Term ends Sep 20, 2042 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 8, 2039
Held by Cepton Technologies, Inc.
Filed Jul 8, 2019 as application 16/504,989 · Granted Nov 21, 2023
Base term plus 1170 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2019
2042
Clock starts
Jul 8, 2019
Jul 8, 2019
Term ends
Sep 20, 2042
Sep 20, 2042
Granted
Nov 21, 2023
Nov 21, 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
1,170
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.
3
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 1170 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jul 8, 2019, when this application, 16/504,989, was filed | Jul 8, 2039 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1170 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 20, 2042 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 20, 2042 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,822,020 | this patent Sep 2042 | Sep 2042 |
| Application PCT/US2019/040963 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 17/385,669 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2019 Reel 50418, frame 699 | Pei, Jun; McCord, Mark A.; Xu, Ying | Cepton Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 8, 2022 Reel 61690, frame 653 | Cepton Technologies, Inc. | Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | Security Interest |
| Jan 25, 2023 Reel 62485, frame 955 | Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | Cepton Technologies, Inc., a Delaware Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2042
Term ends Sep 20, 2042. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1170 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
18
later US patents cite this one
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