Examiner Blair Kile O

2691-BLAIR-KILE-O

Employment Information

Art Unit:2691 — Computer graphics processing and selective visual display systems
Group:2690 — Videophones and Telephonic Communications; Audio Signals; Digital Audio Data Processing
Classes: 381 — Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices
704 — Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression
181 — Acoustics
726 — Information security
455 — Telecommunications
706 — Data processing: artificial intelligence
379 — Telephonic communications
Phone:(571) 270-3544
Email:kile.blair@uspto.gov
Location:VA 22314
Title:Pat Examnr Elctrl Engrg
Service:19 years
Grade:GS-14

Grant Rate and Difficulty Ranking

35
3-Year Grant rate: 84% over 320 cases
Difficulty: Easier
Difficulty Percentile: 35th

With Examiner Blair, you have a 84% chance of getting an issued patent by 3 years after the first office action. Examiner Blair is an easier examiner and in the 35th percentile across all examiners (with 100th percentile most difficult).

Grant Rate

Grant Rate Timeline

Below is the grant rate timeline for Examiner Blair, where the timeline is relative to the date of the first office action. The three-year grant rate is the percentage of applications granted at three years after the first office action.

Comparison with Art Unit 2691

Examiner Blair's grant rate is lower than that of Art Unit 2691 and higher than that of the USPTO.

Average Office Actions Per Grant
Examiner Blair 0.9
Art Unit 2691 1.2

Interview Benefit

Grant Rate without Interview

Examiner Blair has granted 220 of 259 cases without any applicant-requested interviews for a grant rate of 85%.

Grant Rate with Interview

Examiner Blair has granted 49 of 61 cases with at least one applicant-requested interview for a grant rate of 80%.

Interview Benefit

With Examiner Blair, conducting an interview decreases your chance of getting a patent granted by 6%.

Recent Dispositions

Recent Dispositions

Number Title OA Rejections Status IFW
18744688 Speaker Box Rejection information available with a Premium Stats subscription. See our pricing. Patented View
18168073 Hearing Device Arrangement And Method For Audio Signal Processing Patented View
18668392 Sound Processing Apparatus And Sound Processing System Patented View
17980940 Electronic Device Including Speaker Module Patented View
18537726 Open Earphones Patented View
18417540 Multi-Channel Acoustic Howling Suppression Using Kalman Filter With Shared Parameter Estimation Patented View
18617606 Headphones Patented View
18273302 Cardiac And Vascular Noise Cancellation For Pulsatile Tinnitus Patented View
18382707 Audio Control System, Audio Control Method, And Recording Medium Patented View
17219896 Systems And Methods For Suppressing Sound Leakage Patented View
18006260 Fan Noise Reduction Method For Notebook Computer, And Notebook Computer Abandoned View
18628844 Microphone Patented View
17907317 Loudspeaker Module Patented View
18203586 Noise Cancelation For Loud Ambient Transient Sounds Patented View
18608973 Hearing Aid With Cognitive Adaptation And Methods Thereof Patented View
18277942 Sound System Patented View
18331590 Active Leakage Adaption For Wearable Audio Devices Patented View
18326413 Electroacoustic Transducer And Mounting Structure Of Same Patented View
18555181 Mobile Device Assisted Active Noise Control Abandoned View
18085175 Apparatus, System, And Method For Providing A Fast-Acting Engine Order Cancellation Patented View
17989212 Apparatus Patented View
18341517 Audio Accessory Systems And Methods Patented View
18431524 Device For Remote Online Detection Of Environmental Noise Monitoring System Patented View
18203136 Configuration System And Method For Aircraft Equipment Patented View
18386359 Acoustic Interference Suppression Through Speaker-Aware Processing Patented View
18570038 Controlling Reproduction Of Sound And Vibration Patented View
18091966 Method And Apparatus For Processing Acoustic Spatial Information Patented View
18034492 Signal Processing Device, Microphone Device, Signal Processing Method, And Recording Medium Patented View
18406788 Phasing Plug Adaptor Patented View
18367105 Spatial Aliasing Reduction For Multi-Speaker Channels Patented View
18148032 Wearable Device Patented View
18238855 System And Method For Adjusting Active Noise Cancellation Tuning Parameters Patented View
18030938 System And Method For Dynamic Beam-Steering Control For Constant Beamwidth Transducer Arrays Patented View
18476172 Surround Sound To Immersive Audio Upmixing Based On Video Scene Analysis Patented View
17999880 Application Device Patented View
18380802 Ring-Shaped Earphone Patented View
18249169 Event Detections For Noise Cancelling Headphones Patented View
18758461 Playing Binaural Sound Clips During An Electronic Communication Patented View
18107564 Vehicle And Method Of Controlling The Same Patented View
18352199 Tunable Resonance Generator Patented View
18204364 In-Celing 3-Way Minimal Opening Bandpass Speaker Patented View
18520573 Headphone And Operation Method Thereof Patented View
18259528 Sound Collecting Method, Electronic Device, And System Patented View
18127518 Adaptive Binaural Filtering For Listening System Using Remote Signal Sources And On-Ear Microphones Patented View
18387725 Apparatus For Outputting Sound Patented View
17994860 Pressure Adjusting Valve And Speaker Abandoned View
18255097 Method For Reproducing An Audio Signal Patented View
18076674 Phone Booth And Method Of Controlling Output Of Directional Speaker Patented View
18617491 Microphone With Advanced Functionalities Patented View
18186823 Generating Torso Shapes Suitable For Synthesis Of Head-Related Transfer Functions Patented View

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