Extensions

Meticulous analysis of the prosecution history and family data for U.S. Patent No. 12,337,715 reveals an extensive continuation chain, no awarded Patent Term Adjustment or Extension, and a projected expiration date in 2032.

Patent Term and Expiration

• Patent Term Adjustment (PTA): There has been no Patent Term Adjustment awarded for this patent. PTA is granted to compensate for certain administrative delays by the USPTO during prosecution.
• Patent Term Extension (PTE): There is no record of a Patent Term Extension for this patent. PTE is typically granted to compensate for regulatory review delays, often for pharmaceutical products, and is not applicable here.
• Projected Expiration Date: The patent's term is calculated as 20 years from the earliest non-provisional filing date in its family, which is the filing date of U.S. Application No. 13/452,882 on April 22, 2012. Therefore, the projected expiration date is April 22, 2032.

Application History and Patent Family

U.S. Patent No. 12,337,715 is part of a large and complex family of patents and applications, linked through a long chain of continuation applications. This strategy allows an applicant to pursue claims of varying scope and subject matter based on the original disclosure.

Continuity Data:

The subject patent, issued from U.S. Application No. 18/379,043, filed on October 11, 2023, is a continuation of the following applications:

• Direct Parent: U.S. Application No. 18/125,448, filed March 23, 2023.
• Grandparent: U.S. Application No. 17/461,959, filed August 30, 2021 (now U.S. Patent No. 11,738,659).
• Great-Grandparent: U.S. Application No. 16/653,958, filed October 15, 2019 (now U.S. Patent No. 11,104,245).
• And so on: The chain continues back through several other patents, ultimately claiming priority to U.S. Application No. 13/452,882, filed on April 22, 2012.

This earliest filing date is the critical date for determining the 20-year term of the patent.

Divisional Applications:

No divisional applications were identified for U.S. Application No. 18/379,043. The prosecution history indicates a strategy of filing a continuous stream of continuation applications rather than dividing out distinct inventions from a single application.

Related Family Members:

The extensive family of this patent includes numerous issued patents and pending applications, all stemming from the same initial disclosures. Notable issued U.S. patents in this family include:

• U.S. Patent No. 11,738,659
• U.S. Patent No. 11,104,245
• U.S. Patent No. 10,442,399
• U.S. Patent No. 9,123,035
• U.S. Patent No. 9,229,905
• U.S. Patent No. 9,189,900

These patents, assigned to Emerging Automotive LLC, cover various aspects of vehicle e-keys, user profiles, and cloud-based management systems. There is no indication of any related foreign or international (PCT) applications in the publicly available data.