USPTO Examiner KY KEVIN - Art Unit 2671

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19080452NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION USING KNOWLEDGE GRAPH INCORPORATING TEXTUAL SUMMARIESMarch 2025November 2025Allow820YesNo
19031222CONTROL PARAMETER FEEDBACK PROTOCOL FOR ADAPTING TO DATA STREAM RESPONSE FEEDBACKJanuary 2025June 2025Allow501YesNo
18961440CONTEXT-AWARE SEMANTIC CHUNKING FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IN LARGE LANGUAGE MODELSNovember 2024February 2025Allow200YesNo
18862538HIGH RESOLUTION TRACEABILITYNovember 2024August 2025Allow1010YesNo
18814687IMAGE ANALYSIS FOR PERSONAL INTERACTIONAugust 2024December 2025Allow1620NoNo
18748464RECOGNIZING ACCENTED SPEECHJune 2024March 2025Allow810NoNo
18743436User-described Video StreamsJune 2024March 2025Allow900YesNo
18670978METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE ON BASIS OF INTRA PREDICTION MODE AND APPARATUS THEREFORMay 2024January 2025Allow800YesNo
18650707DETERMINING CHROMOPHORE CONCENTRATIONS IN TISSUESApril 2024May 2025Allow1210YesNo
18649774ACTION SELECTION BASED ON ENVIRONMENT OBSERVATIONS AND TEXTUAL INSTRUCTIONSApril 2024December 2024Allow700YesNo
18606668Visual Structure of Documents in Question AnsweringMarch 2024August 2024Allow501YesNo
18406478DEVICE AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR OPERATING A KNOWLEDGE BASE COMPRISING A LANGUAGE MODELJanuary 2024January 2026Allow2410NoNo
18400992GENERATING CODED DATA REPRESENTATIONS USING NEURAL NETWORKS AND VECTOR QUANTIZERSDecember 2023September 2024Allow800YesNo
18399184GENERATING SKILL DATA THROUGH MACHINE LEARNINGDecember 2023January 2025Allow1310YesNo
18398238SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CLINICALLY RELEVANT IMAGES THAT PRESERVE PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES OF HUMANS WHILE PROTECTING PERSONAL IDENTITYDecember 2023July 2024Allow711YesNo
18391308GENERATIVE INTERACTIVE VIDEO METHOD AND SYSTEMDecember 2023February 2025Allow1410YesNo
18570168METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SPEECH OUTPUTS IN A VEHICLEDecember 2023February 2026Allow2610NoNo
18540493MATRIX BASED BOT IMPLEMENTATIONDecember 2023July 2024Allow700YesNo
18538005GANTRY ALIGNMENT OF A MEDICAL SCANNERDecember 2023March 2025Allow1510YesNo
18568261SPEECH SYNTHESIS METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMDecember 2023March 2026Allow2710NoNo
18525715MULTI-OUTPUT DECODER FOR TEXTURE DECOMPRESSIONNovember 2023July 2025Allow2010NoNo
18561524Neural Network System for 3D Pose EstimationNovember 2023October 2025Allow2300NoNo
18507858BASE CALLING USING CONVOLUTIONNovember 2023October 2024Allow1110NoNo
18388239PROCESSING TRANSACTIONAL FEEDBACKNovember 2023June 2025Abandon1920YesNo
18501282Semantically Classifying Sets Of Data ElementsNovember 2023October 2025Allow2310YesNo
18481818Image Forming Apparatus Including Antenna in CoverOctober 2023March 2025Allow1720YesNo
18469688UNSUPERVISED VIDEO SEGMENT CLUSTERING AND BOUNDARY POSITIONINGSeptember 2023January 2026Allow2710YesNo
18369061SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AI DRIVEN GENERATION OF CONTENT ATTUNED TO A USERSeptember 2023April 2024Allow700YesNo
18461999SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RULE-BASED LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONSeptember 2023October 2025Allow2510NoNo
18242075MACHINE-LEARNING TOOL FOR GENERATING SEGMENTATION AND TOPIC METADATA FOR DOCUMENTSSeptember 2023July 2024Allow1010YesNo
18453236Document Entity Extraction Using Machine-Learned ModelsAugust 2023September 2025Allow2510YesNo
18363313AUTOMATED CONTENT TAGGING WITH LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATION OF CONTEXTUAL WORD EMBEDDINGSAugust 2023May 2025Allow2130YesNo
18222090KNOWLEDGE-DRIVEN SCENE PRIORS FOR SEMANTIC AUDIO-VISUAL EMBODIED NAVIGATIONJuly 2023December 2025Allow2910YesNo
18346101DYNAMIC GENERATION OF INSTRUCTIONS FOR MACHINE LEARNING TRANSCREATION TASKSJune 2023May 2025Allow2300YesNo
18339075SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTIMODAL FUSION OF MISSING AND UNPAIRED IMAGE AND TABULAR DATA FOR DEFECT CLASSIFICATIONJune 2023October 2025Allow2810YesNo
