Term ends May 24, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 24, 2033
Held by Versum Materials US, LLC
Filed May 10, 2018 as application 15/976,028 · Granted May 7, 2019
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013
Term ends
May 24, 2033
May 24, 2033
Granted
May 7, 2019
May 7, 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
6
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. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are 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 May 24, 2013, when application 13/902,300, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 10, 2018) | May 24, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 24, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,337,018 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 9,627,193 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| US 9,613,799 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| US 9,997,350 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| US 10,077,364 | In force Jun 2033 | Jun 2033 |
| US 10,283,350 | this patent May 2033 | May 2033 |
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 29, 2018 Reel 46236, frame 472 | Xiao, Manchao; Lei, Xinjian; Spence, Daniel P.; Chandra, Haripin; Han, Bing; O'neill, Mark Leonard; Mayorga, Steven Gerard; Mallikarjunan, Anupama | Versum Materials US, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2033
Term ends May 24, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
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
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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.