Extensions

For US Patent 10,917,272, the following details regarding its term, family members, and application types have been identified from the provided authoritative patent text:

Patent Term Adjustments (PTA) / Patent Term Extensions (PTE):
The patent's "Anticipated expiration" date is listed as 2030-08-20. The earliest non-provisional filing date in the chain of applications, from which the patent term is typically calculated (20 years), is the international filing date of PCT Application No. PCT/US2010/046088, which is 2010-08-20. As the anticipated expiration date (2030-08-20) is exactly 20 years from this earliest non-provisional filing date, it indicates that there were either no patent term adjustments (PTA) or patent term extensions (PTE) that extended the patent's term, or any such adjustments resulted in a net zero change to the standard 20-year term. The patent text does not explicitly detail any specific PTA or PTE calculations.

Continuation Applications:
US Patent 10,917,272 is part of a long chain of continuation applications. The patent itself is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/394,490, filed April 25, 2019 (now U.S. Pat. No. 10,554,459). This chain extends backward through multiple continuations to PCT Application No. PCT/US2010/046088, which was filed on August 20, 2010, and claims the benefit of U.S. Patent Application No. 61/235,909, filed August 21, 2009 (provisional application).

The chain of continuation applications leading to US10917272 includes:

• U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/394,490 (U.S. Pat. No. 10,554,459)
• U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/125,206 (U.S. Pat. No. 10,291,449)
• U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/958,519 (U.S. Pat. No. 10,079,707)
• U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/476,284 (U.S. Pat. No. 9,973,361)
• U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/350,418 (U.S. Pat. No. 9,614,566)
• U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/376,856 (U.S. Pat. No. 9,584,262)
• PCT Application No. PCT/US2010/046088

Divisional Applications:
The provided patent text does not explicitly mention any divisional applications related to US10917272. The relationship between the applications is consistently described as a "continuation of" in the "RELATED APPLICATION DATA" section.

Related Family Members:
The patent is part of a larger patent family (Family ID=43297064) which includes numerous continuation applications. Beyond the direct chain of continuations mentioned above, other related applications in this family, all stemming from the same priority date of 2009-08-21 (via the PCT filing), include:

• US17/136,801 (US11212146B2) - Filed 2020-12-29
• US17/540,189 (US11646927B2) - Filed 2021-12-01
• US17/539,814 (US11469934B2) - Filed 2021-12-01
• US17/939,904 (US11777776B2) - Filed 2022-09-07
• US18/234,879 (US12063134B2) - Filed 2023-08-17
• US18/766,636 (US12615176B2) - Filed 2024-07-08

Projected Expiration Date:
The projected expiration date for US Patent 10,917,272 is 2030-08-20.