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US 11,409,692 In force
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Term ends Sep 20, 2037 · Medium confidence

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

Held by Tesla, Inc.
Filed Mar 13, 2018 as application 15/920,156 · Granted Aug 9, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2017 2037
Clock starts
Sep 20, 2017
Term ends
Sep 20, 2037
Granted
Aug 9, 2022
base term fee events 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
16
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 Sep 20, 2017, when application 15/710,433, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 13, 2018); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Sep 20, 2037High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 20, 2037Medium confidence

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Sep 2037
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Application PCT/US2018/038618PCT application
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Application PCT/US2018/042959PCT application
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Sep 2037
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US 11,681,649In force
no later than Sep 2037
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8 of 16 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
May 29, 2018
Reel 45921, frame 668
Das Sarma, Debjit; Talpes, Emil; Bannon, Peter JosephTesla, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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