Extensions

To provide a comprehensive analysis of US Patent 11650968, I will detail any patent term adjustments (PTA), patent term extensions (PTE), continuation applications, divisional applications, related family members, and the projected expiration date, based on the current date of April 26, 2026.

Patent Term Adjustments (PTA)

Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) is granted to a patent to compensate for certain delays caused by the USPTO during the prosecution of a utility or plant patent application. This adds time to the standard 20-year patent term from the filing date. Key USPTO delays that trigger PTA include:

• Failure to issue a first office action or notice of allowance within 14 months of filing.
• Failure to act on an application within four months of an applicant's response to an office action.
• Failure to issue a patent within four months of payment of the issue fee.

Applicant delays can reduce or eliminate PTA.

The USPTO automatically determines the PTA period and transmits a notice of this determination no later than the patent's issue date. Applicants have one opportunity to request reconsideration of the PTA calculation within two months of the patent's issuance, a deadline that can be extended by up to five months with appropriate fees.

To determine the specific PTA for US11650968, direct access to the patent's prosecution history in USPTO Patent Center or Public Search is required, which is beyond the scope of this tool. However, the Google Patents entry for US11650968B2 indicates an "Adjusted expiration" date of 2041-10-22, which suggests that some form of patent term adjustment has already been calculated and applied, extending it beyond the typical 20 years from its filing date of 2019-12-09.

Patent Term Extensions (PTE)

Patent Term Extensions (PTE) are distinct from PTA and are available for patents claiming certain human drug products, medical device products, animal drug products, veterinary biological products, and food or color additive products. PTE aims to restore patent term lost due to premarket government approval processes by regulatory agencies like the FDA. The extension is limited to a maximum of five years, and the total patent life with a PTE cannot exceed 14 years from the date of FDA approval.

Since US11650968 relates to "Systems and methods for predictive early stopping in neural network training" and not to a regulated product requiring premarket approval, it is highly unlikely to be eligible for a Patent Term Extension under 35 U.S.C. 156.

Continuation and Divisional Applications

• Continuation Applications: A continuation application uses the same disclosure as an earlier non-provisional application, filed while the earlier application is still pending. It allows for further examination of claims not allowed in the parent application.
• Divisional Applications: A divisional application is filed when an original application claims two or more independent and distinct inventions, and the USPTO requires restriction to one invention. The other invention(s) can be pursued in a divisional application, retaining the benefit of the original filing date.
• Continuation-in-Part (CIP) Applications: A CIP application includes subject matter from an earlier-filed application and also introduces new matter not disclosed in the earlier application.

The Google Patents entry for US11650968B2 lists "US20200372342A1" as another version. This typically indicates a published patent application. To definitively determine if US20200372342A1 is a continuation, divisional, or related application, one would need to review the application's file wrapper in USPTO Patent Center or Public Search. Based on the information provided, it is a related family member, likely the published application that led to the granted patent.

Related Family Members

The patent family for US11650968B2, as provided by Google Patents, includes:

• US16/707,265 (Application number)
• US201916707265A (another format of the application number)
• US20200372342A1 (Publication number of the application)

The relationship between these is that US16/707,265 is the application number, US20200372342A1 is the publication of that application, and US11650968B2 is the granted patent resulting from that application.

Projected Expiration Date

The "Adjusted expiration" date provided on Google Patents for US11650968B2 is 2041-10-22. This date already incorporates any Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) applied to the patent. Given that the patent is not related to a product subject to regulatory approval, Patent Term Extension (PTE) is not applicable. Therefore, the projected expiration date is 2041-10-22.