USPTO Examiner DUONG HUY - Art Unit 2182

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19113919DIGITAL FILTER CIRCUIT, DIGITAL FILTERING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DIGITAL FILTERING PROGRAMMarch 2025December 2025Allow910NoNo
18638441VECTOR OPERATION ACCELERATION WITH CONVOLUTION COMPUTATION UNITApril 2024October 2025Allow1820YesNo
18609563APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION USING DYNAMICALLY VARIABLE LOCAL PARAMETERSMarch 2024February 2026Allow2370YesNo
18486518SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE EMPLOYING PROCESSING IN MEMORY (PIM) AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICEOctober 2023January 2026Allow2730YesNo
17847491VECTOR-BY-MATRIX-MULTIPLICATION ARRAY UTILIZING ANALOG OUTPUTSJune 2022March 2026Allow4410YesNo
17742477Quantum Trend-Detection AlgorithmMay 2022February 2026Allow4510YesNo
17770483COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAMApril 2022January 2026Allow4510YesNo
17770518METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE STATE OF A SYSTEM AND DEVICE IMPLEMENTING SAID METHODSApril 2022March 2026Abandon4710NoNo
17586373RENDERING A SCENE USING A REDUCED MEMORY REPRESENTATION OF A POLYNOMIAL FUNCTION TO DETERMINE AN OUTPUT VALUE APPROXIMATING A MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONJanuary 2022December 2025Allow4720NoNo
17507185COMPUTATION OF DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMATION (DFT) USING NON-VOLATILE MEMORY ARRAYSOctober 2021February 2026Allow5210YesNo
17389362Device and Method of Handling a Modular MultiplicationJuly 2021January 2026Allow5431YesNo
17376105CIRCUITS, METHODS, AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE FOR HYPER-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND RELATED APPLICATIONSJuly 2021March 2026Allow5621YesNo
17309935SIGN-BASED PARTIAL REDUCTION OF MODULAR OPERATIONS IN ARITHMETIC LOGIC UNITSJuly 2021February 2026Allow5650YesYes
17293611SUPERVISED INFINITE BINARY MATRIX GENERATION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAMMay 2021November 2025Abandon5520NoNo
17292067INTEGRATED MEMORY SYSTEM FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE BAYESIAN AND CLASSICAL INFERENCE OF NEURAL NETWORKSMay 2021November 2025Allow5521YesNo
17194571PROCESSING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING THE SAMEMarch 2021January 2026Allow5810YesNo
17163617ANALOG VECTOR-MATRIX MULTIPLICATION CIRCUITFebruary 2021April 2022Allow1510YesNo
17161716INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR MODULAR MULTIPLICATION OF TWO INTEGERS FOR A CRYPTOGRAPHIC METHOD, AND METHOD FOR THE CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING OF DATA BASED ON MODULAR MULTIPLICATIONJanuary 2021October 2025Allow5620YesYes
17051429PROCESSING UNIT, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR MULTIPLYING AT LEAST TWO MULTIPLICANDSOctober 2020September 2022Allow2310YesNo
17076548DEVICE FOR COMPUTING THE INNER PRODUCT OF VECTORSOctober 2020September 2022Allow2310NoNo
17023541PHYSICAL-EVENT-BASED, RANDOM-NUMBER-GENERATION-AND-USE APPARATUS AND METHODSeptember 2020November 2025Abandon6040NoNo
16948195FLOATING POINT COMPUTATION FOR HYBRID FORMATSSeptember 2020January 2026Abandon6050YesYes
17004228ARITHMETIC DEVICEAugust 2020July 2022Allow2310NoNo
17001060EFFICIENT HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION USING HYPERBOLIC FUNCTIONSAugust 2020May 2022Allow2000YesNo
16943334MEMORY DEVICE AND COMPUTING DEVICE USING THE SAMEJuly 2020June 2022Allow2220NoNo
16925650MULTIPLE-DIGIT BINARY IN-MEMORY MULTIPLIER DEVICESJuly 2020May 2022Allow2310YesNo
16915937MULTIPLE BUSSES WITHIN A SYSTOLIC ARRAY PROCESSING ELEMENTJune 2020April 2022Allow2110YesNo
16862722LOW AREA MULTIPLY AND ACCUMULATE UNITApril 2020September 2022Allow2910NoNo
16756581RANDOM NUMBER GENERATING CIRCUIT AND RANDOM NUMBER GENERATING METHODApril 2020May 2022Allow2520NoNo
16847505DIFFERENTIAL MIXED SIGNAL MULTIPLIER WITH THREE CAPACITORSApril 2020February 2022Allow2210NoNo
16807562COMPUTE-IN-MEMORY (CIM) BINARY MULTIPLIERMarch 2020February 2022Allow2310NoNo
