Also listed on Robotic Research, LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 14, 2025 (Crescent Cove Opportunity Lending, LLC).
Term ends Jun 1, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 8, 2039
Held by Robotic Research Opco, LLC
Filed Nov 8, 2019 as application 16/678,244 · Granted Jul 26, 2022
Base term plus 206 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2019
2040
Clock starts
Nov 8, 2019
Nov 8, 2019
Term ends
Jun 1, 2040
Jun 1, 2040
Granted
Jul 26, 2022
Jul 26, 2022
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
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
206
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.
3
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 206 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Nov 8, 2019, when this application, 16/678,244, was filed | Nov 8, 2039 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +206 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 1, 2040 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 1, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,397,438 | this patent Jun 2040 | Jun 2040 |
| US 11,774,981 | In force Nov 2039 | Nov 2039 |
| US 12,124,267 | In force Nov 2039 | Nov 2039 |
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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2021 Reel 57405, frame 157 | Lacaze, Alberto Daniel; Murphy, Karl Nicholas | Robotic Research, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 29, 2022 Reel 59543, frame 696 | Robotic Research, LLC | Robotic Research Opco, LLC | Merger |
| Jan 30, 2024 Reel 66382, frame 141 | Robotic Research Opco, LLC | Crescent Cove Opportunity Lending, LLC | Security Interest |
| Jul 16, 2024 Reel 68389, frame 707 | Crescent Cove Opportunity Lending, LLC, as Administrative Agent | Robotic Research Opco, LLC | Termination and Release of Patent Security Interest Recorded at Reel 066382, Frame 0141 |
| Jul 14, 2025 Reel 71945, frame 1 | Robotic Research Opco, LLC | Crescent Cove Opportunity Lending, LLC | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2040
Term ends Jun 1, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 206 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
18
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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