USPTO Art Unit 2137 Prosecution Statistics

Art Unit Information

Art Unit: 2137
Group: 2130
Tech Center: 2100
Total Cases: 5,769
Last Active: January 2025

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19022852METHOD OF ORGANIZING A PROGRAMMABLE ATOMIC UNIT INSTRUCTION MEMORYJanuary 2025March 2026Allow1400NoNo
19012246COMPRESSOR FOR COMPRESSING CONTROL SIGNAL, DECOMPRESSOR FOR DECOMPRESSING CONTROL SIGNAL, AND STORAGE DEVICE INCLUDING THE COMPRESSOR AND THE DECOMPRESSORJanuary 2025February 2026Allow1300NoNo
19002788DATA ACCESS CONTROL METHOD OF MEMORY CARD AND COMPUTER SYSTEMDecember 2024March 2026Allow1400NoNo
19000849COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOFDecember 2024February 2026Allow1400NoNo
18878035IO REQUEST PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-PATH STORAGE AND STORAGE MEDIUMDecember 2024August 2025Allow810NoNo
18960603Atomic SmashingNovember 2024January 2026Allow1400NoNo
18949612MULTI-PLANE CACHE TRANSFER ENHANCEMENTNovember 2024October 2025Allow1100NoNo
18865206METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING DISK SEQUENCES OF HARD DISK BACKPLANES, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICENovember 2024April 2025Allow510NoNo
18940372CONFIGURATION METHOD FOR A PHASE-CHANGE NON-VOLATILE MEMORYNovember 2024March 2026Allow1610YesNo
18937753POST-COMPRESSION RESIDUAL DATA OBJECT PROCESSINGNovember 2024January 2026Allow1510NoNo
18934285KUBERNETES DATA PROTECTION USING A CONTAINERIZED FILE SYSTEM DATA AGENTNovember 2024January 2026Allow1500NoNo
18931273METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING SPACE CONSUMPTIONOctober 2024October 2025Allow1100NoNo
18929859METHOD, DEVICE, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR WEAR LEVELINGOctober 2024October 2025Allow1100NoNo
18920994DATA STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANAGING METADATA THEREOFOctober 2024November 2025Allow1300NoNo
18905441DATATYPE ENGINE TO SUPPORT HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTINGOctober 2024December 2025Allow1510NoNo
18853016POLARITY INVERSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUSSeptember 2024February 2025Allow400NoNo
18900002METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOGGING FOR PERSISTENT MEMORYSeptember 2024January 2026Allow1600NoNo
18898142DYNAMIC PROGRAM SUSPEND DISABLE FOR RANDOM WRITE SSD WORKLOADSeptember 2024October 2025Allow1310NoNo
18890080SYSTEM-ON-CHIP FOR CONTROLLING MEMORY DEVICES AND ITS DATA TRAINING METHODSeptember 2024December 2025Allow1500NoNo
18829891STORAGE SYSTEM AND STATE MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR RESOURCE OPERATIONSeptember 2024November 2025Allow1400NoNo
18830162COMPUTER SYSTEM AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR ALLOCATING STORAGE AREAS TO CONTAINERS BASED ON STORAGE CHARACTERISTICS AND CONNECTION INFORMATION IN A MULTI-BASE CLOUD ENVIRONMENTSeptember 2024February 2026Allow1710NoNo
18829835STORAGE SYSTEM FOR PREVENTING PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION WHEN A CONTROLLER IS BLOCKEDSeptember 2024January 2026Allow1600NoNo
18825319Data Storage Device and Method for Buffer Occupancy-Based Data Placement to Avoid Video LossSeptember 2024February 2026Allow1710YesNo
18823666MEMORY DEVICES, CONTROL METHODS OF MEMORY, AND MEMORY SYSTEMSSeptember 2024January 2026Allow1610NoNo
18822970REDUCING ENERGY COMSUMPTION OF SELF-MANAGED DRAM MODULESSeptember 2024February 2026Allow1710NoNo
