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Term,Continuity, and Family Details for U.S. Patent 11,301,898

Based on a thorough review of the data in the USPTO Patent Center for U.S. Patent No. 11,301,898, the following details regarding its term, application history, and related patents have been determined.

Patent Term and Projected Expiration

• Patent Term Adjustment (PTA): There has been no Patent Term Adjustment granted for this patent. The USPTO calculated zero days of adjustment.
• Patent Term Extension (PTE): There are no Patent Term Extensions indicated for this patent. PTE is typically granted for delays caused by pre-market regulatory review and is not applicable here.
• Projected Expiration Date: The patent's term is 20 years from the earliest effective, non-provisional filing date. The application for this patent (17/097,865) is a continuation of a long chain of applications tracing back to the application for U.S. Patent No. 7,747,745, which was filed on June 14, 2007. This 2007 filing date establishes the priority date for the entire family. Therefore, the projected expiration date for U.S. Patent 11,301,898 is June 14, 2027.

Continuity and Application History

U.S. Patent 11,301,898, which issued from application Ser. No. 17/097,865 (filed November 13, 2020), is a continuation of a preceding application. This places it within a chain of "continuation applications," meaning the applicant filed a new application that claims the benefit of the filing date of a prior, co-pending application from the same inventor.

The direct lineage for this patent is as follows:

• This application (17/097,865) is a continuation of Ser. No. 16/678,196 (now U.S. Pat. No. 10,839,423).

This patent does not have any divisional applications listed. A divisional application would arise if the original application was determined by the USPTO to contain more than one distinct invention.

Related Patent Family Members

U.S. Patent 11,301,898 is part of a large and actively litigated patent family, all stemming from provisional applications filed on June 16, 2006, and June 19, 2006. All patents in this family share the same core specification and drawings but have different claims. The family is assigned to Almondnet Inc. and names Roy Shkedi as the inventor.

The chain of continuation applications has resulted in numerous granted U.S. patents, including:

• U.S. Pat. No. 7,747,745 (from application Ser. No. 11/763,286)
• U.S. Pat. No. 8,204,783 (from application Ser. No. 12/823,709)
• U.S. Pat. No. 8,671,139 (from application Ser. No. 13/491,454)
• U.S. Pat. No. 8,959,146 (from application Ser. No. 14/201,494)
• U.S. Pat. No. 9,208,514 (from application Ser. No. 14/620,502)
• U.S. Pat. No. 9,508,089 (from application Ser. No. 14/960,237)
• U.S. Pat. No. 9,830,615 (from application Ser. No. 15/360,762)
• U.S. Pat. No. 10,134,054 (from application Ser. No. 15/822,974)
• U.S. Pat. No. 10,475,073 (from application Ser. No. 16/194,203)
• U.S. Pat. No. 10,839,423 (from application Ser. No. 16/678,196)

Furthermore, the family continues to expand. After the '898 patent was granted, Almondnet Inc. filed at least one subsequent continuation application:

• Application Ser. No. 17/714,936, filed on April 6, 2022, which has since issued as U.S. Pat. No. 11,610,226.