Term ended May 25, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 29, 2025
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Sep 14, 2026.
Held by PepsiCo, Inc.
Filed Oct 5, 2015 as application 14/875,004 · Granted Aug 7, 2018
Base term plus 26 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended May 25, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Apr 29, 2005
Apr 29, 2005
Term ended
May 25, 2025
May 25, 2025
Granted
Aug 7, 2018
Aug 7, 2018
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
26
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
8
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 26 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Apr 29, 2005, when application 11/118,535, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 5, 2015) | Apr 29, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +26 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 25, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Sep 14, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 25, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,828,175 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2005/017423 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,127,966 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 8,356,730 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 8,590,746 | Term ended no later than Apr 2025 | no later than Apr 2025 |
| US 8,616,412 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 9,150,401 | Term ended no later than May 2025 | no later than May 2025 |
| US 10,040,043 | this patent May 2025 | May 2025 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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Note
The 26 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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