16795652INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAMPLING APPARATUSFebruary 2020March 2022Allow2530YesNo
16725378Iterative Estimation HardwareDecember 2019March 2022Allow2720YesNo
16623842COMPUTATION DEVICE, COMPUTATION METHOD, AND PROGRAMDecember 2019October 2022Allow3430NoNo
16691033SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE EMPLOYING PROCESSING IN MEMORY (PIM) AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICENovember 2019September 2022Allow3310YesNo
16682011CONVOLUTIONAL OPERATION DEVICE WITH DIMENSIONAL CONVERSIONNovember 2019July 2022Allow3210NoNo
16663848Solving Optimization Problems Using a Hybrid Computer SystemOctober 2019December 2022Allow3820YesNo
16604363Neural Network CircuitOctober 2019September 2022Allow3510YesNo
16603906PSEUDO SPECKLE PATTERN GENERATION DEVICE, PSEUDO SPECKLE PATTERN GENERATION METHOD, OBSERVATION DEVICE, AND OBSERVATION METHODOctober 2019September 2022Allow3511YesNo
16592509METHODS TO COMPRESS RANGE DOPPLER MAP (RDM) VALUES FROM FLOATING POINT TO DECIBELS (DB)October 2019September 2022Allow3520YesNo
16578507MEMORY DEVICE AND COMPUTING DEVICE USING THE SAMESeptember 2019December 2021Allow2720NoNo
16572783OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM ARITHMETIC METHOD AND OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM ARITHMETIC APPARATUSSeptember 2019May 2022Allow3220NoNo
16569077OPTIMIZATION APPARATUS, METHOD IMPLEMENTED BY OPTIMIZATION APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING PROGRAMSeptember 2019May 2022Allow3230YesNo
16569643OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM ARITHMETIC METHOD AND OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM ARITHMETIC DEVICESeptember 2019October 2021Allow2510NoNo
16536663CONDITION CODE ANTICIPATOR FOR HEXADECIMAL FLOATING POINTAugust 2019August 2022Allow3630YesNo
16469604METHOD FOR HANDLING MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATAJune 2019October 2022Abandon4121YesNo
16469074METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECOGNIZING AN EVENTJune 2019April 2022Abandon3420NoNo
16435248ELECTRONIC SYSTEM FOR COMPUTING ITEMS OF AN OUTER PRODUCT MATRIXJune 2019April 2022Allow3430YesNo
16435048FLOATING-POINT DOT-PRODUCT HARDWARE WITH WIDE MULTIPLY-ADDER TREE FOR MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATORSJune 2019November 2021Allow2911YesNo
16432358ULTRA-LOW PRECISION FLOATING-POINT FUSED MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE UNITJune 2019July 2022Allow3830NoNo
16426482DEVICE FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL COMPUTING COMPRISING AN ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY MODULEMay 2019October 2021Allow2910YesNo
16425792Radix-23 Fast Fourier Transform for an Embedded Digital Signal ProcessorMay 2019December 2021Abandon3010NoNo
16416417RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR USING MULTIPLE ENTROPY SOURCES AND A METHOD FOR GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERSMay 2019August 2021Allow2720NoNo
16414810MEMORY DEVICE AND MATRIX PROCESSING UNIT UTILIZING THE MEMORY DEVICEMay 2019September 2021Allow2810NoNo
16401128ARITHMETIC PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUMMay 2019October 2021Abandon3010NoNo
16395345FUNCTION APPROXIMATIONApril 2019February 2022Allow3420YesNo
16393413System and Method for Computing Oscillating FunctionsApril 2019June 2022Abandon3820NoNo
16382006COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE FOR EMULATING A QUADRILATERAL LATTICE CORRELITHM OBJECT GENERATOR IN A CORRELITHM OBJECT PROCESSING SYSTEMApril 2019December 2021Allow3200YesNo
16369629USING FUZZY-JBIT LOCATION OF FLOATING-POINT MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE RESULTSMarch 2019January 2021Allow2200NoNo
16369743INTERLEAVED PIPELINE OF FLOATING-POINT ADDERSMarch 2019November 2021Allow3120YesNo
16367193APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING COMPLEX MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE CIRCUITRYMarch 2019June 2022Allow3931YesNo
