Term ends Mar 13, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 13, 2040
Held by Simbe Robotics, Inc.
Filed Dec 7, 2020 as application 17/113,877 · Granted Nov 29, 2022
Base term plus 25 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Mar 13, 2020
Mar 13, 2020
Term ends
Mar 13, 2040
Mar 13, 2040
Granted
Nov 29, 2022
Nov 29, 2022
base term
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
25
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 10,891,589.
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.
17
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 25 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Mar 13, 2020, when application 16/817,972, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 7, 2020) | Mar 13, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +25 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 7, 2040 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,891,589) | capped to Mar 13, 2040 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 13, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,467,587 | In force Apr 2038 | Apr 2038 |
| US 11,341,454 | In force Nov 2037 | Nov 2037 |
| US 10,891,589 | In force Mar 2040 | Mar 2040 |
| US 11,593,755 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US 11,514,398 | this patent Mar 2040 | Mar 2040 |
| US 12,248,908 | In force Nov 2037 | Nov 2037 |
| US 11,544,668 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 12,430,604 | In force Jul 2038 | Jul 2038 |
8 of 17 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2022 Reel 59941, frame 58 | Bogolea, Bradley; Tiwari, Durgesh | Simbe Robotics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 17, 2023 Reel 63669, frame 757 | Simbe Robotics, Inc. | Eastward Fund Management, LLC | Security Interest |
| Jan 4, 2024 Reel 66023, frame 126 | Eastward Fund Management, LLC | Simbe Robotics, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
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What's changing
Mar 2040
Term ends Mar 13, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 25 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,891,589.
Citations
8
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.