18821907MULTI-ACTUATOR DEVICE WITH SHARED READ CHANNELAugust 2024October 2025Allow1400NoNo
18817678MEMORY DEVICE ADJUSTING DUTY CYCLE AND MEMORY SYSTEM HAVING THE SAMEAugust 2024January 2026Allow1710NoNo
18812443PERSISTENT XSPI STT-MRAM WITH OPTIONAL ERASE OPERATIONAugust 2024January 2026Allow1710YesNo
18805780STORAGE DEVICE PROVIDING PACKET DESCRIPTOR FLAG, METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF OPERATING ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING THE SAMEAugust 2024March 2026Allow1900NoNo
18806224TECHNIQUES FOR PRE-FETCHING INFORMATION USING PATTERN DETECTIONAugust 2024March 2026Allow1900NoNo
18805083FLEXIBLE MEMORY SYSTEMAugust 2024December 2025Allow1610NoNo
18804363STORAGE DEVICE, STORAGE SYSTEM, AND OPERATING METHOD OF STORAGE SYSTEMAugust 2024December 2025Allow1710YesNo
18802728TECHNIQUES FOR SERVICING I/O OPERATIONS USING REDIRECTIONAugust 2024February 2026Allow1810YesNo
18801953MEMORY CONTROLLER CONTROLLING POWER CONSUMPTION, MEMORY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME, AND METHOD OF OPERATING MEMORY CONTROLLERAugust 2024January 2026Allow1710YesNo
18803440LOG MANAGEMENT MAINTENANCE OPERATION AND COMMANDAugust 2024March 2026Allow1910NoNo
18800350STORAGE SYSTEM STORING USER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION AND CLOUD SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAMEAugust 2024February 2026Allow1810YesNo
18798819STORAGE DEVICE AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOFAugust 2024October 2025Allow1400NoNo
18794063PERFORMING DATA-STORAGE BACKGROUND ACTIVITIESAugust 2024January 2026Allow1800NoNo
18790391MEMORY DEVICE WITH A DIE HAVING MULTIPLE PSEUDO CHANNELS PER CHANNELJuly 2024February 2026Allow1810NoNo
18789588MANAGING MEMORY SPACE ALLOCATIONJuly 2024September 2025Allow1400NoNo
18789265DEVICE INTERNAL DATA PREPARATION AND MIGRATIONJuly 2024October 2025Allow1500NoNo
18788545MEMORY SYSTEM MANAGING MULTIPLE LOGICAL ADDRESS SPACESJuly 2024January 2026Allow1810NoNo
18788786STORING SEQUENTIAL AND RANDOM DATA IN DIFFERENT LAYOUTSJuly 2024October 2025Allow1410NoNo
18789660APPARATUS INCLUDING AN ARRAY OF PRE-CONFIGURABLE MEMORY AND STORAGEJuly 2024September 2025Allow1400NoNo
18787152Cloud-Based Storage Management Of Edge DevicesJuly 2024December 2025Allow1610NoNo
18786035STORAGE SYSTEM HAVING ROVING MEMORY REGIONJuly 2024August 2025Allow1310NoNo
18785249Data Storage Device and Method for Metadata Retrieval and BypassingJuly 2024February 2026Allow1810YesNo
18784429ACTIVATE INFORMATION ON PRECEDING PRECHARGE COMMANDJuly 2024January 2026Allow1810NoNo
18784292MEMORY COMPRESSION WITH IMPROVED LOOKUP TABLE SCHEMEJuly 2024June 2025Allow1100NoNo
18783121BOOT PROCESS TO IMPROVE DATA RETENTION IN MEMORY DEVICESJuly 2024November 2025Allow1610NoNo
18781733SYSTEM USAGE OF A FAST READ MODE FOR READ PERFORMANCEJuly 2024January 2026Allow1810NoNo
18776583REFRESHING A MEMORY BLOCK ON POWER UP BASED ON AN AGE AND/OR TEMPERATURE CONDITIONJuly 2024December 2025Allow1710NoNo
18773967MODIFYING ACCESS OPERATIONS BASED ON TEMPERATURE PROJECTIONSJuly 2024August 2025Allow1300NoNo
18773018Tiering Cloud-Based Storage Data Using Virtual Drive-Based SystemsJuly 2024March 2026Allow2020YesNo
18772553PROVIDING MULTIPLE ERROR CORRECTION CODE PROTECTION LEVELS IN MEMORYJuly 2024February 2026Allow1910NoNo
18771389EFFICIENT BACKUP AFTER A RESTORE OPERATIONJuly 2024September 2025Allow1410NoNo
18770951READ-AHEAD BASED ON READ SIZE AND QUEUE IDENTIFIERJuly 2024November 2025Allow1610YesNo
