Term ends Aug 21, 2027 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Lumus Ltd.

Filed Oct 10, 2016 as application 15/289,712 · Granted Apr 16, 2019

Base term plus 288 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Aug 21, 2027

2006 2027

Clock starts
Nov 6, 2006

Term ends
Aug 21, 2027

Granted
Apr 16, 2019

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

288

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.

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 288 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: High. 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 Nov 6, 2006, when application PCT/IL2006/001278, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 10, 2016)	Nov 6, 2026	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+288 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Aug 21, 2027	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	Aug 21, 2027	High confidence

This family

US 9,551,880	In force Aug 2030	Aug 2030
US 10,261,321	this patent Aug 2027	Aug 2027
US 10,048,499	Term ended Nov 2026	Nov 2026
US 10,598,937	Term ended Nov 2026	Nov 2026
US 11,187,905	In force Mar 2027	Mar 2027
US 11,719,938	In force Feb 2027	Feb 2027
Application 18/205,544	Abandoned not computed	not computed

7 of 8 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 10, 2016 Reel 39979, frame 300	Amitai, Yaakov	Lumus Ltd.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

What's changing

Aug 2027

Term ends Aug 21, 2027.

Note

The 288 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

154

later US patents cite this one

That is top 1% 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.

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