USPTO Group 2180 Prosecution Statistics

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19371910CXL over ScaleUp Ethernet (SUE), UALink, NVLink, Ethernet, or PHY based on IEEE 802.3October 2025February 2026Allow300NoNo
19371779UALink Non-Transparent Memory Bridging for AI Infrastructures Comprising GPUs, Accelerators, and Memory SwitchesOctober 2025February 2026Allow400YesNo
19371994Multi-Protocol Retimer Enabling Transparent and Non-Transparent Bridging for Memory Fabrics including PCIe, CXL, or UALinkOctober 2025March 2026Allow410NoNo
19371722Memory Pooling and Sharing Enabling Scalable LLM Inference over Scaleup AI FabricsOctober 2025January 2026Allow200NoNo
19356584QUANTIFYING EVIDENCE FOR REGULATORY CONTROL AND MECHANISMS WITH COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS METROLOGY BY COMPUTATION METHODS AND SYSTEMSOctober 2025January 2026Allow300NoNo
19297476Digital Twin and Physical Twin Management with Integrated External Feedback within a Digital Engineering PlatformAugust 2025February 2026Allow600YesNo
19277258Quantization and Low Precision AI ProcessorJuly 2025January 2026Allow610YesNo
19273567SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPLEMENTING DIRECTIONAL OPERAND BROADCAST AND MULTIPLY-ACCUMULATE EXECUTION USING A CONFIGURABLE PATCH MESH IN A MULTI-CORE PROCESSING ARRAY OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUITJuly 2025November 2025Allow410YesNo
19146501POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM FOR ADD-IN CARDJuly 2025March 2026Allow800NoNo
19250883Cryptographically Attested, Continuously Self Learning Impact Rating System for Charitable OrganizationsJune 2025January 2026Allow700NoNo
19248463BIM-BASED HANGING BASKET DESIGN METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMJune 2025February 2026Abandon810NoNo
19240574DRILLING DECISION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MULTIMODAL LITHOFACIES PREDICTION AND DECISION-MAKINGJune 2025November 2025Allow510NoNo
19139813METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DMA BETWEEN ACCELERATOR CARDS, AND ACCELERATOR CARD, ACCELERATION PLATFORM AND MEDIUMJune 2025February 2026Allow800NoNo
19236336SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTIMATING COMPONENT DEGRADATION IN AN INVERTERJune 2025November 2025Allow510NoNo
19236772META-LEARNING STRATEGY BASED METHOD FOR EARLY WARNING OF ATTENUATION OF BEARING CAPACITY OF SOFT SOIL PILE FOUNDATIONJune 2025August 2025Allow200NoNo
19233897AGENT INSTANTIATION AND CALIBRATION FOR MULTI-AGENT SIMULATOR PLATFORMJune 2025January 2026Allow710YesNo
19230262SYSTEM FOR FABRICATING WATCH PROTECTION FILMS BASED ON WATCH MODEL PROFILE DATAJune 2025November 2025Allow510NoNo
19212732METHOD FOR PREPARING SMALL-SCALE MODEL OF BUCKLING-CONTROLLED BRACE DEVICE WITH ROTATIONALLY SYMMETRIC CROSS SECTIONMay 2025October 2025Allow510NoNo
19210515Programmable Stacked Processor with Simultaneous Execution of all Program Steps Over a Data StreamMay 2025September 2025Allow410YesNo
19209834METHOD FOR SIMULATING CONSTRUCTION OF SHAFT BORING MACHINE, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCTMay 2025October 2025Allow510NoNo
19197754Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assisted Digital Documentation for Digital EngineeringMay 2025October 2025Allow610YesNo
19196735Safety and stability analysis method for new energy power system based on Lyapunov functionMay 2025March 2026Abandon1120YesNo
19192449MODELING SIMULATION AND MULTI-FIELD COUPLING ANALYSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC RAILGUN SYSTEMApril 2025September 2025Allow400YesNo
19124448System and Method of Transmitting A SignalApril 2025December 2025Allow800NoNo
19122952BOARD FOR CXL DATA TRANSMISSION, METHOD FOR DATA TRANSMISSION CONTROL AND DEVICEApril 2025December 2025Allow700NoNo
19182479DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OPERATION OF DATAApril 2025September 2025Allow510NoNo
19182575METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING MULTI-CYCLE PRESSURE-SEPARATED WATER INJECTION IN OILFIELDS BASED ON IMPROVED BUTTERFLY ALGORITHMSApril 2025September 2025Allow510NoNo