18771972MEMORY MANAGEMENT AMONG MULTIPLE ERASE BLOCKS COUPLED TO A SAME STRINGJuly 2024November 2025Allow1610YesNo
18768511ADAPTIVE METHOD TO EFFICIENTLY READ OUT RETENTION DEGRADED NAND DATAJuly 2024September 2025Allow1510NoNo
18768983SELF-SYNCHRONIZING REMOTE MEMORY OPERATIONS IN A MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMJuly 2024July 2025Allow1200NoNo
18764836OPERATION METHODS OF MEMORY SYSTEMS, MEMORY CONTROLLERS, MEMORY SYSTEMS, AND STORAGE MEDIUMSJuly 2024December 2025Allow1810YesNo
18763244OPTIMIZED I/O PERFORMANCE REGULATION FOR NON-VOLATILE STORAGEJuly 2024July 2025Allow1200NoNo
18760950DYNAMICALLY ASSIGNING STORAGE OBJECTS TO COMPARTMENT CONSTRUCTS OF A STORAGE SYSTEM TO REDUCE APPLICATION RISKJuly 2024November 2025Allow1710NoNo
18760436Data Storage Device and Method for Accommodating Data of a Third-Party SystemJuly 2024March 2026Allow2010YesNo
18757798Selectable Slice MappingJune 2024June 2025Allow1100NoNo
18759169CLOUD-BASED DESTINATION FOR BLOCK-LEVEL DATA REPLICATION PROCESSINGJune 2024February 2026Allow1910NoNo
18754158CACHE LOOK UP DURING PACKET PROCESSING BY UNIFORMLY CACHING NON-UNIFORM LENGTHS OF PAYLOAD DATA IN A DUAL-STAGE CACHE OF PACKET PROCESSORSJune 2024November 2025Allow1710NoNo
18724392Cache Management Method, Apparatus and System, Device and MediumJune 2024July 2025Allow1311NoNo
18754182MEMORY CONTROLLER AND DATA INPUT/OUTPUT METHOD THEREOFJune 2024August 2025Allow1400NoNo
18755097SELF-SYNCHRONIZING REMOTE MEMORY OPERATIONS IN A DATA CENTER OR MULTIPROCESSOR SYSTEMJune 2024September 2025Allow1400NoNo
18753551SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PROCESSING DATA AND OPERATION METHOD OF THE SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICEJune 2024December 2025Allow1811YesNo
18723505CONFIGURING A QUORUM COMPONENT ON NETWORK STORAGEJune 2024November 2025Allow1710NoNo
18752068STORAGE DEVICE PROVIDING PROTECTION FROM DATA INTERFERENCEJune 2024March 2026Allow2020YesNo
18749469UNMAP BACKLOG IN A MEMORY SYSTEMJune 2024October 2025Allow1510NoNo
18748075RESOURCE ELIMINATION METHOD, APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMJune 2024January 2026Allow1900NoNo
18746394MEMORY SYSTEMJune 2024February 2025Allow800NoNo
18742897RESERVATION STATION WITH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY STORAGE CIRCUITS FOR STORE OPERATIONSJune 2024July 2025Allow1300NoNo
18741452STORAGE DEVICES HAVING MULTIPLE STORAGE REGIONSJune 2024July 2025Allow1300NoNo
18739337DATA ACCESS METHOD OF SOLID-STATE DRIVE DEVICE AND SOLID-STATE DRIVE DEVICEJune 2024November 2025Allow1710NoNo
18737737OPTIMIZING MEMORY USAGE IN PHYSICAL MEMORYJune 2024September 2025Allow1520YesNo
18736801Maintaining Replica File SystemsJune 2024December 2025Allow1920YesNo
18737526DELTA PREDICTIONS FOR PAGE SCHEDULINGJune 2024June 2025Allow1310NoNo
18734666SUPPORTING MIXED READ IN NON-VOLATILE MEMORY CONTROLLERJune 2024August 2025Allow1401NoNo
18733125MULTI-LEVEL CACHE SECURITYJune 2024February 2025Allow800YesNo
18680998PROGRAMMABLE, SCALABLE, AND PERFORMANT VIRTUAL-TO-PHYSICAL ADDRESS TRANSLATION FOR REMOTE DIRECT MEMORY ACCESS (RDMA) AND OTHER PROTOCOLSMay 2024September 2025Allow1620YesNo
18680784Circuit and Method for Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) ImplementationMay 2024December 2025Allow1910NoNo
18678346IDENTIFICATION AND STORAGE OF BOOT INFORMATION AT A MEMORY SYSTEMMay 2024November 2025Allow1710YesNo
18679265STORAGE SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE WRITE PATHSMay 2024July 2025Allow1410YesNo
