Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.
| Application Number | Title | Filing Date | Disposal Date | Disposition | Time (months) | Office Actions | Restrictions | Interview | Appeal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19068482 | Method and System for Multi-Level Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer Design | March 2025 | May 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 19057610 | Method and System for Multi-Level Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer Design Featuring Sequencing of Large Language Models | February 2025 | April 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 19056496 | Method and System for Optimizing Use of Retrieval Augmented Generation Pipelines in Generative Artificial Intelligence Applications | February 2025 | May 2025 | Allow | 2 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 19051820 | Method and System for Optimizing Use of Retrieval Augmented Generation Pipelines in Generative Artificial Intelligence Applications | February 2025 | May 2025 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 19049554 | MULTIMODAL HUMAN-MACHINE COLLABORATIVE INTERACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD | February 2025 | April 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 19039743 | CUSTOMIZABLE VOICE MESSAGING PLATFORM | January 2025 | April 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 19034853 | EFFICIENT CACHING AND RETRIEVAL OF RESPONSES IN CONVERSATION SERVICE APPLICATION COMMUNICATION SESSIONS | January 2025 | April 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 19032030 | Interactive Neural-Symbolic Orchestration of Subjective Store Procedures | January 2025 | June 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 19031223 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ABSTRACT OF SMART CONTRACT BASED ON LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL AND SEMANTIC ENHANCEMENT | January 2025 | March 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 19027799 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ACCENT MIMICKING | January 2025 | June 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 19018528 | Smart Device System | January 2025 | April 2025 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18999918 | Pitch-Based Speech Conversion Model Training Method and Speech Conversion System | December 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 19000557 | ADAPTIVE THEME EXTRACTION FROM COMMUNICATION DATA IN A COMMUNICATION CENTER ENVIRONMENT | December 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18999619 | MEDICAL EXAMINATION SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR | December 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18983969 | BACKWARD-COMPATIBLE INTEGRATION OF HARMONIC TRANSPOSER FOR HIGH FREQUENCY RECONSTRUCTION OF AUDIO SIGNALS | December 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18982478 | BACKWARD-COMPATIBLE INTEGRATION OF HIGH FREQUENCY RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES FOR AUDIO SIGNALS | December 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18982382 | BACKWARD-COMPATIBLE INTEGRATION OF HIGH FREQUENCY RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES FOR AUDIO SIGNALS | December 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18982303 | INTEGRATION OF HIGH FREQUENCY RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES WITH REDUCED POST-PROCESSING DELAY | December 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18982254 | INTEGRATION OF HIGH FREQUENCY RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES WITH REDUCED POST-PROCESSING DELAY | December 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18973338 | METHOD OF TRAINING LANGUAGE MODEL FOR CYBERSECURITY AND SYSTEM PERFORMING THE SAME | December 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18971687 | Method and System for Protecting and Removing Private Information Used in Large Language Models | December 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18967472 | System and method for speech-enabled adaptive training for human pilot verbal data capture and reporting for flight operations quality assurance | December 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18961216 | CHAT INTEGRATION WITH GRID-BASED DATA STRUCTURE | November 2024 | February 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 |
| 18961316 | ROBUST METHODS FOR AUTOMATED AUDIO SIGNAL TO TEXT SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS | November 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18957799 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AN UPDATED TERMINAL NODE PROJECTION | November 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18957623 | EXPLORATION OF RELEVANT INFORMATION FOR AUTOMATED WORKFLOWS | November 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18953247 | Method and System for Multi-Level Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer Design | November 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18951670 | GENERATING SYNTHETIC USER DATA FOR TRAINING AND EVALUATION OF MACHINE LEARNING-BASED LANGUAGE MODELS | November 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18945524 | MULTI-SPEAKER SPEECH SIGNAL TO TEXT SIGNAL VALIDATION | November 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18940483 | LOW BITRATE AUDIO ENCODING/DECODING SCHEME HAVING CASCADED SWITCHES | November 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18940536 | LOW BITRATE AUDIO ENCODING/DECODING SCHEME HAVING CASCADED SWITCHES | November 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18934453 | NATURAL LANGUAGE SURVEY SYSTEM | November 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18934384 | Method and System for Multi-Level Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer Design | November 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 1 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18935017 | ACCURACY AND PROVIDING EXPLAINABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY FOR QUERY RESPONSE USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS | November 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18935039 | ADVANCED MAXIMAL ENTROPY MEDIA COMPRESSION PROCESSING | November 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18935013 | BAYESIAN GRAPH-BASED RETRIEVAL-AUGMENTED GENERATION WITH SYNTHETIC FEEDBACK LOOP (BG-RAG-SFL) | November 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18934983 | Audio Compression With Generative Adversarial Networks | November 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18934298 | Method and System for Multi-Level Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer Design | November 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18933483 | CONVERSATION DIALOGUE ORCHESTRATION IN VIRTUAL ASSISTANT COMMUNICATION SESSIONS | October 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18931573 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TARGETED INTERACTIONS WITH COMPUTATIONAL MODELS | October 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18927212 | INTENT RECOGNITION METHOD, APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM | October 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18926097 | AI-GENERATED MUSIC DERIVATIVE WORKS | October 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 3 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18925261 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND EXTRACTING DATA FROM MACHINE LEARNING MODEL OUTPUTS | October 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18923851 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR THE AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OR USE OF DATA, INCLUDING USE OF A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL | October 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18923078 | NETWORK THREAT INTELLIGENCE RELATIONAL TRIPLE COMBINED EXTRACTION METHOD BASED ON DEEP LEARNING | October 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18921923 | Method and System for Multi-Level Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer Design | October 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18921715 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING | October 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18919419 | INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR DIGITAL PERSON DIALOGUE BASED ON INTERNET OF THINGS | October 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18914537 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR THE AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OR USE OF DATA, INCLUDING USE OF A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL | October 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18914717 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR THE AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OR USE OF DATA, INCLUDING USE OF A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL | October 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18914686 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR THE AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OR USE OF DATA, INCLUDING USE OF A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL | October 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18914659 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR THE AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OR USE OF DATA, INCLUDING USE OF A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL | October 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 8 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18908209 | SYSTEM THAT CONDUCTS AND EVALUATES ORAL QUESTION-AND-ANSWER SESSIONS USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | October 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 2 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18900253 | LOW-LATENCY CONVERSATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) ARCHITECTURE WITH A PARALLELIZED IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS FEEDBACK LOOP | September 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 6 | 2 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18900278 | AUDIO TURN UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM | September 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18896230 | Flight Compliance System Integration of ATC Transcription and ADS-B Data | September 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18889954 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY-GENERATED GUIDED DIALOGUE USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | September 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18883629 | TELECOMMUNICATION AND MULTIMEDIA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS | September 2024 | January 2025 | Abandon | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18883658 | TELECOMMUNICATION AND MULTIMEDIA MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS | September 2024 | January 2025 | Abandon | 4 | 2 | 0 | No | No |
| 18882352 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING TEMPORAL ANALYSIS | September 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18826342 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-LEVEL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SUPERCOMPUTER DESIGN | September 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18827005 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO ASSESS AND EXTRACT DATA FROM USER INPUTS | September 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18823584 | PARTNER MANAGEMENT RUNTIME ENFORCEMENT | September 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18819680 | AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL, AUDIO STREAM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM | August 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18819866 | AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL, AUDIO STREAM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM | August 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18819733 | AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL, AUDIO STREAM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM | August 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18819804 | AUDIO ENCODER, AUDIO DECODER, METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING AN AUDIO SIGNAL, AUDIO STREAM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM | August 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 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 |
