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System and Method for Providing Protected Data Storage in Data Memory

US 11,783,094 In force
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Term ends Jun 2, 2040 · High confidence

Filed Feb 24, 2021 as application 17/270,967 · Granted Oct 10, 2023
Base term plus 277 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2019 2040
Clock starts
Aug 30, 2019
Term ends
Jun 2, 2040
Granted
Oct 10, 2023
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
277
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 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.
4
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 277 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Aug 30, 2019, when application PCT/EP2019/073247, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 24, 2021)Aug 30, 2039High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+277 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 2, 2040High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 2, 2040High confidence

This family

US 11,783,094this patent
Jun 2040
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US 12,481,770In force
Aug 2039
Aug 2039
Application 19/398,509Pending
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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
Feb 24, 2021
Reel 55388, frame 277
Karkkainen, Tuomas; Laine, JouniGurulogic Microsystems OyAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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