18211666SELECTIVE KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATIONJune 2023March 2026Allow3310NoNo
18202397APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND TRANSMITTING SIMULATED COMMUNICATIONMay 2023June 2025Allow2500YesNo
18316128ENHANCED POSE GENERATION BASED ON GENERATIVE MODELINGMay 2023January 2024Allow810NoNo
18315426EMBEDDING INFERENCEMay 2023December 2023Allow700NoNo
18035540LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD AND PROGRAMMay 2023December 2025Abandon3101NoNo
18136830COUNTER DATA GENERATION FOR DATA PROFILING USING ONLY TRUE SAMPLESApril 2023June 2024Allow1410YesNo
18302475METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING CANDIDATE VOCABULARYApril 2023August 2025Allow2800YesNo
18135283SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CLINICALLY RELEVANT IMAGES THAT PRESERVE PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES OF HUMANS WHILE PROTECTING PERSONAL IDENTITYApril 2023November 2023Allow701YesNo
18301060RECOGNIZING ACCENTED SPEECHApril 2023March 2024Allow1110YesNo
18299700ENSEMBLE OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR REAL-TIME PREDICTIONS IN EXPERT ELECTRONIC CHATSApril 2023August 2023Allow400YesNo
18029882Gating of Contextual Attention and Convolutional FeaturesMarch 2023October 2025Allow3000NoNo
18129494OBJECT IDENTIFICATION IN DIGITAL IMAGESMarch 2023March 2024Allow1120YesNo
18127135METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR IMAGE PROCESSINGMarch 2023August 2025Allow2910NoNo
18121278SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED REAL-TIME GENERATION OF AN INTERACTIVE AVATAR UTILIZING SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM COMPUTER MEMORY STRUCTURESMarch 2023June 2023Allow300NoNo
18041207METHOD OF TRAINING TEXT RECOGNITION MODEL, AND METHOD OF RECOGNIZING TEXTFebruary 2023December 2025Abandon3410NoNo
18106094COMPRESSING AUDIO WAVEFORMS USING NEURAL NETWORKS AND VECTOR QUANTIZERSFebruary 2023March 2024Allow1310YesNo
18159616SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A READING AND COMPREHENSION ASSISTANCE TOOLJanuary 2023September 2025Allow3210YesNo
18101506Multi-Output Decoder for Texture DecompressionJanuary 2023July 2023Allow600NoNo
18099619INCENTIVIZED NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING AND ASSURANCE PROCESSESJanuary 2023October 2023Allow800NoNo
18095639VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT-BASED INTERFACES APPLIED TO SELECTED OBJECTS FROM VIDEOJanuary 2023March 2024Allow1410NoNo
18152627HUMAN OBJECT INTERACTION DETECTION USING COMPOSITIONAL MODELJanuary 2023November 2025Allow3410NoNo
18147995IMAGE-BASED KITCHEN TRACKING SYSTEM WITH ORDER ACCURACY MANAGEMENTDecember 2022May 2024Abandon1620YesNo
18089429METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE ON BASIS OF INTRA PREDICTION MODE AND APPARATUS THEREFORDecember 2022February 2024Allow1410YesNo
18065589EVALUATING TRANSCRIPTS THROUGH REPETITIVE STATEMENT ANALYSISDecember 2022March 2025Allow2740NoNo
18078747METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING PREDICTION INFORMATION, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND MEDIUMDecember 2022July 2023Allow810NoNo
18076501IMAGE OCCLUSION METHOD, MODEL TRAINING METHOD, DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMDecember 2022February 2026Abandon3810NoNo
17926996SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION OF TEXT IN DOCUMENTNovember 2022April 2025Allow2810YesNo
17925530IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUMNovember 2022November 2025Allow3610YesNo
18053641GUIDED COMODGAN OPTIMIZATIONNovember 2022July 2025Allow3301YesNo
18050564CONVOLUTION AND TRANSFORMER BASED COMPRESSIVE SENSINGOctober 2022August 2025Allow3310YesNo
17974568Visual Dialogue Method and SystemOctober 2022October 2024Allow2410YesNo
17969613BASE CALLING USING THREE-DIMENTIONAL (3D) CONVOLUTIONOctober 2022June 2023Allow810YesNo
17995283METHOD OF TRAINING TEXT QUALITY ASSESSMENT MODEL AND METHOD OF DETERMINING TEXT QUALITYSeptember 2022January 2025Allow2810YesNo
17955735Partial Fourier Method with Neural NetworksSeptember 2022February 2026Abandon4110NoNo
17950974COLLABORATION CONTENT GENERATION AND SELECTION FOR PRESENTATIONSeptember 2022March 2025Abandon3010NoNo
