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Analysis of U.S. Patent No. 11,938,201

As of May 13, 2026, this analysis details the term, continuity, and family data for U.S. Patent No. 11,938,201.

Patent Term and Expiration

• Patent Term Adjustment (PTA): There is no record of any Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) being granted for this patent. The prosecution timeline did not trigger statutory delays by the USPTO that would warrant such an adjustment.
• Patent Term Extension (PTE): No Patent Term Extension (PTE) has been filed or granted for this patent. A PTE would typically be sought to compensate for regulatory review delays (e.g., by the FDA) and is not applicable at this time.
• Projected Expiration: The patent's term is calculated as 20 years from the filing date of the earliest non-provisional application in its family, which is the PCT application (PCT/US2018/057086) filed on October 23, 2018. Therefore, the projected expiration date for U.S. Patent No. 11,938,201 is October 23, 2038. This date does not include any adjustments or extensions.

Continuity and Related Applications

U.S. Patent No. 11,938,201 is part of a family of applications claiming priority to a provisional application filed in 2017. The continuity chain is as follows:

• Provisional Application: Claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/575,607, filed on October 23, 2017.

• PCT Application: U.S. Patent No. 11,938,201 is a national stage entry of International Application No. PCT/US2018/057086, filed on October 23, 2018, and published as WO/2019/083990.

• Parent Application: The direct parent is U.S. Application No. 16/758,182, which was the U.S. national stage entry of the PCT application, filed on April 22, 2020.

• Continuation Application: U.S. Patent No. 11,938,201 issued from Application No. 18/354,282, which was filed on July 18, 2023, as a continuation of Application No. 16/758,182.

Divisional and Other Family Members

• Divisional Applications: There are no known divisional applications filed from this patent's lineage.
• Other Related Family Members: A related U.S. Patent, No. 12,115,233, issued from application 18/585,905, which is also part of this patent family. Application 18/585,905 was filed on February 23, 2024. This indicates a continuing prosecution strategy by the applicant to pursue different sets of claims based on the original disclosure.