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Components and Systems to Manage Thermal Runaway Issues in Electric Vehicle Batteries

US 12,355,050 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 28, 2024 (Midcap Funding IV Trust).

Term ends Jan 23, 2043 · High confidence

Filed Nov 30, 2020 as application 17/106,763 · Granted Jul 8, 2025
Base term plus 784 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2020 2043
Clock starts
Nov 30, 2020
Term ends
Jan 23, 2043
Granted
Jul 8, 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
784
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.
10
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 784 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

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 30, 2020, when this application, 17/106,763, was filedNov 30, 2040High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+784 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 23, 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 orderJan 23, 2043High confidence

This family

Application 62/942,495Provisional application
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US 12,355,050this patent
Jan 2043
Jan 2043
US 11,702,346In force
no later than Dec 2040
no later than Dec 2040
Application PCT/US2020/062622PCT application
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Application PCT/US2020/062618PCT application
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Application PCT/US2021/012559PCT application
no patent term
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US 12,401,077In force
Dec 2040
Dec 2040
Application 18/195,367Pending
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8 of 10 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Aug 13, 2021
Reel 57172, frame 512
Evans, Owen R; Gould, George L; Dekrafft, Kathryn Elizabeth; Mihalcik, David JAspen Aerogels, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 28, 2024
Reel 68792, frame 245
Aspen Aerogels, Inc.; Aspen Aerogels Rhode Island, LLCMidcap Funding IV TrustSecurity Interest

Sources

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