Extensions

For US patent 8554671, the following details regarding its term and related applications have been identified:

Projected Expiration Date:
The patent US8554671B2 is listed as "Active, expires 2031-08-01" on Google Patents. [cite: Original Assignee]

Patent Term Adjustment (PTA):
The standard term for a U.S. patent is 20 years from its earliest filing date. For US8554671, the filing date is July 18, 2011. A 20-year term from this date would result in an expiration date of July 18, 2031. The stated expiration date of August 1, 2031, indicates an adjustment of 14 days. This difference is indicative of Patent Term Adjustment (PTA), which is granted to compensate for certain delays by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) during the prosecution of the patent application. Without direct access to the official Issue Notification from the USPTO, the specific breakdown of the PTA calculation cannot be provided, but the adjusted expiration date confirms its application.

Patent Term Extension (PTE):
There is no indication of a Patent Term Extension (PTE) for US patent 8554671. PTEs are typically granted under specific circumstances, often for pharmaceutical patents to compensate for regulatory review periods, and generally result in longer extensions than indicated here. The observed adjustment aligns with standard PTA rather than PTE.

Continuation and Divisional Applications:
The patent US8554671 claims priority from its own application number US13/185,432, filed on 2011-07-18. Additionally, the Google Patents record lists several other U.S. patent applications that claim priority from or are related to this application, which are typically continuations, divisionals, or continuation-in-part applications:

• US13/974,837 (Priority date: 2013-08-23) [cite: Original Assignee]
• US14/034,205 (Priority date: 2013-09-23) [cite: Original Assignee]
• US14/691,499 (Priority date: 2015-04-20) [cite: Original Assignee]
• US14/691,556 (Priority date: 2015-04-20) [cite: Original Assignee]
• US15/786,470 (Priority date: 2017-10-17) [cite: Original Assignee]
• US16/882,006 (Priority date: 2020-05-22) [cite: Original Assignee]
• US17/009,551 (Priority date: 2020-09-01) [cite: Original Assignee]
• US17/189,721 (Priority date: 2021-03-02) [cite: Original Assignee]
• US17/398,789 (Priority date: 2021-08-10) [cite: Original Assignee]
• US18/746,599 (Priority date: 2024-06-18) [cite: Original Assignee]

Without access to the full prosecution history of each individual application via the USPTO Patent Center, the precise nature (continuation, divisional, or continuation-in-part) of these related applications cannot be definitively determined.

Related Family Members:
The patent family for US8554671 includes:

• U.S. Patent Application Publication: US20130024360A1 (This is the pre-grant publication for the application that issued as US8554671B2). [cite: Original Assignee]
• U.S. Applications claiming priority: The list of U.S. application numbers provided above indicates a robust family of related U.S. applications.
• Foreign and PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) Applications:
  • CA2841819A (Priority date: 2012-07-16) [cite: Original Assignee]
  • PCT/US2012/046952 (Priority date: 2012-07-16) [cite: Original Assignee]
  • JP2014521696A (Priority date: 2012-07-16) [cite: Original Assignee]
  • KR1020147003173A (Priority date: 2012-07-16) [cite: Original Assignee]
  • CN201280036005.9A (Priority date: 2012-07-16) [cite: Original Assignee]
  • EP12814662.8A (Priority date: 2012-07-16) [cite: Original Assignee]