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US 12,165,632 In force, term unresolved
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 27, 2024 (Ocean II Plo LLC).

Term ends no later than Apr 4, 2039 · Medium 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 Syntiant
Filed Dec 6, 2021 as application 17/543,386 · Granted Dec 10, 2024
Base term plus 97 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2018 2039
Clock starts
Dec 28, 2018
Ends no later than
Apr 4, 2039
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
97
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.
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.
5
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 97 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. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 28, 2018, when application 16/235,396, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 6, 2021)Dec 28, 2038High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+97 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 4, 2039High 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 events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Apr 4, 2039Medium confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2018/067899PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,504,507In force
Dec 2038
Dec 2038
US 11,195,520In force
Dec 2038
Dec 2038
US 12,165,632this patent
no later than Apr 2039
no later than Apr 2039
Application 18/974,118Pending
not computed
not computed
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
Dec 6, 2021
Reel 58311, frame 415
Busch, Kurt F.; Holleman, Jeremiah H., III; Vorenkamp, Pieter; Bailey, Stephen W.SyntiantAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 27, 2024
Reel 69687, frame 757
Syntiant Corp.; Pilot AI Labs, Inc.; Syntiant Taiwan LLC; Syntiant Holdings LLCOcean II Plo LLCSecurity Interest

Sources

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

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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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