16366941METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR APPROXIMATION USING POLYNOMIALSMarch 2019January 2022Allow3430YesNo
16334145Method for Environmental Resistant True Random Number GenerationMarch 2019October 2022Abandon4340YesNo
16333579PARALLEL, BLOCK-BASED DATA ENCODING AND DECODING USING MULTIPLE COMPUTATIONAL UNITSMarch 2019December 2021Allow3321NoNo
16353836Calculator Having Number Keys For 3.663 And 6.336March 2019April 2021Allow2510NoNo
16352764SOFTMAX CIRCUITMarch 2019December 2020Allow2100NoNo
16299596DYNAMIC SIGNAL PROCESSINGMarch 2019January 2022Allow3440YesNo
16299435DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMMarch 2019December 2021Abandon3320YesNo
16351357DIGITAL FILTERING FOR A SIGNAL WITH TARGET AND SECONDARY SIGNAL BANDSMarch 2019August 2022Allow4140YesNo
16299322CONVERSION CIRCUITRYMarch 2019November 2021Allow3230NoNo
16299625CALCULATING DEVICE, CALCULATION PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND CALCULATION METHODMarch 2019July 2021Allow2820YesNo
16191767PARTITIONING SPARSE MATRICES BASED ON SPARSE MATRIX REPRESENTATIONS FOR CROSSBAR-BASED ARCHITECTURESNovember 2018August 2022Abandon4510NoNo
16099479XIU-ACCUMULATING REGISTER, XIU-ACCUMULATING REGISTER CIRCUIT, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICENovember 2018July 2022Abandon4520NoNo
15908780NEUROMORPHIC SYSTEMS FOR COMPUTING CHARACTERISTICS OF A SETFebruary 2018March 2026Allow6060YesYes

Appeals Overview

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

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
4
Examiner Affirmed
3
(75.0%)
Examiner Reversed
1
(25.0%)
Reversal Percentile
38.8%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 25.0% 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
5
Allowed After Appeal Filing
1
(20.0%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
4
(80.0%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
25.0%
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, 20.0% 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 DUONG, HUY - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner DUONG, HUY works in Art Unit 2182 and has examined 65 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 81.5%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 33 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner DUONG, HUY's allowance rate of 81.5% places them in the 53% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by DUONG, HUY receive 1.95 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 48% 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 DUONG, HUY is 33 months. This places the examiner in the 46% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +17.8% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by DUONG, HUY. This interview benefit is in the 59% 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, 33.9% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 74% 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 46.2% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 70% 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, 0.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 7% 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 42.9% of appeals filed. This is in the 9% percentile among all examiners. 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, 200.0% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 98% 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 12% 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 3.8% of allowed cases (in the 77% percentile). Per MPEP § 714.14, a Quayle action indicates that all claims are allowable but formal matters remain. This examiner frequently uses Quayle actions compared to other examiners, which is a positive indicator that once substantive issues are resolved, allowance follows quickly.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

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

    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

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