USPTO Technology Center 2600 Prosecution Statistics

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19396753IMAGE READING SYSTEMS, METHODS AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PERFORMING ENTITY EXTRACTION, GROUPING AND VALIDATIONNovember 2025March 2026Allow300NoNo
19395111SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RENDERING OPERATIVE GUIDANCE OVERLAYNovember 2025March 2026Allow400NoNo
19390743MULTI-ACCESS POINT TARGET WAKE TIME INFORMATION REQUESTNovember 2025February 2026Allow300NoNo
19391459SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SPECTRUM ANALYSIS UTILIZING SIGNAL DEGRADATION DATANovember 2025March 2026Allow400YesNo
19390398METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR NEURAL NETWORK HEARING AIDNovember 2025March 2026Allow400NoNo
19388375INFECTION DETECTION USING IMAGE DATA ANALYSISNovember 2025March 2026Allow400NoNo
19385991Sidelink Resource Allocation Mode SelectionNovember 2025February 2026Allow300NoNo
19386102USE OF IMPERFECT PATTERNS TO ENCODE DATA ON SURFACESNovember 2025March 2026Allow400NoNo
19382207System and Method for Persistent Cognitive Machines Using a Digital Thought ArchitectureNovember 2025March 2026Allow410NoNo
19375380Timing Advance Reporting Procedure in Non-Terrestrial NetworksOctober 2025February 2026Allow400NoNo
19374124CONTROL METHOD FOR WIRELESS RF CLOCK OSCILLATOROctober 2025January 2026Allow300NoNo
19371496SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING OPTIMIZED NETWORK RESOURCESOctober 2025March 2026Allow500YesNo
19370507COMPLEX COMPUTING NETWORK FOR IMPROVING ESTABLISHMENT AND ACCESS OF COMMUNICATION AMONG COMPUTING DEVICESOctober 2025February 2026Allow300NoNo
19368026Sidelink Transport Block Size DeterminationOctober 2025January 2026Allow300NoNo
19369096SIGNAL TRANSMISSION METHOD AND DEVICE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMOctober 2025February 2026Allow400NoNo
19364455SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING OPTIMIZED NETWORK RESOURCESOctober 2025December 2025Allow200YesNo
19360673SCALABLE SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING COLOR MANAGEMENT COMPRISING VARYING LEVELS OF METADATAOctober 2025January 2026Allow300NoNo
19359117SERDES TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER UTILIZING SINGLE FREQUENCY PHASE AMPLITUDE MODULATIONOctober 2025January 2026Allow300NoNo
19358773SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TELEMETRY INFORMATION-BASED NETWORK ROLE REASSIGNMENTS IN WIRELESS BACKHAUL MESH NETWORKOctober 2025February 2026Allow410NoNo
19358926SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES HAVING DATABASES FOR ELECTRONIC SPECTRUM MANAGEMENTOctober 2025March 2026Allow500NoNo
19358403ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM THAT GENERATES QUESTIONS AND EVALUATES ORAL READINGS AND RESPONSESOctober 2025January 2026Allow300NoNo
19356209MULTI-APERTURE CAMERAS WITH AT LEAST ONE TWO STATE ZOOM CAMERAOctober 2025December 2025Allow200YesNo
19357063NETWORKS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED WILDFIRE MITIGATION, PROTECTION AND SUPPRESSIONOctober 2025January 2026Allow300YesNo
19354806Mobile device case with tactile elements spaced for discrete sensationOctober 2025February 2026Allow410YesNo
19353927WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SPECTRUM SENSING ACROSS MULTIPLE FREQUENCY BANDSOctober 2025December 2025Allow200NoNo
19352532PHYSICAL REHABILITATION WRITING STYLUSOctober 2025December 2025Allow200NoNo
19349352Cyclic Prefix Extension in Sidelink OperationOctober 2025January 2026Allow300NoNo
19346616REPEATER DEVICE, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR ULTRA-LOW LATENCY DATA FRAME ROUTING USING LABELLINGOctober 2025February 2026Allow410NoNo
19344656VIRTUAL FIBER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPECTRUM AVAILABILITY-BASED CONTROL OF WIRELESS BACKHAUL MESH NETWORKSeptember 2025December 2025Allow300NoNo
19343069RING LAMP SUPPORT FOR SHOOTING DEVICESeptember 2025March 2026Allow610NoNo
19343976Self-Supervised Multimodal Structured Illumination Microscopic Reconstruction Method and SystemSeptember 2025January 2026Allow300NoNo
19342203OPEN EAR SYSTEM USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) DRIVEN AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSINGSeptember 2025January 2026Allow300NoNo
19338414Type of Early Timing Advance AcquisitionSeptember 2025January 2026Allow300NoNo
19338646SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AUDIO DESCRIPTIONSSeptember 2025December 2025Allow200NoNo
19337208SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING OPTIMIZED NETWORK RESOURCESSeptember 2025February 2026Allow400YesNo
19337171SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING OPTIMIZED NETWORK RESOURCESSeptember 2025February 2026Allow400YesNo
19337341SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY VERIFICATION IN A SHARED TRANSPORT NETWORKSeptember 2025January 2026Allow300YesNo
19337195SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR AUTOMATIC SIGNAL DETECTION BASED ON POWER DISTRIBUTION BY FREQUENCY OVER TIME WITHIN AN ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUMSeptember 2025February 2026Allow510NoNo
