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US 12,292,258 In force
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Term ends Nov 27, 2039 · High confidence

Held by GSTC LLC
Filed Jan 13, 2023 as application 18/154,529 · Granted May 6, 2025
Base term plus 236 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2019 2039
Clock starts
Nov 27, 2019
Term ends
Nov 27, 2039
Granted
May 6, 2025
base term 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
236
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 11,435,161, US 11,635,278.
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.
35
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 236 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: 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 Nov 27, 2019, when application 16/697,265, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 13, 2023)Nov 27, 2039High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+236 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 20, 2040High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,435,161, US 11,635,278)capped to Nov 27, 2039High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 27, 2039High confidence

This family

Application 16/697,265Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 11,435,161In force
Nov 2039
Nov 2039
Application PCT/US2020/061039PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,939,145In force
Jun 2042
Jun 2042
Application PCT/US2022/034176PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,635,278In force
Nov 2039
Nov 2039
US 12,459,717In force
Aug 2043
Aug 2043
US 12,292,258this patent
Nov 2039
Nov 2039
8 of 35 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jan 16, 2023
Reel 62381, frame 760
Bear Hyde, LLCGSTC LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 16, 2023
Reel 62381, frame 763
Searle, Gideon P.; Root, Theodore Bobrick, JR.Bear Hyde, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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