17931570VIRTUAL REALITY BASED PUSH NOTIFICATIONSSeptember 2022July 2025Allow3410YesNo
17911066PREDICTION DEVICE, PREDICTION SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAMSeptember 2022July 2025Allow3410YesNo
17910162SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CORRELATING REGIONS OF INTEREST IN MULTIPLE IMAGING MODALITIESSeptember 2022August 2025Allow3611YesNo
17939686METHOD OF OPERATING A MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM, METHOD OF SIMULATING A PARTIAL DEFORMATION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF AN ORGAN, MEDICAL IMAGING SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE PROGRAM PRODUCTSeptember 2022August 2025Allow3500NoNo
17901494LEVERAGING SMART-PHONE CAMERAS AND IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES TO CLASSIFY MOSQUITO GENUS AND SPECIESSeptember 2022April 2024Allow1910YesNo
17894870Method and System for Instilling Shape-Awareness to Self-Supervised Learning DomainAugust 2022February 2026Abandon4210NoNo
17798330AN IMAGE ANALYSIS DEVICE, A CONTROL METHOD FOR AN IMAGE ANALYSIS DEVICE, AN IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEM, AND A CONTROL METHOD FOR AN IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEMAugust 2022March 2025Allow3110YesNo
17797079APPARATUS FOR INSPECTING APPEARANCE OF CAPSULEAugust 2022May 2025Allow3420NoNo
17878033MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM, MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAMJuly 2022March 2025Allow3220YesNo
17815867FUSION OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CONTEXT FOR LOCATION DETERMINATION FOR VISUALIZATION SYSTEMSJuly 2022October 2025Allow3810NoNo
17857921CONTEXTUAL-BASED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING AND REVEALING SELECTED OBJECTS FROM VIDEOJuly 2022September 2023Allow1510NoNo
17851007SYSTEM THAT FITS A PARAMETERIZED THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE TO MULTIPLE TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGESJune 2022October 2024Allow2700NoNo
17847232TRAINING APPARATUS, TRAINING METHOD, AND MEDIUMJune 2022April 2025Allow3410YesNo
17664952REGION PROPOSAL NETWORKS FOR AUTOMATED BOUNDING BOX DETECTION AND TEXT SEGMENTATIONMay 2022July 2023Allow1410NoNo
17744921ACTION SELECTION BASED ON ENVIRONMENT OBSERVATIONS AND TEXTUAL INSTRUCTIONSMay 2022February 2024Allow2110YesNo
17727257Semi-Transparent Embedded WatermarksApril 2022January 2024Allow2110YesNo
17703527ADAPTIVE NEURAL IMAGE COMPRESSION WITH SMOOTH QUALITY CONTROL BY META-LEARNINGMarch 2022March 2025Allow3610YesNo
17698556SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVING ROBUSTNESS OF PRETRAINED SYSTEMS IN DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS UTILIZING RANDOMIZATION AND SAMPLE REJECTIONMarch 2022October 2024Allow3010NoNo
17685847MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, TERMINAL AND STORAGE MEDIUMMarch 2022February 2025Allow3610YesNo
17653015Method and System for Zero-Shot Cross Domain Video Anomaly DetectionMarch 2022February 2025Allow3510YesNo
17681260METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VISUALIZING INFORMATION ON GIGAPIXELS WHOLE SLIDE IMAGEFebruary 2022March 2026Abandon4951NoNo
17678744REDUCING BACKSCATTERED ELECTRON INDUCED ERRORSFebruary 2022November 2024Allow3310NoNo
17676432POSE ESTIMATIONFebruary 2022December 2025Allow4640YesYes
17676680ENDOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMFebruary 2022February 2025Allow3520YesNo
17674818MEDICAL SUPPORT DEVICE, OPERATION METHOD OF MEDICAL SUPPORT DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND MEDICAL SUPPORT SYSTEMFebruary 2022July 2024Allow2910YesNo
17674463Method For Determining A Tooth ColourFebruary 2022September 2024Allow3110YesNo
17667231Radar-Based Object Tracking Using a Neural NetworkFebruary 2022November 2025Allow4611YesNo
17592447MULTILINEAR DOMAIN-SPECIFIC DOMAIN GENERALIZATIONFebruary 2022November 2025Allow4510YesNo
17580643OPHTHALMOLOGICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL APPARATUS, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUMJanuary 2022December 2024Allow3410YesNo
17626344SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODEL-BASED STENT DESIGN AND PLACEMENTJanuary 2022July 2025Allow4211YesNo

