Term ends Oct 4, 2039 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends May 7, 2039
Held by Joby Aero, Inc.
Filed Jan 6, 2022 as application 17/570,071 · Granted Aug 6, 2024
Base term plus 263 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2019
2039
Clock starts
May 7, 2019
May 7, 2019
Term ends
Oct 4, 2039
Oct 4, 2039
Granted
Aug 6, 2024
Aug 6, 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
263
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 10,960,975.
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.
9
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 263 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 May 7, 2019, when application 16/405,493, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 6, 2022); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | May 7, 2039 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +263 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 25, 2040 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,960,975) | capped to Oct 4, 2039 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 16405493 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 4, 2039 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 11,244,572 | In force Oct 2039 | Oct 2039 |
| US 11,238,745 | In force Oct 2039 | Oct 2039 |
| Application PCT/US2020/037002 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,955,017 | In force Jun 2039 | Jun 2039 |
| US 12,057,021 | this patent Oct 2039 | Oct 2039 |
| US 12,347,325 | In force May 2039 | May 2039 |
| US 12,725,099 | In force Feb 2039 | Feb 2039 |
| US 12,705,551 | In force Jun 2039 | Jun 2039 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2023 Reel 64326, frame 351 | Uber Technologies, Inc. | Uber Elevate, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 20, 2023 Reel 64328, frame 457 | Joby Elevate, Inc. | Joby Aero, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 20, 2023 Reel 64353, frame 526 | Uber Elevate, Inc. | Joby Elevate, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 21, 2023 Reel 64341, frame 433 | Villa, Ian Andreas; Prevot, Thomas; Badalamenti, John Conway; Moore, Mark | Uber Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2039
Term ends Oct 4, 2039. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 263 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 10,960,975.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
Fewer than half of the utility patents granted in 2024 in our data have been cited yet, so we show the count and do not rank on it.
How we rank
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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.