USPTO Examiner LAROCQUE EMILY E - Art Unit 2182

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
18851656MULTIPLIER, MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE CIRCUIT, OPERATIONAL CIRCUIT, PROCESSOR, AND CALCULATION APPARATUSSeptember 2024May 2025Allow810YesNo
18846855MULTIPLIER, MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE CIRCUIT, AND CONVOLUTION OPERATION UNITSeptember 2024June 2025Allow920NoNo
18762439CALCULATION CONTROL FOR HYBRID COMPUTING OF HAMILTONIAN EIGENSOLUTIONSJuly 2024March 2025Allow910NoNo
18750874CALCULATION CONTROL FOR HYBRID COMPUTING OF HAMILTONIAN EIGENSOLUTIONSJune 2024January 2025Allow710NoNo
18675736FAST PREDICTION PROCESSORMay 2024April 2025Allow1010NoNo
18588604ADDER CIRCUIT USING LOOKUP TABLESFebruary 2024November 2024Allow800NoNo
18425726METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING A CONVOLUTION TRANSPOSE LAYER OF A NEURAL NETWORKJanuary 2024August 2024Allow600NoNo
18417868Performing Multiple Bit Computation and Convolution in MemoryJanuary 2024April 2025Allow1510YesNo
18395836SMALL MULTIPLIER AFTER INITIAL APPROXIMATION FOR OPERATIONS WITH INCREASING PRECISIONDecember 2023September 2024Allow900NoNo
18528541TOPOLOGICAL SCHEDULINGDecember 2023July 2024Allow801NoNo
18502796PROCESSING-IN-MEMORY (PIM) DEVICE, CONTROLLER FOR CONTROLLING THE PIM DEVICE, AND PIM SYSTEM INCLUDING THE PIM DEVICE AND THE CONTROLLERNovember 2023April 2025Allow1800NoNo
18496494RESIDUE NUMBER SYSTEM IN A PHOTONIC MATRIX ACCELERATOROctober 2023February 2025Allow1610NoNo
18447029FFT ENGINE HAVING COMBINED BIT-REVERSAL AND MEMORY TRANSPOSE OPERATIONSAugust 2023March 2025Allow1921NoNo
18354679IN MEMORY MATRIX MULTIPLICATION AND ITS USAGE IN NEURAL NETWORKSJuly 2023February 2024Allow700NoNo
18214303COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED PERCEPTUAL APPARATUSJune 2023February 2024Allow800NoNo
18337955ADAPTIVE SETTLING TIME CONTROL FOR BINARY-WEIGHTED CHARGE REDISTRIBUTION CIRCUITSJune 2023May 2024Allow1110YesNo
18144609ADDER CIRCUIT USING LOOKUP TABLESMay 2023December 2023Allow700NoNo
18140571Float Division by Constant IntegerApril 2023December 2023Allow700NoNo
18304574METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH NEURAL NETWORK PERFORMING DECONVOLUTIONApril 2023December 2023Allow800YesNo
18134726TRANSPOSED CONVOLUTION USING SYSTOLIC ARRAYApril 2023December 2023Allow800NoNo
18133306NEURAL PROCESSING ACCELERATORApril 2023January 2024Allow910NoNo
18297230DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ACCELERATING MATRIX MULTIPLY OPERATIONSApril 2023June 2024Allow1410YesNo
18029558METHOD AND DEVICE FOR QUANTUM DIVISION OPERATION WITH PRECISIONMarch 2023May 2024Allow1320YesNo
18122701SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAPPING MATRIX CALCULATIONS TO A MATRIX MULTIPLY ACCELERATORMarch 2023May 2025Allow2610NoNo
18166925QUANTA IMAGE SENSOR QUANTUM RANDOM NUMBER GENERATIONFebruary 2023September 2023Allow700NoNo
18019873FRACTIONAL DOMAIN NOISE REDUCTION METHOD FOR POWER SIGNALFebruary 2023March 2024Abandon1320NoNo
18104438HIGH CLOCK-EFFICIENCY RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHODFebruary 2023March 2024Abandon1320NoNo
18104719FLOATING POINT TO FIXED POINT CONVERSIONFebruary 2023May 2025Allow2700NoNo
18097316SMALL MULTIPLIER AFTER INITIAL APPROXIMATION FOR OPERATIONS WITH INCREASING PRECISIONJanuary 2023August 2023Allow700NoNo
18096559SIGNED MULTIPLICATION USING UNSIGNED MULTIPLIER WITH DYNAMIC FINE-GRAINED OPERAND ISOLATIONJanuary 2023May 2023Allow400NoNo
18096521METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPLEMENTING A CONVOLUTION TRANSPOSE LAYER OF A NEURAL NETWORKJanuary 2023September 2023Allow810NoNo
18150317SQUARE ROOT CALCULATIONS ON AN ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING UNITJanuary 2023June 2024Allow1710NoNo
18078482MAGNETORESISTIVE RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY (MRAM) RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR (RNG) AND A RELATED METHOD FOR GENERATING A RANDOM BITDecember 2022March 2023Allow300YesNo
18049207OPERATOR AVERAGING WITHIN QUANTUM COMPUTING SYSTEMSOctober 2022July 2024Allow2010YesNo
17965351METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH FLOATING POINT PROCESSINGOctober 2022April 2024Allow1830YesNo
17937636CALCULATING DEVICE, CALCULATION PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND CALCULATION METHODOctober 2022November 2023Allow1420YesNo
17897138METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR HIGHLY EFFECTIVE ON-CHIP QUANTUM RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORAugust 2022December 2022Allow310NoNo
17880435APPLICATIONS OF AND TECHNIQUES FOR QUICKLY COMPUTING A MODULO OPERATION BY A MERSENNE OR A FERMAT NUMBERAugust 2022January 2023Allow500NoNo
17868266PERFORMING CONSTANT MODULO ARITHMETICJuly 2022December 2024Allow2920YesYes
17854927CONSTANT MULTIPLICATION BY DIVISIONJune 2022December 2024Abandon2920NoYes
