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Autonomous Vehicle Refueling

US 11,513,521 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Feb 13, 2037 · Low confidence

Filed May 14, 2020 as application 16/874,205 · Granted Nov 29, 2022
Base term plus 261 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2037
Clock starts
Jan 18, 2017
Term ends
Feb 13, 2037
Granted
Nov 29, 2022
base term patent term adjustment 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
261
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,691,126.
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.
8
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 261 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 Jan 18, 2017, when application 15/409,220, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 14, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jan 18, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+261 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 6, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,691,126)capped to Feb 13, 2037High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Further caveats on recordThe record names parents not resolved: 15976990, 15413796Low confidence overallLow confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 13, 2037Low confidence

This family

US 10,065,517In force
Feb 2037
Feb 2037
US 10,042,359In force
Feb 2037
Feb 2037
US 10,691,126In force
Feb 2037
Feb 2037
US 10,828,999In force
Feb 2037
Feb 2037
US 11,513,521this patent
Feb 2037
Feb 2037
US 11,920,938In force
no later than Jun 2038
no later than Jun 2038
Application 17/950,613Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application 17/972,935Abandoned
not computed
not computed
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 14, 2020
Reel 52665, frame 852
Konrardy, Blake; Christensen, Scott T.; Hayward, Gregory; Farris, ScottState Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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