Lapsed Aug 14, 2026 on the fee record · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 20, 2035
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.
Filed Jun 17, 2016 as application 15/185,564 · Granted Aug 14, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Aug 14, 2026
2015
2035
Clock starts
Feb 20, 2015
Feb 20, 2015
No longer in force
Aug 14, 2026
Aug 14, 2026
Granted
Aug 14, 2018
Aug 14, 2018
Term would have run to
Feb 20, 2035
Feb 20, 2035
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
18
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Feb 20, 2035: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Low. 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 Feb 20, 2015, when application 14/627,297, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 17, 2016); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Feb 20, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | The fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case" | lapsed Aug 14, 2026 | Medium confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 14, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 10,821,157 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 10,946,079 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 10,046,056 | this patent Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 10,953,101 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 10,940,209 | In force (reinstated) Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 11,654,188 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 11,666,638 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 11,793,882 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
8 of 18 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2018 Reel 46195, frame 962 | Hubbell, Jeffrey Alan; Wilson, David Scott | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Citations
38
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.
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