Term ends Sep 12, 2040 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 21, 2040
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Renu Robotics Corp.
Filed Aug 13, 2021 as application 17/402,269 · Granted Oct 22, 2024
Base term plus 235 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Jan 21, 2020
Jan 21, 2020
Term ends
Sep 12, 2040
Sep 12, 2040
Granted
Oct 22, 2024
Oct 22, 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
235
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.
15
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 235 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jan 21, 2020, when application 16/748,465, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 13, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 21, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +235 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 12, 2040 | 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 | Sep 12, 2040 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 62/904,451 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,510,361 | In force Apr 2040 | Apr 2040 |
| US 11,944,032 | In force Oct 2040 | Oct 2040 |
| US 12,123,702 | this patent Sep 2040 | Sep 2040 |
| US 12,193,358 | In force Jul 2040 | Jul 2040 |
| US 11,951,977 | In force Aug 2040 | Aug 2040 |
| US 12,253,352 | In force May 2042 | May 2042 |
| US 12,117,532 | In force Nov 2041 | Nov 2041 |
8 of 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2021 Reel 57908, frame 753 | Alban, Marc Christopher; Kozak, Kristopher Charles; Blanton, Michael Odell, JR; Matus, Tim A | Renu Robotics Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2040
Term ends Sep 12, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 235 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.