YAARY, MICHAEL D receive 1.69 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 35% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by YAARY, MICHAEL D is 30 months. This places the examiner in the 59% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +0.3% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by YAARY, MICHAEL D. This interview benefit is in the 17% percentile among all examiners. Note: Interviews show limited statistical benefit with this examiner compared to others, though they may still be valuable for clarifying issues.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 33.3% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 72% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. Consider whether your amendments or new arguments are strong enough to warrant an RCE versus filing a continuation.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 74.1% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 94% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner is highly receptive to after-final amendments compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 714.12, after-final amendments may be entered "under justifiable circumstances." Consider filing after-final amendments with a clear showing of allowability rather than immediately filing an RCE, as this examiner frequently enters such amendments.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 89% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 75.0% occur early in the appeal process (after Notice of Appeal but before Appeal Brief). Strategic Insight: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process compared to other examiners. Per MPEP § 1207.01, all appeals must go through a mandatory appeal conference. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration even before you file an Appeal Brief.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 110.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 94% 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 10.4% of allowed cases (in the 94% percentile). Per MPEP § 1302.04, examiner's amendments are used to place applications in condition for allowance when only minor changes are needed. This examiner frequently uses this tool compared to other examiners, indicating a cooperative approach to getting applications allowed. Strategic Insight: If you are close to allowance but minor claim amendments are needed, this examiner may be willing to make an examiner's amendment rather than requiring another round of prosecution.

Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 11% 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:

  • Consider after-final amendments: This examiner frequently enters after-final amendments. If you can clearly overcome rejections with claim amendments, file an after-final amendment before resorting to an RCE.
  • Appeal filing as negotiation tool: This examiner frequently reconsiders rejections during the appeal process. Filing a Notice of Appeal may prompt favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
  • Examiner cooperation: This examiner frequently makes examiner's amendments to place applications in condition for allowance. If you are close to allowance, the examiner may help finalize the claims.

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.