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Term ends Oct 9, 2043 · High confidence

Filed Oct 21, 2020 as application 17/075,768 · Granted Dec 10, 2024
Base term plus 1083 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2020 2043
Clock starts
Oct 21, 2020
Term ends
Oct 9, 2043
Granted
Dec 10, 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
1,083
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.
6
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 1083 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 21, 2020, when this application, 17/075,768, was filedOct 21, 2040High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1083 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 9, 2043High 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 orderOct 9, 2043High confidence

This family

US 11,811,294In force
Feb 2041
Feb 2041
US 12,162,343this patent
Oct 2043
Oct 2043
Application 17/723,618Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 12,328,058In force
Jan 2040
Jan 2040
US 12,368,332In force
Jan 2040
Jan 2040
Application 19/266,907Pending
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
Oct 29, 2020
Reel 54213, frame 505
Bradfield, Michael D.BorgWarner Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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