19179588QUANTIZED NEURAL NETWORK CIRCUITApril 2025January 2026Allow910YesNo
19177608System and Method for Energy-Aware Distributed Edge-Cloud Homomorphic Compression Using Adaptive Neural NetworksApril 2025November 2025Allow710NoNo
19176288SYSTEM HAVING MULTIPLE BUSES AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PROCESSING CORE IN THE SYSTEMApril 2025August 2025Allow410NoNo
19176726METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY PLANSApril 2025June 2025Allow200NoNo
19174940SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY RECONSTRUCTION METHOD AND SYSTEM INTEGRATING MACHINE LEARNING AND SPATIAL FREQUENCY ANALYSISApril 2025September 2025Allow610NoNo
19173798ANNOTATION TOOLS FOR RECONSTRUCTING THREE-DIMENSIONAL ROOF GEOMETRYApril 2025August 2025Allow410YesNo
19170852Associativity and Resolution of Computer-Based Models and DataApril 2025November 2025Allow720YesNo
19096084METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DYNAMICALLY OPTIMIZING AND MODIFYING ALLOCATION OF VIRTUAL GRAPHICAL PROCESSING UNITSMarch 2025December 2025Allow910NoNo
19117007METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONFIGURING HOST SYSTEM,APPARATUS, COMPUTING SYSTEM, AND NONTRANSITORY READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMMarch 2025November 2025Allow700NoNo
19116303BUS MODULE AND SERVERMarch 2025February 2026Allow1020YesNo
19093184METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR EVALUATING POWER SUPPLY DESIGNMarch 2025February 2026Allow1120NoNo
19088830DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING DMAMarch 2025February 2026Allow1120YesNo
19113919DIGITAL FILTER CIRCUIT, DIGITAL FILTERING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DIGITAL FILTERING PROGRAMMarch 2025December 2025Allow910NoNo
19083809METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENHANCING A CONTEXT FOR USE IN PROCESSING, BY A PLURALITY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AGENTS, A REQUESTMarch 2025July 2025Allow410NoNo
19083971METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RANKING A PLURALITY OF WORKER AGENTS BASED ON A USER REQUESTMarch 2025June 2025Allow310YesNo
19083631THERMOSPHERE-IONOSPHERE MODEL UPDATING FOR LOW-EARTH ORBITSMarch 2025August 2025Allow510YesNo
19111430DATA CENTRE COOLING OPTIMISATIONMarch 2025December 2025Abandon910NoNo
19075826CIRCULAR PIPE FILAMENT WINDING PROCESS SIMULATION METHOD, SYSTEM, MEDIUM, AND PRODUCTMarch 2025August 2025Allow510YesNo
19072818METHODS FOR TOUGHENING OF FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETEMarch 2025May 2025Allow300YesNo
19071693SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR FORMAL VERIFICATION OF COMPUTER PLATFORMSMarch 2025May 2025Allow300YesNo
19070470METHOD FOR MATCHING GUIDE VANE AND OUTLET PASSAGE OF LOW-LIFT PUMP STATIONMarch 2025December 2025Abandon910NoNo
19066172DECISION-MAKING METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESIDENTIAL OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT BASED ON LANDSCAPE APPROACH MOTIVATIONFebruary 2025November 2025Allow910YesNo
19067753TEST METHOD FOR ALGORITHM APPLIED TO HANDLING EQUIPMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMFebruary 2025August 2025Allow510NoNo
19066395WELL PATTERN OPTIMIZATION METHOD BASED ON CO2 INCOMPLETE MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT CHARACTERISTICSFebruary 2025December 2025Allow1010NoNo
19064936METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING LIMIT SCOURING STATE OF RIVERBED IN DOWNSTREAM RIVER CHANNEL OF RESERVOIR GROUPFebruary 2025January 2026Abandon1120NoNo
19063259VERIFICATION SYSTEM, VERIFICATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMFebruary 2025April 2025Allow200NoNo
19059359WING-MOUNTED TURBINE FOR GENERATING ELECTRICITY AND INCREASING THRUSTFebruary 2025April 2025Allow210NoNo
19059085DYNAMIC TRAFFIC PATTERN ANALYSIS AND RATE-LIMIT ADJUSTMENTFebruary 2025July 2025Allow510YesNo
