Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19049554 | MULTIMODAL HUMAN-MACHINE COLLABORATIVE INTERACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | February 2025 | April 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18961174 | Automated System and Method That Services Inquiring Vessels | November 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18957623 | EXPLORATION OF RELEVANT INFORMATION FOR AUTOMATED WORKFLOWS | November 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18815598 | METHOD, APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE OF SPEECH SYNTHESIS | August 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 9 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18798014 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXTUALLY INTELLIGENT GRAPH GENERATION | August 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18791465 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING AND OPERATING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS USING CODEWORDS | August 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18790474 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF ELECTRONIC ACTIVITY CONTENT FOR RECORD OBJECTS USING MACHINE LEARNING ARCHITECTURES | July 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18748873 | IMPLEMENTING USER INPUT AND DERIVED IMAGE AND TEXT FROM ENGINEERING DRAWINGS TO MAP MANUFACTURING REQUIREMENTS TO A SUBSET OF MANUFACTURERS VIA NATURAL LANGUAGE AGENT PROGRAMS | June 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18743662 | CODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF | June 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18738076 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD | June 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18675981 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF NOISE REDUCTION | May 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18674438 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEGMENTATION OF ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES FOR IMAGE-GUIDED SURGERY | May 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 10 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18670422 | ARTIFICIAL LATENCY FOR MODERATING VOICE COMMUNICATION | May 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18664461 | TEXT-TO-SPEECH (TTS) PROCESSING | May 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18641839 | VOICE-ENABLED RECIPE SELECTION | April 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18639902 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FACILITATING HUMAN INTERACTIONS WITH PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OVER A NETWORK | April 2024 | July 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18629580 | TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING MULTI-MODAL DISCOURSE TREES | April 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18622365 | Computer-Implemented Method and Computer System for Configuring a Pretrained Text to Music AI Model and Related Methods | March 2024 | July 2024 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18614510 | CONTINUOUS DIALOG WITH A DIGITAL ASSISTANT | March 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18608559 | ADAPTING AUTOMATED ASSISTANT FUNCTIONALITY BASED ON GENERATED PROFICIENCY MEASURE(S) | March 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18605246 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR ENVIRONMENTS | March 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18592357 | METHOD FOR TRAINING KEYWORD EXTRACTION MODEL, KEYWORD EXTRACTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER DEVICE | February 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18585366 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SPEAKER-INDEPENDENT EMBEDDING FOR IDENTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION FROM AUDIO | February 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 16 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18444116 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOICE RECOGNITION USING A PERIPHERAL DEVICE | February 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18440239 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACTIONIZING COMMENTS | February 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18439631 | CROSS PRODUCT ENHANCED HARMONIC TRANSPOSITION | February 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18439616 | CROSS PRODUCT ENHANCED HARMONIC TRANSPOSITION | February 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18439478 | EFFICIENT COMBINED HARMONIC TRANSPOSITION | February 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18436911 | SPEAKER RECOGNITION IN THE CALL CENTER | February 2024 | August 2024 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18436363 | Augmented Training Set Or Test Set For Improved Classification Model Robustness | February 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18431875 | Optical Coherence Tomography in an Intelligent Automated In Vitro Fertilization and Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Platform | February 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18427538 | METHOD AND DEVICE OF GENERATING ACOUSTIC FEATURES, SPEECH MODEL TRAINING, AND SPEECH RECOGNITION | January 2024 | April 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18426726 | UNIFIED SPEECH/AUDIO CODEC (USAC) PROCESSING WINDOWS SEQUENCE BASED MODE SWITCHING | January 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18426439 | Voice Application Platform | January 2024 | May 2025 | Abandon | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18424178 | AUTOMATIC OUT OF SCOPE TRANSITION FOR CHATBOT | January 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18419629 | INVESTIGATION GENERATION IN AN OBSERVATION AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM | January 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18418307 | Automated Patent Language Generation | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18410407 | COMMAND KEYWORDS WITH INPUT DETECTION WINDOWING | January 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18408991 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, TRAINING APPARATUS AND METHOD | January 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18402896 | DYNAMIC VOICE SEARCH TRANSITIONING | January 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 14 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18401530 | LANGUAGE MODEL ORCHESTRATION | December 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18399304 | APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR THE GENERATION OF A COLLABORATION SCORE | December 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18398728 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR CUSTOMIZED STORYTELLING | December 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 9 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18396279 | WAKE-WORD DETECTION SUPPRESSION | December 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 14 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18396395 | INTENT-BASED QUERY AND RESPONSE ROUTING BETWEEN USERS AND BACKEND SERVICES | December 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18392947 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FACILITATING HUMAN INTERACTIONS WITH PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OVER A NETWORK | December 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 5 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18544209 | ARCHITECTURE FOR GENERATING QA PAIRS FROM CONTEXTS | December 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18540361 | Method and Device for Voice Activity Detection | December 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 19 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18537325 | VOICE ASSISTANT FOR WIRELESS EARPIECES | December 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 12 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18529770 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERVIEW TRAINING WITH TIME-MATCHED FEEDBACK | December 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18528082 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING STABILITY OF AN INTER-CHANNEL TIME DIFFERENCE PARAMETER | December 2023 | May 2025 | Abandon | 18 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18523227 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING INTERNAL COMMUNICATION WITHIN AN ORGANIZATION USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TO RECOMMEND IMPROVED INTERACTIONS AND IDENTIFY KEY PERSONNEL | November 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18514289 | SINGING VOICE SEPARATION WITH DEEP U-NET CONVOLUTIONAL NETWORKS | November 2023 | August 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18514666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CAPTURING, PROCESSING, AND RENDERING ONE OR MORE CONTEXT-AWARE MOMENT-ASSOCIATING ELEMENTS | November 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18513122 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES | November 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18512606 | COMMUNICATION WITH USER PRESENCE | November 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18506937 | MULTI-MODAL INPUTS FOR VOICE COMMANDS | November 2023 | April 2025 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18505708 | GENERATIVE LANGUAGE MODEL FOR FEW-SHOT ASPECT-BASED SENTIMENT ANALYSIS | November 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 15 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18388389 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CORRECTING A VOICE QUERY BASED ON A SUBSEQUENT VOICE QUERY WITH A LOWER PRONUNCIATION RATE | November 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18504312 | VOICE COMMAND SCRUBBING | November 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 15 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18504879 | AUDIO DECODER FOR INTERLEAVING SIGNALS | November 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18502953 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED AUDIO-VIDEO CONFERENCES | November 2023 | May 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18387377 | JOINING USERS TO COMMUNICATIONS VIA VOICE COMMANDS | November 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18385710 | NETWORK SOURCE IDENTIFICATION VIA AUDIO SIGNALS | October 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 16 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18384542 | PROTECTION AGAINST VOICE MISAPPROPRIATION IN A VOICE INTERACTION SYSTEM | October 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18496306 | MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS USING MACHINE LEARNING AND AN ANATOMICAL VECTOR | October 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 8 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18383314 | AUTOMATED ASSISTANT INTERACTION PREDICTION USING FUSION OF VISUAL AND AUDIO INPUT | October 2023 | March 2025 | Allow | 17 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18489606 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING OF MULTI-CHANNEL AMBISONICS AUDIO DATA | October 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18488735 | Predicting Parametric Vocoder Parameters From Prosodic Features | October 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18487264 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC IMAGES TO DETECT CONTAMINATION IN SPECIMEN PREPARATIONS | October 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 11 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18487232 | Audio Encoding and Decoding Using Presentation Transform Parameters | October 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 8 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18477466 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MACHINE-LEARNING BASED SENSOR ANALYSIS AND