| 18813903 | GENERATING AND OPERATING PERSONALIZED ARTIFICIAL ENTITIES | August 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18812707 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZING USE OF RETRIEVAL AUGMENTED GENERATION PIPELINES IN GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS | August 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 9 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18810148 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRE-PROCESSING FOR A MULTI-MODEL MESSAGE GENERATION ARCHITECTURE | August 2024 | March 2025 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18807592 | Conversational Device for Generating a Specific Personnel�s Virtual Personality Using Large Language Model | August 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 6 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18801421 | Method and System for Multi-Level Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer Design Featuring Sequencing of Large Language Models | August 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18798929 | SPEECH CONVERSION METHOD AND APPARATUS, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE | August 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18799635 | ADVANCED TRANSFORMER ARCHITECTURE WITH EPISTEMIC EMBEDDING FOR ENHANCED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING | August 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18798014 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXTUALLY INTELLIGENT GRAPH GENERATION | August 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18795345 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-LEVEL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SUPERCOMPUTER DESIGN | August 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 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 |
| 18790538 | SPEAKER CONTROL BASED ON SIGNAL SOURCE | July 2024 | December 2024 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18790740 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-LEVEL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SUPERCOMPUTER DESIGN | July 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 5 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18787514 | FOUNDATIONAL AI MODEL FOR CAPTURING AND ENCODING AUDIO WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SEMANTIC ANALYSIS AND WITHOUT LOW PASS OR HIGH PASS FILTERS | July 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 4 | 0 | 1 | No | No |
| 18786402 | ADAPTATION TO DETECTED FLUCTUATIONS IN OUTPUTS FROM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS OVER TIME | July 2024 | October 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18786130 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-LEVEL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SUPERCOMPUTER DESIGN | July 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 2 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18780385 | A SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TWO-WAY LANGUAGE TRANSLATION IN A HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT | July 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18777134 | MULTIPLE DIGITAL ASSISTANT COORDINATION IN VEHICULAR ENVIRONMENTS | July 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 6 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18775199 | GENERATING PARALLEL DATA FOR REAL-TIME SPEECH FORM CONVERSION | July 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 4 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18770316 | MULTIPLE CONCURRENT VOICE ASSISTANTS | July 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18767905 | DEVICES FOR NON-AUDIBLE SPEECH DETECTION | July 2024 | November 2024 | Allow | 60 | 1 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18690896 | VOICE CONVERSION METHOD, MODEL TRAINING METHOD, DEVICE, MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT | July 2024 | April 2025 | Allow | 13 | 0 | 0 | Yes | No |
| 18760571 | PERSONALIZING USER INTERFACE DISPLAYS IN REAL-TIME | July 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 7 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18758444 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING INPUT TO AND INCREASING PROCESSING SPEEDS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING MODELS | June 2024 | May 2025 | Allow | 10 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18754280 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC ALIGNMENT OF PHONETIC CONTENT FOR REAL-TIME ACCENT CONVERSION | June 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18755245 | Natural Language Processing Using Language Neutral Verb Expression Patterns | June 2024 | February 2025 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 1 | Yes | No |
| 18754146 | SPEECH BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE NEURAL DECODING SYSTEMS BASED ON CHINESE LANGUAGE AND IMPLEMENTATION METHODS THEREOF | June 2024 | September 2024 | Allow | 3 | 0 | 0 | No | No |
| 18751972 | DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF PARAMETER SET USED IN HOT WORD FREE ADAPTATION OF AUTOMATED ASSISTANT | June 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 11 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
| 18752273 | TRAINING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPEECH TRANSLATION MODEL, SPEECH TRANSLATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DEVICE | June 2024 | January 2025 | Allow | 7 | 1 | 0 | No | 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 |
| 18746439 | METHODS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE MODEL TRAINING IN NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING (NLU) SYSTEMS | June 2024 | June 2025 | Allow | 12 | 1 | 0 | No | No |
This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for group 2650.
With a 26.7% 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, 39.3% 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.
Group 2650 is part of Technology Center 2600. This group has examined 71,565 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 83.2%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 25 months.
Applications in Group 2650 receive an average of 1.68 office actions before reaching final disposition. The median prosecution time is 25 months.
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.
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