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Computational Array Microprocessor System with Variable Latency Memory Access

US 11,157,287 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Oct 26, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Tesla, Inc.
Filed Mar 13, 2018 as application 15/920,150 · Granted Oct 26, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 43 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 26, 2025
2017 2037
Clock starts
Sep 20, 2017
No longer in force
Oct 26, 2025
Granted
Oct 26, 2021
Term would have run to
Nov 2, 2037
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
43
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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.
16
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Nov 2, 2037: its 20-year base term plus 43 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Sep 20, 2017, when application 15/710,433, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 13, 2018)Sep 20, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+43 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 2, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Oct 26, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 26, 2025High confidence

This family

US 10,671,349In force
Nov 2037
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US 11,157,441In force
May 2038
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US 11,157,287this patent
Oct 2025
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US 11,409,692In force
Sep 2037
Sep 2037
Application PCT/US2018/038618PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application PCT/US2018/042959PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,403,069In force
Sep 2037
Sep 2037
US 11,681,649In force
no later than Sep 2037
no later than Sep 2037
8 of 16 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
Jun 5, 2018
Reel 45993, frame 266
Talpes, Emil; Bannon, Peter Joseph; Hurd, Kevin AltairTesla, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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