Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19017416 | Translating Between CXL.mem and CXL.cache Read Transactions | January 2025 | March 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18772354 | MEMORY DEVICE SUPPORTING A HIGH-EFFICIENT INPUT/OUTPUT INTERFACE AND A MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE MEMORY DEVICE | July 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18680970 | SYSTEM DECODER FOR TRAINING ACCELERATORS | May 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18672917 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO MONITOR A MEDIA DEVICE VIA A USB PORT | May 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18598722 | COMBINING READ REQUESTS HAVING SPATIAL LOCALITY | March 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18588277 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME | February 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18581552 | INSERTING PREDEFINED PAD VALUES INTO A STREAM OF VECTORS | February 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18423203 | SHARED SCRATCHPAD MEMORY WITH PARALLEL LOAD-STORE | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18404794 | INTERCONNECTS FOR PHYSICALLY UNCLONABLE FUNCTION AND METHOD OF ACHIEVING PHYSICALLY UNCLONABLE FUNCTION THROUGH INTERCONNECTS | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18567905 | INSTRUCTION EXECUTION METHOD, PROCESSOR AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS | December 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18530673 | COORDINATE ROTATION DIGITAL COMPUTER USING DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS ENGINES | December 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18525462 | Providing Access to a Single-Ported Storage Device | November 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18522614 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA TRANSMISSION | November 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18521373 | MEMORY COMMANDS FOR MULTI-HOST COMMUNICATIONS | November 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18519210 | PROCESSING CORE INCLUDING INTEGRATED HIGH CAPACITY HIGH BANDWIDTH STORAGE MEMORY | November 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 18 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18515091 | SYSTEM ON CHIP HAVING SEMAPHORE FUNCTION AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING SEMAPHORE FUNCTION | November 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18512210 | COMMUNICATION INTERFACE CONTROLLER WITH OUTPUT MONITORING | November 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18507222 | NESTED LOOP CONTROL | November 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18499750 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING NONVOLATILE MEMORY | November 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18489993 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DESKTOP BUS (D-BUS) CACHING | October 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18463256 | VECTOR PROCESSOR STORAGE | September 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18461643 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO MONITOR A MEDIA DEVICE VIA A USB PORT | September 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18242034 | MEMORY DEVICE SUPPORTING A HIGH-EFFICIENT INPUT/OUTPUT INTERFACE AND A MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE MEMORY DEVICE | September 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18456699 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR ADDITION OF PARTIAL PRODUCTS | August 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18447707 | FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAY-BASED LOW LATENCY DISAGGREGATED SYSTEM ORCHESTRATOR | August 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18231820 | PRIVATE MEMORY MODE SEQUENTIAL MEMORY ACCESS IN MULTI-THREADED COMPUTING | August 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18231108 | QUAD-CHANNEL DRAM | August 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 21 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18361212 | Coprocessor Operation Bundling | July 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18261542 | SOFTWARE-DECOUPLING-BASED HARDWARE CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD | July 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18348880 | POLLING REGULATION FOR STORAGE INPUT/OUTPUT IN A COMPUTER SYSTEM | July 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18348047 | Method and Apparatus for Dual Issue Multiply Instructions | July 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18344986 | Fusion with Destructive Instructions | June 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18345098 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO EXTEND LOCAL BUFFER OF A HARDWARE ACCELERATOR | June 2023 | March 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18343145 | PC-Based Instruction Group Permissions | June 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18214733 | Scheduling Multiple Processing-in-Memory (PIM) Threads and Non-PIM Threads | June 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18337652 | Out-Of-Order Vector Iota Calculations | June 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18336985 | APPARATUSES, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR HASHING INSTRUCTIONS | June 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 23 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 18324693 | PRESERVING QUALITY OF SERVICE FOR CLIENT APPLICATIONS HAVING WORKLOADS FOR EXECUTION BY A COMPUTE CORE OR A HARDWARE ACCELERATOR | May 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18199361 | TOP LEVEL NETWORK AND ARRAY LEVEL NETWORK FOR RECONFIGURABLE DATA PROCESSORS | May 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 20 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18320147 | MULTI-DIE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH DATA PROCESSING ENGINE ARRAY | May 2023 | January 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18036506 | PREEMPTION IN A MACHINE LEARNING HARDWARE ACCELERATOR | May 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18312380 | PARALLEL SLICE PROCESSOR HAVING A RECIRCULATING LOAD-STORE QUEUE FOR FAST DEALLOCATION OF ISSUE QUEUE ENTRIES | May 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18142732 | Fault Isolation In A Director Processor Slice or Board | May 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18141995 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PERFORM COMPLIANCE AND AVAILABILITY CHECK FOR INTERNET SMALL COMPUTER SYSTEM INTERFACE (ISCSI) SERVICE IN DISTRIBUTED STORAGE SYSTEM | May 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18130667 | Buffer Splitting | April 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18194804 | SELECTIVE CONNECTION OF CONTROLLERS TO A SINGLE-PORTED INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE | April 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 24 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18191207 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MESSAGE SIGNALED INTERRUPTS ASSOCIATED WITH PERIPHERAL COMPONENTS | March 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18190242 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUS TO ENABLE DATA AGGREGATION AND ADAPTATION IN HARDWARE ACCELERATION SUBSYSTEMS | March 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18184994 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO MONITOR A MEDIA DEVICE VIA A USB PORT | March 2023 | June 2023 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18121513 | TASK PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE | March 2023 | December 2024 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18183178 | Artificial Intelligence Chip, Accelerator and Operation Method | March 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 25 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18119601 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR I/O COMMAND SCHEDULING BASED ON MULTIPLE RESOURCE PARAMETERS | March 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18118580 | ADDRESS MANIPULATION USING INDICES AND TAGS | March 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18117900 | PROGRAMMABLE ATOMIC OPERATOR RESOURCE LOCKING | March 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18179052 | SYSTEM ON CHIP HAVING SEMAPHORE FUNCTION AND METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING SEMAPHORE FUNCTION | March 2023 | July 2023 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18114612 | APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE TO STORE MEMORY DEPENDENCY INFORMATION | February 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 60 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18171012 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING ENERGY-EFFICIENT PROCESSING THROUGH REDUCED DATA MOVEMENT | February 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18095447 | USING CYCLE COUNTS TO SERVE COMPUTE ELEMENTS EXECUTING STATICALLY SCHEDULED INSTRUCTIONS FOR A MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATOR | January 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18092837 | NIC LINE-RATE HARDWARE PACKET PROCESSING | January 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18147075 | PIM Search Stop Control | December 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 19 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18081396 | DATA RATE INCREASE FOR FAULTY LANE RECOVERY IN MULTIPLE LANE DATA LINKS | December 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18064062 | HOST CONTROLLER INTERFACE USING MULTIPLE CIRCULAR QUEUE, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF | December 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17991914 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD | November 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17984360 | ON-CHIP MEMORY SYSTEM FOR A RECONFIGURABLE PARALLEL PROCESSOR | November 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17984336 | MIXED SCALAR AND VECTOR OPERATIONS IN MULTI-THREADED COMPUTING | November 2022 | June 2024 | Allow | 20 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17981617 | Programmable Accelerator for Data-Dependent, Irregular Operations | November 2022 | February 2025 | Allow | 28 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17981817 | MEMORY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING NONVOLATILE MEMORY | November 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17973268 | SYSTEM DECODER FOR TRAINING ACCELERATORS | October 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18049187 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO MONITOR A MEDIA DEVICE VIA A USB PORT | October 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17964964 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR ADDITION OF PARTIAL PRODUCTS | October 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17961229 | TRANSPORTING REQUEST TYPES WITH DIFFERENT LATENCIES | October 2022 | July 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17960050 | LATENCY REDUCTION FOR LINK SPEED SWITCHING IN MULTIPLE LANE DATA LINKS | October 2022 | April 2024 | Allow | 19 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17937167 | ACCELERATING REQUEST/RESPONSE PROTOCOLS | September 2022 | May 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17914472 | OPERATION OF AN OUTPUT COMPONENT TO PRODUCE A REPRESENTATION OF AN INSTRUCTION SET | September 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17948059 | Identification and Classification of Write Stream Priority | September 2022 | January 2024 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17932866 | PARALLEL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PARALLEL PROCESSING PROGRAM | September 2022 | October 2023 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17932411 | PLC FOR PROVIDING SPACE-EFFICIENT INPUT/OUTPUT INTERFACE | September 2022 | August 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17903240 | MEMORY DEVICE SUPPORTING A HIGH-EFFICIENT INPUT/OUTPUT INTERFACE AND A MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE MEMORY DEVICE | September 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17900471 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACCELERATOR DEVICE | August 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17888410 | SHADOW CACHE FOR SECURING CONDITIONAL SPECULATIVE INSTRUCTION EXECUTION | August 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17816632 | Snapshot