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Devices, Systems, and Methods for Remote Authorization of Vehicle Platooning

US 11,100,211 In force
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Term ends Aug 24, 2037 · High confidence

Filed Feb 25, 2018 as application 15/904,418 · Granted Aug 24, 2021
Base term plus 363 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2016 2037
Clock starts
Aug 26, 2016
Term ends
Aug 24, 2037
Granted
Aug 24, 2021
base term patent term adjustment fee events Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
363
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
74
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

This patent's term runs 363 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: High. from the record

How we calculated this date

One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 26, 2016, when application PCT/US2016/049143, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 25, 2018)Aug 26, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+363 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 24, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 24, 2037High confidence

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Application PCT/US2006/000167PCT application
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US 8,236,542Lapsed on the fee record
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Nov 2032
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US 8,999,692Lapsed on the fee record
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Application PCT/US2012/045830PCT application
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Application PCT/US2014/030770PCT application
no patent term
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US 9,665,102In force (reinstated)
Jul 2032
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Assignments

Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Mar 30, 2018
Reel 45396, frame 25
Smartt, Brian E.; Price, Charles A.; Switkes, Joshua P.Peloton Technology, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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