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Systems and Methods for In-Flight Operational Assessment

US 11,964,780 In force
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Term ends Dec 15, 2039 · High confidence

Filed Jun 16, 2021 as application 17/349,182 · Granted Apr 23, 2024
Base term plus 65 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2019 2039
Clock starts
Oct 11, 2019
Term ends
Dec 15, 2039
Granted
Apr 23, 2024
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
65
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
18
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 65 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are 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 Oct 11, 2019, when application 16/599,538, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 16, 2021)Oct 11, 2039High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+65 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 15, 2039High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 15, 2039High confidence

This family

Application 16/599,538Abandoned
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not computed
US 11,592,841In force
Feb 2040
Feb 2040
Application PCT/US2020/019969PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,584,541In force
Jan 2040
Jan 2040
Application PCT/US2020/063598PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,597,508In force
May 2041
May 2041
US 11,964,780this patent
Dec 2039
Dec 2039
US 12,017,784In force
no later than Jun 2040
no later than Jun 2040
8 of 18 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
Nov 29, 2021
Reel 58230, frame 212
Wiegman, HermanBeta Air, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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