Term ends Aug 19, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 19, 2037
Held by Simbe Robotics, Inc.
Filed May 21, 2020 as application 16/880,582 · Granted Feb 28, 2023
Base term plus 92 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
May 19, 2017
May 19, 2017
Term ends
Aug 19, 2037
Aug 19, 2037
Granted
Feb 28, 2023
Feb 28, 2023
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
92
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.
17
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 92 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 May 19, 2017, when application 15/600,527, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 21, 2020) | May 19, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +92 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 19, 2037 | 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 | Aug 19, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,467,587 | In force Apr 2038 | Apr 2038 |
| US 11,341,454 | In force Nov 2037 | Nov 2037 |
| US 10,891,589 | In force Mar 2040 | Mar 2040 |
| US 11,593,755 | this patent Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US 11,514,398 | In force Mar 2040 | Mar 2040 |
| US 12,248,908 | In force Nov 2037 | Nov 2037 |
| US 11,544,668 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 12,430,604 | In force Jul 2038 | Jul 2038 |
8 of 17 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2020 Reel 53490, frame 576 | Bogolea, Bradley; Tiwari, Durgesh | Simbe Robotics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 11, 2022 Reel 59941, frame 693 | Bogolea, Bradley; Shah, Mirza Akbar; Vandegrift, Lorin; Fraser, Luke; Safi, Jariullah; Gee, Jeffrey | Simbe Robotics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 17, 2023 Reel 63669, frame 757 | Simbe Robotics, Inc. | Eastward Fund Management, LLC | Security Interest |
| Jan 4, 2024 Reel 66023, frame 126 | Eastward Fund Management, LLC | Simbe Robotics, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
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What's changing
Aug 2037
Term ends Aug 19, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 92 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
23
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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