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Container for Transporting Equipment for Space-Related Applications

US 12,459,717 In force
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Term ends Aug 25, 2043 · High confidence

Held by GSTC LLC
Filed Dec 19, 2022 as application 18/068,222 · Granted Nov 4, 2025
Base term plus 249 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2022 2043
Clock starts
Dec 19, 2022
Term ends
Aug 25, 2043
Granted
Nov 4, 2025
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
249
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.
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 249 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 Dec 19, 2022, when this application, 18/068,222, was filedDec 19, 2042High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+249 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 25, 2043High 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 orderAug 25, 2043High confidence

This family

Application 16/697,265Abandoned
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Nov 2039
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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 12,459,717this patent
Aug 2043
Aug 2043
US 12,292,258In force
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 17, 2023
Reel 62388, frame 191
Searle, Gideon P.GSTC LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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