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Electric Vehicle Battery Frame Assembly

US 11,124,076 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Sep 21, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed May 17, 2021 as application 17/321,724 · Granted Sep 21, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Sep 21, 2025
2021 2041
Clock starts
May 17, 2021
No longer in force
Sep 21, 2025
Granted
Sep 21, 2021
Term would have run to
May 17, 2041
base term after the term ends Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
12
Family applications on record here
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Its term would have run to May 17, 2041: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts May 17, 2021, when this application, 17/321,724, was filedMay 17, 2041High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Sep 21, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 21, 2025High confidence

This family

US 11,124,076this patent
Sep 2025
Sep 2025
US 11,279,243In force
Aug 2041
Aug 2041
US 11,970,066In force
no later than May 2041
no later than May 2041
US 11,707,995In force
Oct 2041
Oct 2041
US 11,820,241In force
Jul 2041
Jul 2041
US 11,827,112In force
Oct 2041
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US 12,024,034In force
May 2041
May 2041
Application PCT/US2022/050138PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
8 of 12 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

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
May 26, 2021
Reel 56362, frame 365
Borghi, Cory; Emami, SaeidNikola CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 25, 2025
Reel 73706, frame 118
Nikola CorporationHyroad Networks LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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