Term ends Jun 15, 2030 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 15, 2030
Grace period ended Nov 6, 2026 · no payment on record as of the Nov 10, 2026 fee file · lapse expected
Held by Singular Computing LLC
Filed Oct 16, 2017 as application 15/784,359 · Granted Nov 6, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
Jun 15, 2010
Jun 15, 2010
Term ends
Jun 15, 2030
Jun 15, 2030
Granted
Nov 6, 2018
Nov 6, 2018
base term
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
15
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. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Low: the grace period for its second maintenance fee ended Nov 6, 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 Jun 15, 2010, when application 12/816,201, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 16, 2017); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jun 15, 2030 | 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 | 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 Nov 6, 2026 | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 15, 2030 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,150,902 | In force Dec 2030 | Dec 2030 |
| US 8,407,273 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 9,218,156 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 9,792,088 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 10,120,648 | this patent Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 10,416,961 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 10,664,236 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 10,656,912 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
8 of 15 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 16, 2017 Reel 43875, frame 842 | Bates, Joseph | Singular Computing LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Nov 6
Grace period ended Nov 6, 2026 with no payment on record. The term ends early once USPTO posts the lapse
Jun 2030
Term ends Jun 15, 2030.
Citations
6
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
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