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Controlled Flight of a Multicopter Experiencing a Failure Affecting an Effector

US 12,473,076 In force
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Term ends Jul 25, 2035 · High confidence

Held by Eth Zurich
Filed Jan 23, 2023 as application 18/100,010 · Granted Nov 18, 2025
Base term plus 415 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2035
Clock starts
Jun 5, 2014
Term ends
Jul 25, 2035
Granted
Nov 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
415
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
8
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 415 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 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 Jun 5, 2014, when application PCT/EP2014/061760, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 23, 2023)Jun 5, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+415 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 25, 2035High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 25, 2035High confidence

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US 9,856,016In force
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US 11,591,071In force
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US 12,473,076this patent
Jul 2035
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Application 19/366,684Pending
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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
Jan 23, 2023
Reel 62451, frame 520
D'andrea, Raffaello; Lupashin, Sergei; Mueller, Mark W.; Waibel, MarkusEth ZurichAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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