Also listed on Brain Corporation, an earlier holder on the record.
Term ends Jan 27, 2036 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 22, 2036
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Brain Trust Innovations I, LLC
Filed May 10, 2018 as application 15/976,832 · Granted Jan 22, 2019
Base term plus 5 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2036
Clock starts
Jan 22, 2016
Jan 22, 2016
Term ends
Jan 27, 2036
Jan 27, 2036
Granted
Jan 22, 2019
Jan 22, 2019
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
5
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.
23
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 5 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jan 22, 2016, when application 15/004,535, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 10, 2018); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 22, 2036 | 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 | +5 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 27, 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 27, 2036 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,569,589 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US 9,679,108 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US 9,848,827 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US 9,928,342 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US 10,026,506 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US 10,076,284 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US 10,186,329 | this patent Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US 10,172,565 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
8 of 23 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2036
Term ends Jan 27, 2036.
Note
The 5 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2019 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.