Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 02, 2026

Examiner: STORK, KYLE R

Tech Center 2800 • Art Units: 2128 2143 2144 2147 2178 2179 2672 2812

This examiner grants 63% of resolved cases

Analysis

Kyle R. Stork is an examiner in Tech Center 2800 and Art Unit 2128. He has 884 resolved cases. The allowance rate is 63.2 percent. The median days to allowance is 1452. This 1452 days figure provides a timeline for applicants to consider during prosecution. The 884 resolved cases offer a basis for these statistics. This data is specific to his work in Art Unit 2128.

The interview lift for this examiner is 28.7 percent. This lift indicates that the allowance rate changes when an interview is conducted. Practitioners can use this information to decide whether to request an interview. The 63.2 percent allowance rate is the baseline for applications assigned to him. Direct communication is a strategy that relates to the 28.7 percent lift. These figures from Tech Center 2800 help in planning prosecution steps. The 1452 days median is a factor in managing expectations for patent pendency.

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

Performance Statistics

63.2%
Allow Rate
-4.8% vs TC avg
931
Total Applications
+28.7%
Interview Lift
1452
Avg Prosecution Days
Based on 884 resolved cases, 2023–2026

Rejection Statute Breakdown

15.5%
§101 Eligibility
10.5%
§102 Novelty
61.3%
§103 Obviousness
5.7%
§112 Clarity

Currently Pending Office Actions

App #TitleStatusAssignee
18605227 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING DEEP LEARNING RECOMMENDATION MODEL Non-Final OA SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.,LTD.
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.
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
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
18593564 Implementing Quantum Logic Gates using Pulse Analysis for Quantum Computing System Non-Final OA Google LLC
18254634 Improved Two-Stage Machine Learning for Imbalanced Datasets Final Rejection Google LLC
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
17820900 DEEP NEURAL NETWORK (DNN) ACCELERATORS WITH HETEROGENEOUS TILING Non-Final OA Intel Corporation
17580001 LINKAGE DATA GENERATOR Non-Final OA PayPal, Inc.
18701633 NEURAL NETWORK DEVICE, DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM Non-Final OA SONY GROUP CORPORATION
18837025 POWER FEATURE AIDED MACHINE LEARNING TO REDUCE NON-LINEAR DISTORTION Non-Final OA Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
18372661 EFFICIENT TRANSFORMER TRAINING BASED ON SMALLER PRETRAINED MODELS Final Rejection Massachusetts Institute of Technology
18567736 METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DEFINING IMPORTANCE MASK AND IMPORTANCE ORDERING LIST Non-Final OA Nokia Technologies Oy
17566898 ENHANCED LEXICON-BASED CLASSIFIER MODELS WITH TUNABLE ERROR-RATE TRADEOFFS Final Rejection MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
18632969 DIGITAL ASSISTANT SERVICE USING GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Non-Final OA SAP SE
18300721 STRUCTURED DOCUMENT GENERATION FROM TEXT PROMPTS Non-Final OA ADOBE INC.
18183387 BUILDING TIME-DECAYED LINE GRAPHS FOR DIRECT EMBEDDING OF CONTINUOUS-TIMED INTERACTIONS IN GENERATING TIME-AWARE RECOMMENDATIONS Non-Final OA Adobe 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
18490281 CONTINUAL LEARNING FOR MULTI MODAL SYSTEMS USING CROWD SOURCING Final Rejection Cisco Technology, Inc.
18523123 SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO TOKENIZE AND CATEGORIZE DATA TRANSACTIONS Non-Final OA Bank of America Corporation
17881753 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELETING TRAINED DATA OF DEEP LEARNING MODEL Non-Final OA RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
17663464 HIERARCHICAL MULTI-MODEL GENERATION IN NETWORK AND CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEMS Final Rejection Juniper Networks, Inc.
17331501 ACTIVE LEARNING ANNOTATION SYSTEM THAT DOES NOT REQUIRE HISTORICAL DATA Final Rejection Feedzai - Consultadoria e Inovação Tecnológica, S.A.
17132847 METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PREDICTING A SPLIT LANE TRAFFIC PATTERN Non-Final OA HERE GLOBAL B.V.

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