19058053USB HUB INTERNAL DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD AND USB HUB CHIPFebruary 2025June 2025Allow400NoNo
19058057Method for Probabilistic Assessment of Seismic Resistance of Long-Span Arch Bridge Based on Time-Frequency Hybrid ComputationFebruary 2025August 2025Allow610NoNo
19057696DEVICE AND METHOD OF COMPUTING AN OUTPUT VALUE OF A MATHEMATICAL FUNCTION, AND METHOD OF DESIGNING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR THE SAMEFebruary 2025September 2025Allow711YesNo
18853472DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BLADE MODELINGFebruary 2025August 2025Allow1010NoNo
19054951OPTIMIZATION METHOD FOR FUEL CONTROL DEVICE STRUCTURE BASED ON ADDITIVE MANUFACTURINGFebruary 2025August 2025Allow610NoNo
19051126ADAPTIVE MODEL UPDATING ALGORITHM FOR PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX ENGINEERING STRUCTURESFebruary 2025September 2025Allow710NoNo
19046539METHOD OF RECONSTRUCTING AND RANDOMLY GENERATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL PROFILES OF RAILWAY BALLAST PARTICLESFebruary 2025August 2025Allow610YesNo
19046232SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GHOST BRIDGINGFebruary 2025July 2025Allow610NoNo
19045371OPTIMIZATION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC SOILING MODEL PARAMETERSFebruary 2025October 2025Allow920YesNo
19040277METHOD FOR PREDICTING VIBRATION RESPONSE AND STIFFNESS DEGRADATION OF HELICAL GEARJanuary 2025March 2026Abandon1320NoNo
19037189DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT OF BUS BANDWIDTH FOR SENDING TENSORS TO NEURAL PROCESSING UNITSJanuary 2025May 2025Allow300NoNo
19035267METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING POSITIONS OF LAMP BEADS OF LED LIGHT STRING IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL LAYOUTJanuary 2025January 2026Abandon1220NoNo
18997580ASSISTANCE METHOD, ASSISTANCE DEVICE, AND ASSISTANCE PROGRAMJanuary 2025September 2025Allow810YesNo
19032967LOW LATENCY IN-LINE NETWORK COMPUTE PLATFORMJanuary 2025November 2025Allow900YesNo
19031488METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ARRANGING SPARSE SENSOR EMBEDDED WITH PHYSICAL INFORMATION, AND DEVICEJanuary 2025July 2025Allow610NoNo
19028818MATRIX DECOMPOSITION STRUCTURE OF TWO-CHANNEL QUADRATURE MIRROR FILTER BANK AND COEFFICIENT DESIGN METHOD THEREOFJanuary 2025June 2025Allow510YesNo
19027621ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)-BASED METHOD FOR NON-CONTACT MEASUREMENT OF SHEET RESISTANCE OF A CONDUCTIVE FILM MATERIALJanuary 2025March 2025Allow200NoNo
19026495PLP OPTIMIZED PLACEMENT METHOD FOR A WIND FARM OF PLATEAU-MOUNTAIN REGIONJanuary 2025May 2025Allow400NoNo
19026461Method for GNN-BASED Automatic Bay ZoningJanuary 2025March 2026Abandon1420NoNo
19026409MODEL-BASED ADAPTIVE MULTI-APERTURE OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHODJanuary 2025May 2025Allow410NoNo
19027229METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TEMPERATURE OF THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF FUEL CELL, DEVICE, MEDIUM AND PRODUCTJanuary 2025July 2025Allow610NoNo
19031317SEMI-PHYSICAL SIMULATION VERIFICATION METHOD FOR CONTROL STRATEGY OF DISTRIBUTED HYBRID POWER SYSTEMJanuary 2025March 2025Allow200NoNo
19023632MODELING METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CRYSTAL PLASTICITY FINITE ELEMENT MODEL FOR WELD MICROSTRUCTURE CRYSTAL PLASTICITYJanuary 2025October 2025Abandon910NoNo
19026332VIRTUAL DRILLING MODELING METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON OUTCROP FINE CHARACTERIZATIONJanuary 2025September 2025Allow810NoNo
19021366METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRECISELY DESIGNING INTEGRATED DIE-CASTING STRUCTURESJanuary 2025February 2026Abandon1320NoNo
19021615METHOD, DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR AUTOMATIC STONE ARRANGEMENTJanuary 2025September 2025Allow810NoNo
19019795DESIGN METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CUTTING STRUCTURE OF PDC DRILL BIT WITH SPIRAL BLADESJanuary 2025September 2025Allow820NoNo