17853694HYBRID FIXED LOGIC FOR PERFORMING MULTIPLICATIONJune 2022September 2024Abandon2620NoYes
17844981TOPOLOGICAL SCHEDULINGJune 2022August 2023Allow1400NoNo
17751487NEURAL PROCESSING ACCELERATORMay 2022January 2023Allow700NoNo
17771826HALF-ADDER, FULL-ADDER AND MULTIPLIER BASED ON MEMRISTOR ARRAYApril 2022November 2023Abandon1910NoNo
17726410OPERATION ACCELERATORApril 2022March 2023Allow1110NoNo
17657991INFINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE FILTERS WITH DITHERING AND METHODS OF OPERATION THEREOFApril 2022June 2023Allow1510NoNo
17689454METHOD AND APPARATUS WITH DATA PROCESSINGMarch 2022June 2025Allow3900NoNo
17687250ENTROPY SOURCE AND CHARGE PUMP OF A RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORMarch 2022June 2025Allow4000NoNo
17672656HIGH CLOCK-EFFICIENCY RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHODFebruary 2022October 2023Allow2020NoNo
17556609RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORDecember 2021February 2023Allow1410YesNo
17553081Division and Modulo OperationsDecember 2021April 2024Allow2820NoNo
17547413OPTIMIZATION OF ARITHMETIC EXPRESSIONSDecember 2021October 2023Allow2210YesNo
17547071Float Division by Constant IntegerDecember 2021December 2022Allow1200NoNo
17543676RESIDUE NUMBER SYSTEM IN A PHOTONIC MATRIX ACCELERATORDecember 2021July 2023Allow2010NoNo
17538676SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROUNDING RECIPROCAL SQUARE ROOT RESULTS OF INPUT FLOATING POINT NUMBERSNovember 2021August 2023Allow2020NoNo
17518257METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MASS SPECTROMETER USING ANALYSYS DATA DETERMINED BY TWO VARIABLESNovember 2021June 2025Allow4310NoNo
17514669PROCESSING DEVICE, ACCELERATOR, AND METHOD FOR FEDERATED LEARNINGOctober 2021August 2022Allow920YesNo
17500650PRE-CARRY DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHODOctober 2021April 2025Allow4210YesNo
17601972METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING HIGH-ORDER PSEUDO-RANDOM ELECTROMAGNETIC EXPLORATION SIGNALOctober 2021February 2024Allow2910NoNo
17489842INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHODSeptember 2021July 2023Allow2100NoNo
17487429RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES AND RADAR SYSTEMSeptember 2021April 2022Allow710YesNo
17485382CIRCUIT ARCHITECTURE FOR DETERMINING THRESHOLD RANGES AND VALUES OF A DATASETSeptember 2021August 2023Allow2210NoNo
17473139DEVICE AND METHOD WITH MULTI-BIT OPERATIONSeptember 2021January 2024Allow2820NoNo
17471140Quanta Image Sensor Quantum Random Number GenerationSeptember 2021November 2022Allow1400NoNo
17469374SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND ARITHMETIC SYSTEMSeptember 2021February 2025Allow4100NoNo
17460802Unified Forward and Inverse Transform ArchitectureAugust 2021January 2024Allow2930NoNo
17429734COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PSEUDO-RANDOM DATA GENERATORAugust 2021December 2024Allow4010NoNo
17393372DUFFING OSCILLATOR RESERVOIR COMPUTERAugust 2021March 2025Allow4310NoNo
17427832DEVICE AND METHOD FOR HARDWARE-EFFICIENT ADAPTIVE CALCULATION OF FLOATING-POINT TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS USING COORDINATE ROTATE DIGITAL COMPUTER (CORDIC)August 2021March 2024Allow3220NoNo
17426078ARITHMETIC APPARATUS AND MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE SYSTEMJuly 2021November 2023Allow2820YesNo
17425787COMPUTATION PROCESSING DEVICE, COMPUTATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND CONFIGURATION PROGRAMJuly 2021February 2025Allow4310YesNo
17425055ARITHMETIC APPARATUS, MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE SYSTEM, AND SETTING METHODJuly 2021August 2023Allow2410NoNo
17380077Signal Processing Method And Signal Processing DeviceJuly 2021June 2023Allow2310NoNo
17370171Dynamic Tile Parallel Neural Network AcceleratorJuly 2021September 2022Allow1410NoNo
17361968STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAMEJune 2021March 2025Allow4410NoNo
17360458FEEDBACK-BASED QUANTUM OPTIMIZATIONJune 2021January 2025Allow4310NoNo
17360792Non-Boolean Quantum Amplitude Ampification and Quantum Mean Estimation Systems and MethodsJune 2021September 2024Allow3800NoNo
17359025FAST PREDICTION PROCESSORJune 2021April 2024Allow3400NoNo
17358579SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, DATA GENERATION METHODS USED FOR THE SAME, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAMEJune 2021January 2025Allow4310NoNo
17357924METHODS AND APPARATUS TO PERFORM MACHINE-LEARNING MODEL OPERATIONS ON SPARSE ACCELERATORSJune 2021February 2025Allow4310YesNo
17417617RANDOM WEIGHT GENERATING CIRCUITJune 2021November 2024Abandon4110NoNo
17351699MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FFT COMPUTATION PIPELINED HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE USING RADIX-3 AND RADIX-2� BUTTERFLIESJune 2021March 2024Allow3310NoNo
