Extensions — US Patent 11336597

Patent Term and Expiration Analysis for US 11,336,597

As of April 28, 2026, the following details pertain to the term, application history, and projected expiration of US Patent 11,336,597.

Projected Expiration Date

The projected expiration date for US Patent 11,336,597 is October 16, 2032.

This date is calculated 20 years from the filing date of the earliest non-provisional application in the family, which is U.S. Application No. 13/653,119, filed on October 16, 2012.

Patent Term Adjustments (PTA) & Extensions (PTE)

Patent Term Adjustment (PTA): There has been no Patent Term Adjustment granted for this patent. The "Adjusted expiration" date of October 16, 2032, noted in the patent's metadata, matches the standard 20-year term from the earliest non-provisional filing date. This indicates an effective PTA of zero days.
Patent Term Extension (PTE): There is no indication of any Patent Term Extension, which is typically granted for delays in regulatory review (e.g., by the FDA) and is not applicable in this case.

Application and Family History

US Patent 11,336,597 issued from application US17/573,056, filed on January 11, 2022. This patent is part of a large family of continuing applications that all claim priority to a provisional application filed in 2011.

Continuity Chain:
The patent is a continuation of a chain of prior applications, establishing its priority date. The chain is as follows:

This patent (US 11,336,597) is a continuation of:
Application 17/036,709 (issued as US 11,240,183) which is a continuation of:
Application 15/892,129 (issued as US 10,841,253) which is a continuation of:
Application 14/814,337 (issued as US 9,894,019) which is a continuation of:
Application 13/653,119 (issued as US 9,106,599) which claims the benefit of:
Provisional Application 61/627,714, filed on October 17, 2011.

Subsequent Continuation Applications (Continuations filed after this patent):
The assignee, Disintermediation Services Inc., has continued to file applications in this family after the application for the '597 patent was filed. These include:

US Application 17/572,958 (issued as US 11,349,787)
US Application 17/740,526 (issued as US 11,418,466)
US Application 17/868,970 (issued as US 11,855,936)
US Application 17/939,730 (issued as US 11,855,937)
US Application 18/225,987 (status pending)

Divisional Applications:
Based on the provided patent data, there are no divisional applications related to US 11,336,597 or its parent applications. The prosecution strategy has focused on a series of continuation applications rather than divisionals.

Full Patent Family:
The patent family includes a large number of related U.S. patents and applications, all sharing the same priority claim. The known members of this family are: