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System and Method for Autonomously Scanning and Processing a Workpiece

US 12,370,681 In force
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Term ends Jul 31, 2041 · High confidence

Filed May 27, 2022 as application 17/826,840 · Granted Jul 29, 2025
Base term plus 284 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2021 2041
Clock starts
Jul 31, 2021
Term ends
Jul 31, 2041
Granted
Jul 29, 2025
base term 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
284
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,613,014, US 12,049,009.
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.
39
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 284 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jul 31, 2021, when application 17/390,885, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 27, 2022)Jul 31, 2041High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+284 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 11, 2042High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,613,014, US 12,049,009)capped to Jul 31, 2041High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 31, 2041High confidence

This family

Application 17/390,885Abandoned
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Application 17/826,867Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 12,370,681this patent
Jul 2041
Jul 2041
US 11,584,005In force
no later than Jul 2041
no later than Jul 2041
US 11,613,014In force
Jul 2041
Jul 2041
US 11,897,136In force
Jul 2041
Jul 2041
US 12,049,009In force
Jul 2041
Jul 2041
US 11,820,016In force
Jul 2041
Jul 2041
8 of 39 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
Nov 8, 2022
Reel 61697, frame 901
Ahire, Avadhoot L.; Guha, Rishav; Gupta, Satyandra K.; Kabir, Ariyan M.; Shah, Brual CGraymatter Robotics Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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