17350550SINGLE FUNCTION TO PERFORM MULTIPLE OPERATIONS WITH DISTINCT OPERATION PARAMETER VALIDATIONJune 2021September 2023Allow2710YesNo
17344500MULTIPLICATION AND ADDITION OPERATION DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR MULTIPLICATION AND ADDITION OPERATION THEREOFJune 2021June 2023Allow2510NoNo
17303839RING OSCILLATOR BASED TRUE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR AND A METHOD FOR GENERATING A RANDOM NUMBERJune 2021December 2023Allow3120NoNo
17339433RANDOM SEED GENERATING CIRCUIT OF MEMORY SYSTEMJune 2021January 2025Allow4330YesNo
17331472SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZATION OF TIME EVOLUTION FOR QUANTUM COMPUTER-BASED EIGENVALUE ESTIMATIONMay 2021November 2024Allow4220NoNo
17331215FFT ENGINE HAVING COMBINED BIT-REVERSAL AND MEMORY TRANSPOSE OPERATIONSMay 2021April 2023Allow2210YesNo
17329259SPARSE MATRIX MULTIPLICATION IN HARDWAREMay 2021September 2024Allow3920YesNo
17327988REDUCED COMPLEXITY CONVOLUTION FOR CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKSMay 2021October 2023Allow2920NoNo
17326565METHOD OF ACCELERATING SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING (SLAM) AND DEVICE USING SAMEMay 2021September 2023Allow2820YesNo
17295520UNSUPERVISED DISAGGREGATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUMMay 2021May 2025Abandon4720YesNo
17291258DEVICE FOR CALCULATING AN ANALOG FOURIER TRANSFORMMay 2021December 2024Abandon4410NoNo
17288216INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAMApril 2021December 2024Allow4420NoNo
17236220Rotation Matrix-Based Factor Graph Cooperative Localization AlgorithmApril 2021July 2024Abandon3920NoNo
17285168AN ARCHITECTURE FOR SMALL AND EFFICIENT MODULAR MULTIPLICATION USING CARRY-SAVE ADDERSApril 2021November 2021Allow700YesNo
17229550ACCELERATOR FOR SPARSE-DENSE MATRIX MULTIPLICATIONApril 2021July 2023Allow2710YesNo
17284016RANDOM NUMBER QUALITY MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUSApril 2021June 2024Allow3910NoNo
17225167OPTIMIZATION DEVICE, OPTIMIZATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING OPTIMIZATION PROGRAMApril 2021October 2023Allow3110NoNo
17224374ALGEBRAIC PROOF-OF-WORK ALGORITHM FOR BLOCKCHAINSApril 2021December 2024Allow4420YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner LAROCQUE, EMILY E.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
25
Examiner Affirmed
17
(68.0%)
Examiner Reversed
8
(32.0%)
Reversal Percentile
47.7%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 32.0% reversal rate, the PTAB reverses the examiner's rejections in a meaningful percentage 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
37
Allowed After Appeal Filing
15
(40.5%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
22
(59.5%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
65.3%
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, 40.5% 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 face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.

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

Examiner LAROCQUE, EMILY E - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner LAROCQUE, EMILY E works in Art Unit 2182 and has examined 471 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 83.9%, this examiner has an above-average tendency to allow applications. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 26 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner LAROCQUE, EMILY E's allowance rate of 83.9% 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 LAROCQUE, EMILY E receive 1.51 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 37% 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 LAROCQUE, EMILY E is 26 months. This places the examiner in the 60% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly faster than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +10.9% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by LAROCQUE, EMILY E. This interview benefit is in the 48% 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, 29.9% 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 43.3% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 60% 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, 14.3% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 23% 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 45.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 8% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 9.5% 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, 18.5% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 10% 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 11% 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 0.5% of allowed cases (in the 50% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions less often than average. Allowances may 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:

    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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