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US 12,553,711 In force
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Term ends Feb 25, 2040 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed Oct 25, 2023 as application 18/494,497 · Granted Feb 17, 2026
Base term plus 302 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2019 2040
Clock starts
Apr 29, 2019
Term ends
Feb 25, 2040
Granted
Feb 17, 2026
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
302
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.
5
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 302 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Apr 29, 2019, when application 16/397,428, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 25, 2023); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Apr 29, 2039High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+302 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 25, 2040High 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 orderFeb 25, 2040Medium confidence

This family

US 10,551,179In force
Apr 2039
Apr 2039
US 11,209,264In force
Jun 2039
Jun 2039
US 11,859,964In force
Jun 2039
Jun 2039
US 12,553,711this patent
Feb 2040
Feb 2040
Application 19/538,038Pending
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Oct 3, 2024
Reel 68789, frame 5
Path Robotics, Inc.Triplepoint Private Venture Credit Inc.Security Interest
Apr 29, 2026
Reel 74519, frame 513
Path Robotics, Inc.Trinity Capital Inc.Security Interest
May 19, 2026
Reel 74700, frame 957
Triplepoint Private Venture Credit Inc.Path Robotics, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

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

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