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US 12,708,711 In force
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Term ends Feb 23, 2034 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed Sep 29, 2022 as application 17/956,618 · Granted Aug 18, 2026
Base term plus 936 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2011 2034
Clock starts
Aug 2, 2011
Term ends
Feb 23, 2034
Granted
Aug 18, 2026
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
936
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 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
13
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 936 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 1 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 Aug 2, 2011, when application 13/196,419, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 29, 2022); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Aug 2, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+936 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 23, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 1 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 23, 2034Medium confidence

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Sources

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

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