Arbitration Techniques for Memory Requests | August 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17876116 | ACCELERATOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME | July 2022 | December 2023 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17865706 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DATA READS IN HOST PERFORMANCE ACCELERATION MODE | July 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17863662 | APPARATUS AND METHOD WITH NEURAL NETWORK OPERATION | July 2022 | November 2023 | Allow | 16 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17858506 | DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD FOR CONVOLUTION OPERATION, FETCHER, AND CONVOLUTION OPERATION APPARATUS | July 2022 | June 2023 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17855907 | Hypervisor Bridging of Different Versions of an IO Protocol | July 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 20 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17838606 | CACHE SYSTEMS AND CIRCUITS FOR SYNCING CACHES OR CACHE SETS | June 2022 | April 2023 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17830737 | DYNAMIC PLUG AND PLAY RESOURCE DISCOVERY | June 2022 | March 2024 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17827458 | METHOD, APPARATUS, SYSTEM FOR EARLY PAGE GRANULAR HINTS FROM A PCIE DEVICE | May 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17752621 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DATA DESCRIPTORS FOR HIGH SPEED DATA SYSTEMS | May 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 26 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17752554 | ENHANCED PERIPHERAL PROCESSING SYSTEM TO OPTIMIZE POWER CONSUMPTION | May 2022 | November 2022 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 17742340 | EXTENDED TAGS FOR SPECULATIVE AND NORMAL EXECUTIONS | May 2022 | May 2023 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17719316 | RECONFIGURABLE CHANNEL INTERFACES FOR MEMORY DEVICES | April 2022 | October 2024 | Allow | 30 | 3 | 0 | No | No |
| 17713002 | Method and Apparatus for Dual Issue Multiply Instructions | April 2022 | March 2023 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17656710 | PENALTY BASED ARBITRATION | March 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 17 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17699451 | SYSTEM ON CHIP AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SYSTEM ON CHIP | March 2022 | January 2025 | Allow | 34 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 17654543 | MULTI-DIE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH DATA PROCESSING ENGINE ARRAY | March 2022 | February 2023 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17654431 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA TRANSMISSION | March 2022 | August 2023 | Allow | 18 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 17691276 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT ACCESS TO MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA STRUCTURES AND/OR OTHER LARGE DATA BLOCKS | March 2022 | July 2024 | Allow | 28 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 17691212 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD | March 2022 | February 2024 | Allow | 23 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner SUN, MICHAEL.
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, 0.0% 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.
⚠ Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.
Examiner SUN, MICHAEL works in Art Unit 2183 and has examined 421 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 98.6%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 18 months.
Examiner SUN, MICHAEL's allowance rate of 98.6% places them in the 96% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.
On average, applications examined by SUN, MICHAEL receive 1.02 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 13% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.
The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by SUN, MICHAEL is 18 months. This places the examiner in the 94% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.
Conducting an examiner interview provides a +1.8% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by SUN, MICHAEL. This interview benefit is in the 18% 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.
When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 42.0% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 93% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. If you receive a final rejection, filing an RCE with substantive amendments or arguments has a strong likelihood of success.
This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 65.7% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 87% 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.
When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 200.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 94% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: Pre-appeal conferences are highly effective with this examiner compared to others. Before filing a full appeal brief, strongly consider requesting a PAC. The PAC provides an opportunity for the examiner and supervisory personnel to reconsider the rejection before the case proceeds to the PTAB.
This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 100.0% of appeals filed. This is in the 88% percentile among all examiners. Of these withdrawals, 100.0% 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.
When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 43.5% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 46% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show below-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing.
Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 1.4% of allowed cases (in the 72% percentile). This examiner makes examiner's amendments more often than average to place applications in condition for allowance (MPEP § 1302.04).
Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.5% of allowed cases (in the 49% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions less often than average. Allowances may come directly without a separate action for formal matters.
Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:
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