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US 12,232,138 In force
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Term ends Jan 25, 2042 · High confidence

Filed Nov 29, 2022 as application 18/070,549 · Granted Feb 18, 2025
Base term plus 176 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2021 2042
Clock starts
Aug 2, 2021
Term ends
Jan 25, 2042
Granted
Feb 18, 2025
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
176
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.
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 176 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 Aug 2, 2021, when application 17/392,149, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 29, 2022)Aug 2, 2041High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+176 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 25, 2042High 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 orderJan 25, 2042High confidence

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US 12,232,138this patent
Jan 2042
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Application 19/010,387Pending
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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
Feb 20, 2023
Reel 62744, frame 915
Babaei, AlirezaPanpsy Technologies, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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