Lapsed Oct 23, 2026 on the fee record · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 10, 2034
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.
Filed Sep 24, 2015 as application 14/864,020 · Granted Oct 23, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Oct 23, 2026
2014
2034
Clock starts
Jun 10, 2014
Jun 10, 2014
No longer in force
Oct 23, 2026
Oct 23, 2026
Granted
Oct 23, 2018
Oct 23, 2018
Term would have run to
Jun 10, 2034
Jun 10, 2034
base term
after the term ends
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.
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.
8
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 Jun 10, 2034: 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 Jun 10, 2014, when application 14/300,884, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 24, 2015) | Jun 10, 2034 | 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 | No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case" | lapsed Oct 23, 2026 | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 23, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 10,038,063 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 10,109,716 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 10,090,391 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 10,629,692 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
| US 10,680,074 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 10,770,557 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 10,804,364 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 10,790,369 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
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 24, 2015 Reel 36650, frame 142 | Jain, Vibhor; Liu, Qizhi; Pekarik, John J. | International Business Machines Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is above 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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