Term ends Jan 26, 2037 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Anthony, Inc.

Filed Nov 28, 2016 as application 15/362,589 · Granted Aug 14, 2018

Base term plus 59 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Jan 26, 2037

2016 2037

Clock starts
Nov 28, 2016

Term ends
Jan 26, 2037

Granted
Aug 14, 2018

base term patent term adjustment 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

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

2 of 3

Maintenance fees paid

Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 59 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Nov 28, 2016, when this application, 15/362,589, was filed	Nov 28, 2036	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+59 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jan 26, 2037	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	2 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jan 26, 2037	High confidence

This family

US 10,045,638	this patent Jan 2037	Jan 2037
Application PCT/US2017/057512	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 10,390,632	In force Nov 2036	Nov 2036
US 10,898,011	In force Nov 2036	Nov 2036
US 11,439,253	In force Nov 2036	Nov 2036
US 11,864,670	In force Nov 2036	Nov 2036

The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Assignments

Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.

Recorded	Assignor	Assignee	Conveyance
Sep 20, 2017 Reel 43639, frame 860	Artwohl, Paul J.; Nicholson, Jeffery W.; Rolek, Matthew; Baugh, David Briggs	Anthony, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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Alerts on its grants, lapses and transfers.

What's changing

Jan 2037

Term ends Jan 26, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 59 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 10% 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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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