19017419Protocol-Aware Provisioning of Resource over CXL FabricsJanuary 2025June 2025Allow500YesNo
19017423Host-to-Device CXL Communication including Multi-Fabric Bridging, also over NVLink, UALink, and EthernetJanuary 2025May 2025Allow410NoNo
19017420Streamlined CXL Memory Fabric with Lightweight Scalable ProvisioningJanuary 2025December 2025Allow1120NoNo
19017416Translating Between CXL.mem and CXL.cache Read TransactionsJanuary 2025March 2025Allow200NoNo
19017408Scalable Virtualization of GPUs and Compute Accelerators in a Switch Providing CXL Resource-as-a-Service of Memory, NVMe or RDMA Networking via SLD Agnostic ProvisioningJanuary 2025August 2025Allow710NoNo
19013044METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING DIGITAL TWIN SYSTEM FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING PROCESS WITH LIFECYCLE DATA MANAGEMENTJanuary 2025August 2025Allow710NoNo
19012820EFFICIENT METHOD FOR SOLVING ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD OF RADIATION SOURCE LAYER IN LAYERED LOSSY MEDIUMJanuary 2025March 2026Abandon1420NoNo
19007644METHOD FOR INKJET PRINTING A SPECTACLE LENSJanuary 2025October 2025Allow1020YesNo
19007538METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR THREE-DIRECTIONAL DISPLACEMENT MONITORING OF BUILDING BY FUSION OF INSAR DATA AND PHYSICAL KNOWLEDGEJanuary 2025January 2026Allow1220NoNo
19007347AUTOMATIC DESIGN METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MODULAR COLD- FORMED THIN-WALLED STEEL STRUCTUREDecember 2024January 2026Abandon1320NoNo
19006480ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD SIMULATION METHOD BASED ON FACE-CENTERED CUBIC AND SUBGRID TECHNIQUEDecember 2024March 2025Allow300YesNo
19006304CONSTRUCTION METHOD, COLLISION SIMULATION METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR SIMPLIFIED RAIL VEHICLE MODELSDecember 2024February 2026Allow1320NoNo
19005765CALCULATOR CAPABLE OF OUTPUTTING RESULTS BASED ON HANDWRITTEN FORMULASDecember 2024April 2025Allow410NoNo
19006026AUTOMATIC REPAIR METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMDecember 2024December 2025Allow1220NoNo
19006193HIGH-TEMPORAL-ACCURACY POWER GLITCH FAULT INJECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CRYPTOGRAPHIC CHIPDecember 2024September 2025Allow910NoNo
19006198HIGH-SPATIAL-ACCURACY ELECTROMAGNETIC FAULT INJECTION METHOD FOR CRYPTOGRAPHIC CHIPDecember 2024August 2025Allow810YesNo
19002782RVV1.0 Extension-Based FFT Butterfly Operation Method for Complex SequencesDecember 2024February 2026Abandon1420NoNo
19002787Illegal Address Mask Method and Device for Cores of DSPDecember 2024March 2025Allow200NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for group 2180.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
1540
Examiner Affirmed
1029
(66.8%)
Examiner Reversed
511
(33.2%)
Reversal Percentile
53.2%
Higher than average

What This Means

With a 33.2% 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
4882
Allowed After Appeal Filing
1734
(35.5%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
3148
(64.5%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
75.3%
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, 35.5% 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.

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.

Group 2180 - Prosecution Statistics Summary

Executive Summary

Group 2180 is part of Technology Center 2100. This group has examined 65,779 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 80.8%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 32 months.

Prosecution Patterns

Applications in Group 2180 receive an average of 1.93 office actions before reaching final disposition. The median prosecution time is 32 months.

Strategic Overview

This group-level data aggregates statistics across multiple art units. For more targeted prosecution strategies, review the individual art unit and examiner statistics within this group.

Important Disclaimer

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