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US Patent 11356947: Patent Term, Family Members, and Projected Expiration

Patent Term Adjustments (PTA)

Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) is granted to compensate for administrative delays incurred during prosecution before the USPTO. While the provided information states that the patent is "Active" and expires "2037-02-02," it does not explicitly state the amount of PTA awarded to US11356947. To determine the exact PTA, the prosecution history of the patent on the USPTO Patent Center would need to be reviewed.

Patent Term Extensions (PTE)

Patent Term Extension (PTE) is awarded to compensate for delays in obtaining regulatory approval on a patented product or methods of manufacturing or using the product, typically for certain human drugs, food or color additives, medical devices, animal drugs, and veterinary biological products. There is no information in the provided text to suggest that US11356947 has received any Patent Term Extension. This type of patent typically applies to FDA-regulated products.

Continuation and Divisional Applications

• Continuation Application: A continuation application is filed during the pendency of a prior nonprovisional application, disclosing the same invention without new matter, and includes claims directed to the same invention.
• Divisional Application: A divisional application arises when an original application claims two or more independent and distinct inventions, and the applicant is required to restrict the application to one invention. The other invention can then be pursued in a divisional application, which also benefits from the filing date of the original application.

The provided information indicates that US11356947 is a utility patent, and a search for its family members would reveal if any continuation or divisional applications have been filed. However, the provided text does not explicitly list any continuation or divisional applications for US11356947.

Related Family Members

The Google Patents page for US11356947 lists "US20200267654A1" as "Other versions." This is a related family member, specifically a patent application publication, for the same invention as US11356947B2.

• US20200267654A1: This is the patent application that led to the grant of US11356947B2. It was published on 2020-08-20.

To ascertain if there are other related family members, such as additional continuations, divisionals, or continuations-in-part, a full family search would typically be conducted through the USPTO Patent Center or other patent databases.

Projected Expiration Date

The "Legal status" section of the Google Patents page states that US11356947 is "Active" and "expires 2037-02-02."

The statutory term for U.S. utility patents filed on or after June 8, 1995, is 20 years from the earliest effective filing date. The filing date for US11356947 is 2020-05-07, and its priority date is 2015-12-24. The 20-year term would typically be calculated from the earliest priority date. In this case, 20 years from the priority date of 2015-12-24 would be 2035-12-24.

However, the stated expiration date of 2037-02-02 suggests that Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) has been applied to extend the patent term. PTA compensates for delays caused by the USPTO during examination. Therefore, the projected expiration date for US11356947 is 2037-02-02.