19337380DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING AN AUGMENTED PATIENT-SPECIFIC BONE/CARTILAGE MODEL OF A TARGET ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE OF A PATIENTSeptember 2025February 2026Allow500NoNo
19335564Method and System for Calibrating Antennas with Application to Solar Power SatellitesSeptember 2025December 2025Allow300NoNo
19333586METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BEAM MANAGEMENT IN MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMSeptember 2025November 2025Allow200YesNo
19334560CONFIGURATION OF FRAME FORMAT FOR EXTENDED RANGE TRANSMISSIONSeptember 2025March 2026Allow610NoNo
19332397WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD TO OPERATE NEAR-FULL DUPLEX WIRELESS MESH NETWORKSeptember 2025December 2025Allow200NoNo
19331210LOCATION-BASED DIGITAL TOKEN MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSSeptember 2025December 2025Allow300NoNo
19330886SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED SPECTRUM MONITORINGSeptember 2025October 2025Allow100NoNo
19330670SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED MACHINE LEARNING-BASED INBOUND CALL MONITORING AND RESPONSE GENERATIONSeptember 2025January 2026Allow410YesNo
19330096SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZED PREMISES ACCESS CONTROLSeptember 2025January 2026Allow410NoNo
19329174SYSTEMS/METHODS OF BANDWIDTH VARIABILITY IN CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONSSeptember 2025December 2025Allow300NoNo
19329210SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DATA EXTRACTION OF UNSTRUCTURED DOCUMENTSSeptember 2025November 2025Allow200NoNo
19329217METHOD FOR GENERATING TRAINING DATA TO BE USED FOR TRAINING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL AND TRAINING DATA GENERATING DEVICE USING THE SAMESeptember 2025November 2025Allow200NoNo
19328082Scalable Expert Foundry System Using Hierarchical Supervisory Networks and Geometric Manifold Architectures for Multi-Domain Cognitive ProcessingSeptember 2025January 2026Allow400YesNo
19326730Systems and Methods for Latent Hyperspace Navigation in Spatiotemporal MediaSeptember 2025March 2026Allow600NoNo
19327457SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-MODAL VISUAL REASONING USING MULTIPLE SCENE GRAPHSSeptember 2025December 2025Allow310NoNo
19324884SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING OPTIMIZED NETWORK RESOURCESSeptember 2025March 2026Allow600YesNo
19324410System and Method of deterring unsolicited telephone callsSeptember 2025December 2025Allow310YesNo
19323387Monitoring Apparatus and Method for Preventing Pressure InjuriesSeptember 2025February 2026Allow500YesNo
19322389Augmented Reality Environment for Providing Instructions for Repairing a PON DeviceSeptember 2025March 2026Allow610NoNo
19321580METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION, TRANSMITTER, AND RECEIVERSeptember 2025November 2025Allow200YesNo
19322238Indication of Unused Uplink ResourcesSeptember 2025October 2025Allow200NoNo
19321913SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING OPTIMIZED NETWORK RESOURCESSeptember 2025January 2026Allow400YesNo
19321173Persistent Cognitive Machine With Curated Long Term MemorySeptember 2025March 2026Allow600NoNo
19321058SYSTEM FOR REDUCING DUPLICATE SIGNALING IN A WIRELESS NETWORKSeptember 2025October 2025Allow200NoNo
19319833MULTIMODAL CONTEXTUAL DIAGNOSTICS AND LIVE MASKINGSeptember 2025October 2025Allow200YesNo
19319167SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTION OF BACKTESTING TIME AND REGIONSeptember 2025February 2026Allow610YesNo
19319577METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-LINK DEVICE-BASED ROAMING IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEMSeptember 2025November 2025Allow200YesNo
17844996THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRACKING AND MAPPING OF ATOMIC PLANES IN ATOM PROBE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGINGSeptember 2025August 2025Allow3710NoNo
19316946SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEMI-AUTOMATED DATASET ANNOTATION USING SIMILARITY BASED CLUSTERING AND IN-CONTEXT LEARNING FOR SEGMENTATIONSeptember 2025November 2025Allow200NoNo
19314696SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SENSOR DATA FUSIONAugust 2025February 2026Allow510NoNo
19314619MASS-BASED CLUSTERING OF UTTERANCES IN FINANCIAL CONTEXTSAugust 2025December 2025Allow300NoNo
19314244MULTI-SENSORY GAMING DESK WITH AUDIO-VISUAL SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEMAugust 2025February 2026Allow510NoNo
19313779Systems and Methods for Avatar Animation Based on Biometric DataAugust 2025January 2026Allow510YesNo
19313229VIEW-EXTENDED MULTISCOPIC RENDERINGAugust 2025November 2025Allow200NoNo
19312643On-Demand State Verification Using Digital Image Processing and Artificial IntelligenceAugust 2025October 2025Allow200NoNo
19312112METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MULTI-LINK DEVICE-BASED ROAMING IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEMAugust 2025February 2026Allow610NoNo
19311396ADAPTIVE VOICEMAIL AND IVR DETECTION FOR AI-DRIVEN CALL AUTOMATIONAugust 2025December 2025Allow400NoNo