18678420SOLID-STATE STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING PERFORMANCE THEREOFMay 2024May 2025Allow1100NoNo
18677820SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA STORAGE IN A STORAGE DEVICEMay 2024September 2025Allow1510NoNo
18672645PADDING CACHED DATA WITH VALID DATA FOR MEMORY FLUSH COMMANDSMay 2024June 2025Allow1210YesNo
18672327Data Storage Device and Method for Providing Video Grade Performance Without Memory Overprovisioning or Using Extra HardwareMay 2024December 2025Allow1810YesNo
18673276MEMORY WITH VIRTUAL PAGE SIZEMay 2024January 2026Allow2020YesNo
18671485BOOT AND INITIALIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR STACKED MEMORY ARCHITECTURESMay 2024June 2025Allow1300NoNo
18668893Mechanism for Efficient Accessing to Memory Controllers with Non-Power-of-Two Sized MemoryMay 2024August 2025Allow1500NoNo
18667685METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GARBAGE COLLECTION FOR STORAGE SYSTEMMay 2024October 2025Allow1710NoNo
18667632SYSTEM AND METHOD TO CREATE APPLICATION COPIES FOR COPY REUSE UTILIZING THE APPLICATION BACKUP DATA STORED IN SECONDARY STORAGEMay 2024January 2025Allow800YesNo
18655383LEVERAGING RECURRENT PATTERNS OF RAID MEMBERS DISTRIBUTION FOR EFFICIENT ARRAY GROWTHMay 2024July 2025Allow1400YesNo
18654749MEMORY ACCESS DETERMINATIONMay 2024February 2025Allow1010NoNo
18653045Data Storage Device and Method for Access Control Based on a Stream Identifier of a Virtual FunctionMay 2024January 2026Allow2111YesNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for art-unit 2137.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
105
Examiner Affirmed
70
(66.7%)
Examiner Reversed
35
(33.3%)
Reversal Percentile
54.2%
Higher than average

What This Means

With a 33.3% 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
371
Allowed After Appeal Filing
128
(34.5%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
243
(65.5%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
60.8%
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, 34.5% 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 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.

Art Unit 2137 - Prosecution Statistics Summary

Executive Summary

Art Unit 2137 is part of Group 2130 in Technology Center 2100. This art unit has examined 5,769 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 79.6%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 31 months.

Comparative Analysis

Art Unit 2137's allowance rate of 79.6% places it in the 61% percentile among all USPTO art units. This art unit has an above-average allowance rate compared to other art units.

Prosecution Patterns

Applications in Art Unit 2137 receive an average of 2.09 office actions before reaching final disposition (in the 66% percentile). The median prosecution time is 31 months (in the 48% percentile).

Strategic Considerations

When prosecuting applications in this art unit, consider the following:

  • The art unit's allowance rate suggests a more favorable examination environment compared to the USPTO average.
  • With more office actions than average, plan for relatively streamlined prosecution.
  • The median prosecution time is longer than average and should be factored into your continuation and client communication strategies.
  • Review individual examiner statistics within this art unit to identify examiners with particularly favorable or challenging prosecution patterns.

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.