Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 27, 2026

Kyle R Stork, USPTO Patent Examiner

Listed by the USPTO as STORK, KYLE R

Tech Center 2600 • Art Units: 2128 2143 2144 2147 2178 2179 2672

This examiner grants 63% of resolved cases

Analysis

STORK, KYLE R works in Tech Center 2600 and Art Unit 2128. The profile records 884 resolved cases, with an allowance rate of 63.2%. The interview lift is 28.7%, and the median time to allowance is 1452 days. The data show a majority allowance result and a positive interview association, but also the longest reported median timeline in this profile.

The leading companies are Robert Bosch GmbH, Intel Corporation, and NVIDIA Corporation. The listed firms are Keller Preece PLLC, NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT US LLP, and AMPACC Law Group, PLLC. Prosecution teams can use interviews constructively while planning for extended pendency and the resources required by a long allowance path.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Performance Statistics

63.2%
Allow Rate
+1.2% vs TC avg
947
Total Applications
+28.7%
Interview Lift
1452
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 884 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

15.6%
§101 Eligibility
10.5%
§102 Novelty
61.3%
§103 Obviousness
5.8%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18837025 POWER FEATURE AIDED MACHINE LEARNING TO REDUCE NON-LINEAR DISTORTION Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
17317421 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREMENTAL LEARNING Non-Final OA Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
19376612 DOMAIN-SPECIFIC NATURAL LANGUAGE DATA GENERATION BASED ON ITERATIVE VALIDATION OF DOMAIN-SPECIFIC ONTOLOGICAL DATA Final Rejection Citibank, N.A.
18184379 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING AN OPTIMAL ARCHITECTURE OF A NEURAL NETWORK Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
17837206 DEVICE, A COMPUTER PROGRAM AND A COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR TRAINING A KNOWLEDGE GRAPH EMBEDDING MODEL Final Rejection Robert Bosch GmbH
18254634 Improved Two-Stage Machine Learning for Imbalanced Datasets Final Rejection Google LLC
18701633 NEURAL NETWORK DEVICE, DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18014099 LEARNING DEVICE, FEATURE CALCULATION PROGRAM GENERATION METHOD AND SIMILARITY CALCULATOR Final Rejection NEC Corporation
18678724 ANOMALY DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM Non-Final OA UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University
18467804 DIRECT DEPTH PREDICTION Final Rejection QUALCOMM Incorporated
18279820 METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MODIFY PRE-TRAINED MODELS TO APPLY NEURAL ARCHITECTURE SEARCH Final Rejection Intel Corporation
18216217 STYLUS TRAJECTORY PREDICTION Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17895901 APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING CONGESTION TIME POINT AND METHOD THEREOF Final Rejection Kia Corporation
18330122 SYNTHESIZING REALISTIC TIME SERIES WITH OUTLIERS Final Rejection Visa International Service Association
18241974 Method And Apparatus For Generalization Of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Model Final Rejection MediaTek Inc.
18677358 ADJUSTING NEURAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURES Non-Final OA NVIDIA Corporation
17827390 TRAINING PERCEPTION MODELS USING SYNTHETIC DATA FOR AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS Final Rejection NVIDIA Corporation
17881753 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELETING TRAINED DATA OF DEEP LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
18490281 CONTINUAL LEARNING FOR MULTI MODAL SYSTEMS USING CROWD SOURCING Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
18632969 DIGITAL ASSISTANT SERVICE USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Non-Final OA SAP SE
17580001 LINKAGE DATA GENERATOR Non-Final OA PayPal, Inc.
17364614 DETECTING ANOMALOUS DIGITAL ACTIONS UTILIZING AN ANOMALOUS-DETECTION MODEL Non-Final OA Dropbox, Inc.
17663464 HIERARCHICAL MULTI-MODEL GENERATION IN NETWORK AND CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEMS Final Rejection Juniper Networks, Inc.
18678530 MANAGING INFERENCE MODELS USING CONCEPT-BASED REPRESENTATIONS OF INFERENCES Non-Final OA Dell Products L.P.
18501784 EXPLAINABLE FEDERATED LEARNING ROBUST TO MALICIOUS CLIENTS AND TO NON-INDEPENDENT AND IDENTICALLY DISTRIBUTED DATA Final Rejection Dell Products L.P.
17215558 Systems and Methods for Classification and Time Series Calibration in Identity Health Analysis Final Rejection Allstate Insurance Company
18183387 BUILDING TIME-DECAYED LINE GRAPHS FOR DIRECT EMBEDDING OF CONTINUOUS-TIMED INTERACTIONS IN GENERATING TIME-AWARE RECOMMENDATIONS Non-Final OA Adobe Inc.
18235529 Microscopy System and Method for Testing a Quality of a Machine-Learned Image Processing Model Final Rejection Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is examiner Kyle R Stork's allowance rate?

63.2% of resolved applications examined by Kyle R Stork were allowed (884 resolved cases), compared with 38.7% across Art Unit 2128 over the last five years.

Does an interview help with examiner Kyle R Stork?

This examiner's interview lift is +28.7 percentage points: the difference in allowance rate between resolved applications that had an examiner interview and those that did not.

How long does examiner Kyle R Stork take to allow a patent?

Applications allowed by Kyle R Stork took 1,452 days on average from filing to allowance.

Which art unit does examiner Kyle R Stork work in?

Kyle R Stork examines applications in Art Unit 2128 in Tech Center 2600 (Communications).

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