VASCULAR TREE SEGMENTATION | September 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 20 | 4 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18373889 | RESOURCE-RESPONSIVE MOTION CAPTURE | September 2023 | February 2025 | Allow | 17 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18471932 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF FACILITATING HUMAN INTERACTIONS WITH PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OVER A NETWORK | September 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18472167 | PROVIDING PERSONALIZED PROMPTS TO USERS BASED ON DOCUMENTS IN CLOUD STORAGE | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18370683 | GENERATING MULTI-MODAL RESPONSE(S) THROUGH UTILIZATION OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL(S) | September 2023 | October 2023 | Allow | 1 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18369291 | CONFIGURABLE OUTPUT DATA FORMATS | September 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18369401 | SPEECH ENHANCEMENT METHODS AND PROCESSING CIRCUITS PERFORMING SPEECH ENHANCEMENT METHODS | September 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 21 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18369627 | AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT OF MUTED RESPONSE SETTING | September 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18368975 | EFFICIENT AND LOW LATENCY AUTOMATED ASSISTANT CONTROL OF SMART DEVICES | September 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18468673 | LINE-BASED IMAGE REGISTRATION AND CROSS-IMAGE ANNOTATION DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS | September 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18368214 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISAMBIGUATING A VOICE SEARCH QUERY | September 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 9 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18244738 | REGULATING ASSISTANT RESPONSIVENESS ACCORDING TO CHARACTERISTICS OF A MULTI-ASSISTANT ENVIRONMENT | September 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18243800 | ACOUSTIC EVENT DETECTION | September 2023 | April 2024 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18460141 | VOICE DETECTION OPTIMIZATION USING SOUND METADATA | September 2023 | October 2024 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18459982 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE WAKE WORD DETECTION | September 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18458416 | IMAGE DATA PROCESSING TO INCREASE FOLLOW-UP ANALYSIS FIDELITY | August 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18455165 | INTENT-BASED QUERY AND RESPONSE ROUTING BETWEEN USERS AND BACKEND SERVICES | August 2023 | September 2023 | Allow | 1 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18236760 | GENERATIVE SUMMARIES FOR SEARCH RESULTS | August 2023 | November 2023 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18236088 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ESTIMATING VALUES FROM IMAGES | August 2023 | November 2024 | Allow | 14 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18452697 | DIGITAL FILTERBANK FOR SPECTRAL ENVELOPE ADJUSTMENT | August 2023 | July 2024 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18235755 | INTELLIGENT DEVICE ARBITRATION AND CONTROL | August 2023 | September 2024 | Allow | 13 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18235707 | GENERATING AND/OR CAUSING RENDERING OF VIDEO PLAYBACK-BASED ASSISTANT SUGGESTION(S) THAT LINK TO OTHER APPLICATION(S) | August 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18235726 | HOT-WORD FREE PRE-EMPTION OF AUTOMATED ASSISTANT RESPONSE PRESENTATION | August 2023 | June 2024 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18450588 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENT STRUCTURE BASED UNSUPERVISED LONG-FORM TECHNICAL QUESTION GENERATION | August 2023 | June 2025 | Allow | 22 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18546387 | DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | August 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 22 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18232144 | GENERATIVE SUMMARIES FOR SEARCH RESULTS | August 2023 | February 2024 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18232112 | GENERATIVE SUMMARIES FOR SEARCH RESULTS | August 2023 | December 2023 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18231660 | METHOD AND VOICE ASSISTANCE APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN INTELLIGENCE RESPONSE | August 2023 | January 2025 | Allow | 18 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18366890 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UNSUPERVISED PARAPHRASE MINING | August 2023 | May 2025 | Allow | 21 | 3 | 0 | Yes | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for art-unit 2656.
With a 23.5% reversal rate, the PTAB affirms the examiner's rejections in the vast majority of cases. This reversal rate is in the bottom 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals face significant challenges here.
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, 46.8% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.
⚠ 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.
Art Unit 2656 is part of Group 2650 in Technology Center 2600. This art unit has examined 12,731 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 84.9%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 23 months.
Art Unit 2656's allowance rate of 84.9% places it in the 78% percentile among all USPTO art units. This art unit has a significantly higher allowance rate than most art units at the USPTO.
Applications in Art Unit 2656 receive an average of 1.54 office actions before reaching final disposition (in the 27% percentile). The median prosecution time is 23 months (in the 84% percentile).
When prosecuting applications in this art unit, consider the following:
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