Term ends Aug 22, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 22, 2034
Held by Sensay Technologies LLC
Filed Apr 27, 2016 as application 15/139,718 · Granted May 14, 2019
Base term plus 45 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Aug 22, 2014
Aug 22, 2014
Term ends
Aug 22, 2034
Aug 22, 2034
Granted
May 14, 2019
May 14, 2019
base term
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
45
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,599,691.
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.
18
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 45 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 3 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 Aug 22, 2014, when application 14/466,676, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 27, 2016) | Aug 22, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +45 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 6, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,599,691) | capped to Aug 22, 2034 | 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 | Aug 22, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,698,930 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 10,614,473 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| Application 14/701,883 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,771,936 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US 10,599,691 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 10,289,742 | this patent Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 10,824,440 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 11,741,497 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
8 of 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2016 Reel 38394, frame 405 | Naqvi, Shamim A. | Sensoriant, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 21, 2021 Reel 55997, frame 672 | Sensoriant, Inc. | Forth Ventures LLC | Security Agreement |
| Sep 17, 2021 Reel 57692, frame 302 | Forth Ventures LLC | Sensoriant, Inc. | Termination of Security Agreement @ Reel 055997 and Frame 0672 |
| Aug 6, 2026 Reel 75547, frame 863 | Sensoriant, Inc. | Sensay Technologies LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Aug 2034
Term ends Aug 22, 2034.
Note
The 45 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,599,691.
Citations
11
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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