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Apparatus and Method for Pressing Secondary Battery

US 12,051,773 In force
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Term ends May 16, 2041 · High confidence

Filed Jun 16, 2022 as application 17/786,248 · Granted Jul 30, 2024
Base term plus 100 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2021 2041
Clock starts
Feb 5, 2021
Term ends
May 16, 2041
Granted
Jul 30, 2024
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
100
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.
55
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 100 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

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Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Feb 5, 2021, when application PCT/KR2021/001568, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 16, 2022)Feb 5, 2041High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+100 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 16, 2041High 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 orderMay 16, 2041High confidence

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Feb 2041
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Application 17/780,642Pending
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US 12,051,773this patent
May 2041
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Dec 2040
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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
Jun 17, 2022
Reel 60234, frame 328
Lee, Jung Pil; Kim, Ye Eun; Lee, Jeong BeomLG Energy Solution, Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

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