19312216AI-GENERATED MUSIC DERIVATIVE WORKSAugust 2025February 2026Allow610NoNo
19311017Method and System for Optimizing Use of Retrieval Augmented Generation Pipelines in Generative Artificial Intelligence ApplicationsAugust 2025March 2026Allow600NoNo
19310518SCALABLE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTEXT-AWARE SENSITIVE DATA DETECTION, HIERARCHICAL LABELING, AND PROTECTION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING ENVIRONMENTSAugust 2025December 2025Allow410NoNo
19310179METHOD FOR ANALYZING AN IMAGE OF A DENTAL ARCHAugust 2025December 2025Allow400YesNo
19308940SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING OPTIMIZED NETWORK RESOURCESAugust 2025October 2025Allow200YesNo
19309463COLLABORATIVE DATA ANALYTICS USING MACHINE LEARNING BASED LANGUAGE MODELSAugust 2025November 2025Allow200NoNo
19308532CHATBOTS WITH NON-LINEAR CONVERSATIONSAugust 2025November 2025Allow310YesNo
19308214AI-Driven Dermatological Imaging and Predictive Simulation Platform for Pigment and Lesion ReductionAugust 2025November 2025Allow300YesNo
19307286Systems and Methods for Loss Weighted Image Sampling for Non-Uniform Splat GenerationAugust 2025October 2025Allow200NoNo
19308068SCALABLE SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING COLOR MANAGEMENT COMPRISING VARYING LEVELS OF METADATAAugust 2025December 2025Allow400NoNo
19307885MULTI-MODAL HIERARCHICAL TOKENIZATION DEEP NEURAL NETWORKAugust 2025October 2025Allow200NoNo
19307170SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CALIBRATING VEHICLE FOLLOWING DISTANCE DETERMINATIONAugust 2025March 2026Allow610NoNo
19306668SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE TO PROACTIVELY DETECT IN REAL TIME ONE OR MORE THREATS IN CROWDED AREASAugust 2025January 2026Allow400YesNo
19306727AI-GENERATED MUSIC DERIVATIVE WORKSAugust 2025February 2026Allow610YesNo
19306731MULTI-STAGE APPROVAL AND CONTROLLED DISTRIBUTION OF AI-GENERATED DERIVATIVE CONTENTAugust 2025March 2026Allow610YesNo
19306379Method and System for Optimizing Use of Retrieval Augmented Generation Pipelines in Generative Artificial Intelligence ApplicationsAugust 2025March 2026Allow600NoNo
19305085SUFFIX-BASED SPECULATIVE TOKEN DECODING FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELAugust 2025November 2025Allow200NoNo
19304284ENCOMPASSING ELLIPSE FOR DUAL LOCATION SOLUTIONSAugust 2025October 2025Allow200NoNo
19302898SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF SENSOR DATA FUSIONAugust 2025January 2026Allow410NoNo
19302979COMPOSITE FASTENERAugust 2025March 2026Allow710NoNo
19302810REAL-TIME USE OF MULTIPLE PARALLEL AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR) MODULES IN A CONVERSATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) ARCHITECTUREAugust 2025January 2026Allow510YesNo
19301437SYSTEM FOR COLOR-CODING MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION AND METHODS OF USEAugust 2025December 2025Allow410YesNo
19300696INERTIAL SCROLLING METHOD AND APPARATUSAugust 2025February 2026Allow610NoNo
19301836METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING SIGNAL IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMAugust 2025October 2025Allow200NoNo
19301023RADIO INTERFACE MEASUREMENTSAugust 2025February 2026Allow610NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for tech-center 2600.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
12788
Examiner Affirmed
9092
(71.1%)
Examiner Reversed
3696
(28.9%)
Reversal Percentile
10.0%
Lower than average

What This Means

With a 28.9% 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.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
43106
Allowed After Appeal Filing
13899
(32.2%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
29207
(67.8%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
45.5%
Lower 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, 32.2% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is below the USPTO average, suggesting that filing an appeal has limited effectiveness in prompting favorable reconsideration.

Strategic Recommendations

Appeals to PTAB face challenges. Ensure your case has strong merit before committing to full Board review.

Filing a Notice of Appeal shows limited benefit. Consider other strategies like interviews or amendments before appealing.

Technology Center 2600 - Communications

Executive Summary

Technology Center 2600 covers Communications. This technology center has examined 813,814 patent applications in our dataset, with an overall allowance rate of 78.7%. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 30 months.

Prosecution Patterns

Applications in Technology Center 2600 receive an average of 1.79 office actions before reaching final disposition. The median prosecution time is 30 months.

Technology-Specific Considerations

This technology center encompasses a broad range of technical subject matter. Prosecution strategies should be tailored based on the specific art unit and examiner assigned to your application. Review the group, art unit, and examiner-level statistics for more targeted strategic insights.

Important Disclaimer

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