Examiner Keyur A. Vyas

Grant ratio: 21.8% (29th percentile in Art Unit 1637 among examiners with at least 20 applications). Average office actions per grant: 2.23. Most common rejection type: §103.

Recently active Last office action in data: August 2026
Grant ratio 21.8%
Average office actions / grant 2.23
Compared with Art unit Very hard
Compared with Work group Very hard
Compared with Technology center Very hard
Compared with USPTO Very hard

Examiner record

Examiner ID
97139
Primary art unit
1637
Work group
1630
Technology center
1600
Applications
119
Granted applications
26
Examiner phone
(571) 272-0924
Supervisor
Jennifer Dunston
Supervisor phone
(571) 272-2916

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Peer comparisons

GroupExaminersAverage grant ratioAverage office actions / grant
Art Unit 33 41.0% 2.09
Group 245 37.4% 2.18
Tech Center 1,373 38.0% 2.02
USPTO 16,475 52.7% 1.98

Office actions per application

Average office actions per application 2.77 330 office actions across 119 applications
Applications with office actions 99.2% 118 applications
Office actionsApplicationsShare of applications
No OA observed 1 0.8%
1 OA 28 23.5%
2 OAs 30 25.2%
3 OAs 22 18.5%
4 OAs 20 16.8%
5+ OAs 18 15.1%

Each application is counted once. “5+” includes all higher counts.

Grant history

0.0% 25.0% 50.0% 75.0% 100.0% 2022: 50.0% 2022 2023: 47.6% 2023 2024: 26.3% 2024 2025: 29.0% 2025 2026: 0.0% 2026

Recent ratios may be lower while applications remain pending.

Yearly counts
YearApplicationsGrantsGrant rate
20224250.0%
2023211047.6%
202419526.3%
202531929.0%
20264400.0%

Rejections by office-action stage

Office-action stageActions observed§101§102§103§112
Action 1 118 0.0% 17.8% 49.2% 5.9%
Action 2 90 2.2% 12.2% 50.0% 7.8%
Action 3 60 0.0% 3.3% 56.7% 13.3%
Action 4 38 0.0% 2.6% 60.5% 13.2%
Action 5 18 5.6% 0.0% 66.7% 5.6%
Action 6 6 0.0% 0.0% 83.3% 0.0%

Section 101 rejections

Last 3 years 1.1% 3 of 270 office actions
All years 0.9% 3 of 330 office actions
Change +0.2 pts Percentage points

Last 3 years: 2023-08-28–2026-08-28. All years includes every dated office action in the data.

By year

0.0%
0.0%
2024: AI examples
2.1%
2025: August memo
0.0%
1.9%

Each bar is the percentage of office actions with a §101 rejection.

PTAB appeals

No PTAB decisions could be matched to this examiner.

Older and transferred applications may not have a reliable examiner match. Data through Aug. 27, 2026.

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