Term ends Oct 21, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 21, 2036
Held by Bissel Inc.
Filed Oct 21, 2016 as application 15/331,041 · Granted Oct 9, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2016
2036
Clock starts
Oct 21, 2016
Oct 21, 2016
Term ends
Oct 21, 2036
Oct 21, 2036
Granted
Oct 9, 2018
Oct 9, 2018
base term
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 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.
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.
19
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 Oct 21, 2016, when this application, 15/331,041, was filed | Oct 21, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 21, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,092,155 | this patent Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
| US 10,631,702 | In force Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
| US 10,820,769 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US D908,994 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US D908,995 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US 10,925,455 | In force Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
| US 11,096,539 | In force Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
| US 11,089,933 | In force Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
8 of 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2016 Reel 40087, frame 835 | Xia, Jincheng; Ge, Jianjun; Yin, Zhenjiang; Chen, Xin; Liang, Yongsheng; Ma, Kam Hoi; Chu, Lawrence Chun-hei; Ding, Junfeng; Smith, Scott R.; Wu, Hui | Bissell Homecare, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 7, 2020 Reel 51491, frame 52 | Bissel Homecare, Inc. | Bissel Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 23, 2020 Reel 52148, frame 167 | Bissell Homecare, Inc. | Bissell Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Spelling of the Conveying Party Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 051491 Frame: 0052. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
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.
What's changing
Oct 2036
Term ends Oct 21, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
140
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.