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Two Wheeled Robot with Enhanced Climbing Features

US 11,312,031 In force
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Term ends Feb 12, 2030 · High confidence

Filed Jun 23, 2020 as application 16/909,406 · Granted Apr 26, 2022
Base term plus 65 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2009 2030
Clock starts
Dec 9, 2009
Term ends
Feb 12, 2030
Granted
Apr 26, 2022
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
65
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 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
7
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 65 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 1 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 9, 2009, when application 12/634,610, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 23, 2020)Dec 9, 2029High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+65 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 12, 2030High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 1 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 12, 2030High confidence

This family

Application 12/634,610Abandoned
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US 9,061,544In force
Dec 2029
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Application 14/747,780Abandoned
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US 10,688,671In force
Jun 2030
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US 11,312,031this patent
Feb 2030
Feb 2030
US 11,691,302In force
Dec 2029
Dec 2029
US 12,643,248In force
Dec 2029
Dec 2029
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
Dec 10, 2020
Reel 54603, frame 291
Carlson, Casey R.; Drenner, Andrew; Kossett, Alex J.; Burt, Ian T.Reconrobotics, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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