Extensions

Patent Term Adjustments (PTA) and Extensions (PTE) for US11998262

Based on the available information, the patent 11998262 has an anticipated expiration date of April 8, 2041. The patent's filing date is January 12, 2024, and its priority date is April 9, 2020. This indicates a patent term of longer than 20 years from the earliest priority date (April 9, 2020), which implies that Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) has been granted.

Patent Term Adjustment (PTA):
PTA is granted to compensate an applicant for delays caused by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) during the prosecution of a patent application. These delays can include, but are not limited to:

• Failure to issue a first Official Action or notice of allowance within 14 months of filing.
• Failure to issue an action within four months of an applicant's response to an Official Action.
• Failure to issue the patent within four months of payment of the issue fee.
• Failure to issue a patent within three years of the actual filing date of the application.

While the exact calculation of PTA for US11998262 is not explicitly detailed in the provided snippets, the difference between the 20-year term from the priority date (April 9, 2040) and the anticipated expiration date (April 8, 2041) suggests approximately one year of PTA. This adjustment compensates for USPTO delays during the application's prosecution.

Patent Term Extension (PTE):
PTE is awarded to compensate for delays incurred in obtaining regulatory approval for certain patented products, such as human drugs, food or color additives, medical devices, animal drugs, and veterinary biological products. There is no information in the provided snippets to indicate that US11998262 has been granted a Patent Term Extension.

Continuation, Divisional, and Related Family Members

The patent states a priority date of April 9, 2020, and a filing date of January 12, 2024. It also lists several other priority applications:

• US18/411,476 (Priority to 2024-01-12)
• US18/647,929 (Priority to 2024-04-26)
• US18/647,807 (Priority to 2024-04-26)
• US18/647,846 (Priority to 2024-04-26)
• US18/647,755 (Priority to 2024-04-26)
• US18/647,879 (Priority to 2024-04-26)

The presence of multiple priority claims, particularly to applications with filing dates close to the patent's own filing date (January 12, 2024) and subsequently, suggests that US11998262 is part of a patent family. These could represent continuation or divisional applications.

• Continuation Applications: A continuation application is based on an original parent application, shares the same priority date and specification, and does not add new subject matter. They are often filed to pursue additional claims disclosed but not allowed in the parent application.
• Divisional Applications: A divisional application is filed when a parent application contains more than one distinct invention, often resulting from a restriction requirement by the examiner. It shares the same specification and priority date as the parent but pursues claims to non-elected inventions.

Given the patent's filing date of January 12, 2024, and the later priority claims in April 2024, it is highly probable that US11998262 is a continuation of an earlier application, likely related to the applications filed on April 9, 2020. The subsequent priority claims listed (US18/647,929, US18/647,807, etc., all dated 2024-04-26) would then represent further continuation or divisional applications from the same family.

Related Family Members:
The Google Patents page explicitly lists "Other versions" including US20240189019A1. This is a patent application publication, which is a related family member. The multiple priority claims also indicate a family of related applications.

Projected Expiration Date

The anticipated expiration date for US11998262 is April 8, 2041. This date is derived from the earliest priority date (April 9, 2020) plus 20 years, with an apparent addition of Patent Term Adjustment. Utility patents filed on or after June 8, 1995, generally expire 20 years from their earliest effective filing date, subject to any PTA or PTE.