Term ends May 16, 2041 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 5, 2041
Held by LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
Filed Jun 16, 2022 as application 17/786,248 · Granted Jul 30, 2024
Base term plus 100 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2021
2041
Clock starts
Feb 5, 2021
Feb 5, 2021
Term ends
May 16, 2041
May 16, 2041
Granted
Jul 30, 2024
Jul 30, 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
100
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.
55
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 100 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Feb 5, 2021, when application PCT/KR2021/001568, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 16, 2022) | Feb 5, 2041 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +100 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 16, 2041 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 16, 2041 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,998,548 | In force Nov 2035 | Nov 2035 |
| US 12,068,478 | In force no later than Mar 2037 | no later than Mar 2037 |
| US 12,384,271 | In force Jul 2042 | Jul 2042 |
| US 12,136,736 | In force Feb 2041 | Feb 2041 |
| Application 17/780,642 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 12,051,773 | this patent May 2041 | May 2041 |
| US 11,990,584 | In force Nov 2041 | Nov 2041 |
| US 12,278,359 | In force Dec 2040 | Dec 2040 |
8 of 55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2022 Reel 60234, frame 328 | Lee, Jung Pil; Kim, Ye Eun; Lee, Jeong Beom | LG Energy Solution, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2041
Term ends May 16, 2041. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 100 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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