Extensions

Term, Continuations, and Family for US 11,383,405

Patent Term and Expiration

• Patent Term Adjustment (PTA): US patent 11,383,405 has a calculated Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) of 0 days. The USPTO did not identify any prosecution delays that would warrant an extension of the patent's term under 35 U.S.C. § 154(b).
• Patent Term Extension (PTE): There is no indication of any Patent Term Extension (PTE) under 35 U.S.C. § 156, which typically applies to products that undergo a lengthy regulatory review process (e.g., pharmaceuticals).
• Filing Date: The application was filed on December 29, 2020.
• Projected Expiration Date: The patent's term is calculated as 20 years from its filing date. With zero days of PTA or other extensions, the projected expiration date is December 29, 2040.

Continuity and Related Applications

A review of the USPTO's continuity data indicates that US application 17/136,390 (which issued as US patent 11,383,405) is a continuation of the international PCT application PCT/JP2020/012764, filed on March 23, 2020. This PCT application serves as the priority document for the US patent and its international family members.

There are no divisional, continuation, or continuation-in-part applications that claim priority to US patent 11,383,405 itself.

International Patent Family

US patent 11,383,405 is part of a family of patents and applications that all claim priority to the same PCT application, PCT/JP2020/012764. The known members of this international patent family include:

• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO): WO2021191978A1
• Japan: JP6790313B1
• China: CN113710443A
• Germany: DE112020000052B4

This indicates that the assignee, NGK Insulators Ltd., sought protection for this invention in key global markets including the US, Japan, China, and Europe (via the German patent).