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Methods and Systems for Facilitating Charging Sessions for Electric Vehicles, with Improved User Interface Operation Modes

US 11,724,616 In force, term unresolved
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 2, 2025 (Western Alliance Bank).

Term ends no later than Jul 25, 2040 · Low confidence

In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.

Held by Ampup, Inc.
Filed Feb 1, 2021 as application 17/163,638 · Granted Aug 15, 2023
Base term plus 194 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2020 2040
Clock starts
Jan 13, 2020
Ends no later than
Jul 25, 2040
Granted
Aug 15, 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
194
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
16
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 194 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 13, 2020, when application 16/741,712, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 1, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Jan 13, 2040High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+194 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 25, 2040High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Jul 25, 2040Low confidence

This family

US 10,836,274In force
Jan 2040
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US 10,953,765Lapsed on the fee record
Mar 2025
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US 10,981,464In force
Jan 2040
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US 11,648,846In force
Jul 2040
Jul 2040
Application PCT/US2021/012579PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,724,616this patent
no later than Jul 2040
no later than Jul 2040
US 11,724,617In force
no later than Apr 2040
no later than Apr 2040
US 11,673,483In force
no later than Jun 2040
no later than Jun 2040
8 of 16 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Feb 8, 2021
Reel 55184, frame 130
Sun, Thomas Shaofeng; Gavrilovic, Timotej; Nguyen, Thai Vinh LocNad Grid Corp.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 17, 2024
Reel 66803, frame 133
Nad Grid Corp.Ampup, Inc.Change of Name
Jul 2, 2025
Reel 71594, frame 505
Ampup, Inc.Western Alliance BankSecurity Interest

Sources

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

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