Term ended Jan 30, 2024 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 30, 2024
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Filed Mar 7, 2018 as application 15/914,797 · Granted Jan 29, 2019
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Jan 30, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Jan 30, 2004
Jan 30, 2004
Term ended
Jan 30, 2024
Jan 30, 2024
Granted
Jan 29, 2019
Jan 29, 2019
base term
after the term ends
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 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
11
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. 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 30, 2004, when application 10/769,484, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 7, 2018); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 30, 2024 | 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 | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 30, 2024 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,542,219 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
| US 7,729,515 | In force no later than Mar 2029 | no later than Mar 2029 |
| US 7,826,641 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 7,961,909 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 8,553,935 | Term ended Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 10,191,559 | this patent Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| Application 16/653,084 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 18/198,223 | Pending not computed | not computed |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 2018 Reel 45335, frame 794 | Mandella, Michael J.; Gonzalez-banos, Hector H.; Alboszta, Marek | Electronic Scripting Products, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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