Term ends Dec 7, 2036 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 3, 2036
Grace period ended Oct 30, 2026 · no payment on record as of the Nov 10, 2026 fee file · lapse expected
Held by Facense Ltd.
Filed Oct 3, 2016 as application 15/284,528 · Granted Oct 30, 2018
Base term plus 65 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2036
Clock starts
Oct 3, 2016
Oct 3, 2016
Term ends
Dec 7, 2036
Dec 7, 2036
Granted
Oct 30, 2018
Oct 30, 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
65
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 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.
35
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 65 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Low: the grace period for its second maintenance fee ended Oct 30, 2026 with no payment on record. 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 3, 2016, when this application, 15/284,528, was filed | Oct 3, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +65 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 7, 2036 | 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"; the grace period ended with no payment on record in the fee file | grace period ended Oct 30, 2026 | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 7, 2036 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 10,165,949 | In force Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| US 9,867,546 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| Application 15/231,276 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,113,913 | this patent Dec 2036 | Dec 2036 |
| US 10,136,856 | In force Jun 2037 | Jun 2037 |
| US 10,523,852 | In force Dec 2036 | Dec 2036 |
| US 10,151,636 | In force Jun 2036 | Jun 2036 |
| US 10,045,726 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
8 of 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 2017 Reel 41017, frame 388 | Tzvieli, Arie; Frank, Ari M.; Thieberger, Gil | Facense Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 30
Grace period ended Oct 30, 2026 with no payment on record. The term ends early once USPTO posts the lapse
Dec 2036
Term ends Dec 7, 2036.
Note
The 65 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
48
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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