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Autonomous Truck Loading for Mining and Construction Applications

US 11,656,626 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

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 Feb 22, 2040 · High confidence

Filed Nov 7, 2019 as application 16/676,544 · Granted May 23, 2023
Base term plus 107 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2019 2040
Clock starts
Nov 7, 2019
Term ends
Feb 22, 2040
Granted
May 23, 2023
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
107
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.
4
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 107 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 7, 2019, when this application, 16/676,544, was filedNov 7, 2039High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+107 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 22, 2040High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 22, 2040High confidence

This family

US 11,656,626this patent
Feb 2040
Feb 2040
Application 16/676,666Abandoned
not computed
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US 12,085,940In force
no later than Nov 2039
no later than Nov 2039
Application 18/765,949Abandoned
not computed
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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
Sep 2, 2021
Reel 57405, frame 157
Lacaze, Alberto Daniel; Murphy, Karl NicholasRobotic Research, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 20, 2022
Reel 60877, frame 929
Robotic Research, LLCRobotic Research Opco, LLCMerger
Jan 30, 2024
Reel 66382, frame 141
Robotic Research Opco, LLCCrescent Cove Opportunity Lending, LLCSecurity Interest
Jul 16, 2024
Reel 68389, frame 707
Crescent Cove Opportunity Lending, LLC, as Administrative AgentRobotic Research Opco, LLCTermination and Release of Patent Security Interest Recorded at Reel 066382, Frame 0141
Jul 14, 2025
Reel 71945, frame 1
Robotic Research Opco, LLCCrescent Cove Opportunity Lending, LLCSecurity Interest

Sources

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

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