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Electric Rail Vehicle

US 12,774,020 In force
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Term ends May 22, 2042 · High confidence

Filed Apr 15, 2024 as application 18/635,029 · Granted Oct 27, 2026
Base term plus 355 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2021 2042
Clock starts
Jun 1, 2021
Term ends
May 22, 2042
Granted
Oct 27, 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
355
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.
4
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 355 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 Jun 1, 2021, when application 17/335,732, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 15, 2024)Jun 1, 2041High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+355 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 22, 2042High 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 22, 2042High confidence

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US 11,987,277In force
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US 12,774,020this patent
May 2042
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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
Jun 10, 2024
Reel 67677, frame 487
Soule, Matthew; Howard, John; Stabler, Benjamin Stuart; Ignaut, BrianParallel Systems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 10, 2024
Reel 69535, frame 9
Parallel Systems, Inc.First-Citizens Bank & Trust CompanySecurity Interest
Aug 19, 2025
Reel 72062, frame 201
First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company (FKA: Silicon Valley Bank)Parallel Systems, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

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

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