Term ends Feb 3, 2029 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 16, 2027
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by KHS GmbH
Filed Apr 7, 2015 as application 14/680,229 · Granted Feb 19, 2019
Base term plus 537 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2029
Clock starts
Aug 16, 2007
Aug 16, 2007
Term ends
Feb 3, 2029
Feb 3, 2029
Granted
Feb 19, 2019
Feb 19, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
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
537
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 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.
3
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 537 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 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 Aug 16, 2007, when application PCT/EP2007/007206, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 7, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Aug 16, 2027 | 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 | +537 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 3, 2029 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 3, 2029 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 12/372,947 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,207,835 | this patent Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
2 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2015 Reel 35865, frame 187 | Wilhelm, Lothar; Hillmann, Heinz | KHS GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2029
Term ends Feb 3, 2029.
Note
The 537 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
7
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
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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