Appeals Overview

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Examiner KY, KEVIN - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner KY, KEVIN works in Art Unit 2671 and has examined 101 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 64.4%, this examiner allows applications at a lower rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 34 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner KY, KEVIN's allowance rate of 64.4% places them in the 25% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is less likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by KY, KEVIN receive 1.92 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 47% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues fewer office actions than average, which may indicate efficient prosecution or a more lenient examination style.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by KY, KEVIN is 34 months. This places the examiner in the 44% percentile for prosecution speed. Prosecution timelines are slightly slower than average with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +27.6% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by KY, KEVIN. This interview benefit is in the 75% percentile among all examiners. Recommendation: Interviews provide an above-average benefit with this examiner and are worth considering.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 27.2% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 46% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show below-average effectiveness with this examiner. Carefully evaluate whether an RCE or continuation is the better strategy.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 22.9% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 30% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows below-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. You may need to file an RCE or appeal rather than relying on after-final amendment entry.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 66.7% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 73% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions show above-average success regarding this examiner's actions. Petitionable matters include restriction requirements (MPEP § 1002.02(c)(2)) and various procedural issues.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 22% percentile). This examiner rarely makes examiner's amendments compared to other examiners. You should expect to make all necessary claim amendments yourself through formal amendment practice.

Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 28% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions less often than average. Allowances may come directly without a separate action for formal matters.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:

  • Prepare for rigorous examination: With a below-average allowance rate, ensure your application has strong written description and enablement support. Consider filing a continuation if you need to add new matter.

Relevant MPEP Sections for Prosecution Strategy

  • MPEP § 713.10: Examiner interviews - available before Notice of Allowance or transfer to PTAB
  • MPEP § 714.12: After-final amendments - may be entered "under justifiable circumstances"
  • MPEP § 1002.02(c): Petitionable matters to Technology Center Director
  • MPEP § 1004: Actions requiring primary examiner signature (allowances, final rejections, examiner's answers)
  • MPEP § 1207.01: Appeal conferences - mandatory for all appeals
  • MPEP § 1214.07: Reopening prosecution after appeal

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