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Last updated: October 26, 2026

Ken Kudo, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as KUDO, KEN

Tech Center 3700 • Art Units: 2671 2831 3792

This examiner grants 0% of resolved cases

Performance Statistics

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Allow Rate
-70.0% vs TC avg
50
Total Applications
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Interview Lift
0
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 0 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

16.5%
§101 Eligibility
11.2%
§102 Novelty
42.9%
§103 Obviousness
27.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18933223 STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM AND DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS Non-Final OA BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18656035 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING CONTINUOUS SIGNATURE MANAGEMENT Non-Final OA Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
18415113 IMAGE ANALYSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS, IMAGE ANALYSIS SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND IMAGE ANALYSIS SUPPORT METHOD Non-Final OA Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
18415343 CELL IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM, PRODUCTION METHOD FOR INFERENCE MODEL, AND CELL IMAGE ANALYSIS DEVICE Final Rejection CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
18853810 ANIMAL HUSBANDRY SYSTEM Non-Final OA LELY PATENT N.V.
18950291 INFERENCE APPARATUS AND INFERENCE METHOD Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18708713 INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18708684 ACTION CLASSIFICATION APPARATUS, ACTION CLASSIFICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA NEC Corporation
18932956 GENERATIVE MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR GENERATING ROOF DAMAGE IMAGES Non-Final OA State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
18819980 METHOD, APPARATUS, DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM OF TARGET SEGMENTATION Non-Final OA Lemon Inc.
18734168 Apparatus And Method For Object Tracking And Apparatus And Method For Controlling A Vehicle Using The Same Non-Final OA Kia Corporation
18816581 Coronary Artery Lumen Contour Adjustment Based on Segmentation Uncertainty Non-Final OA Siemens Healthineers AG
18908552 FEATURE SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD, COMPUTER DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Non-Final OA TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
19015191 VISUAL LOCALIZATION OF IMAGE VIEWPOINTS IN 3D SCENES USING NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS Non-Final OA Nvidia Corporation
18232757 MACHINE LEARNING FOR MASK OPTIMIZATION IN INVERSE LITHOGRAPHY TECHNOLOGIES Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
18576210 RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ACQUIRING DEVICE, RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ACQUIRING SYSTEM, AND RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ACQUISITION METHOD Final Rejection HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
18632838 TEMPORAL MULTI-FRAME OCCUPANCY ESTIMATION Final Rejection GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC

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Ken Kudo examines applications in Art Unit 2671 in Tech Center 3700 (Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering).

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