Also listed on Sandvik Materials Technology Deutschland GmbH, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Sep 1, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 22, 2034
Held by Ipco Germany GmbH
Filed May 12, 2016 as application 15/036,284 · Granted Jun 4, 2019
Base term plus 314 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Oct 22, 2014
Oct 22, 2014
Term ends
Sep 1, 2035
Sep 1, 2035
Granted
Jun 4, 2019
Jun 4, 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
314
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 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.
2
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 314 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Oct 22, 2014, when application PCT/EP2014/072593, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 12, 2016) | Oct 22, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +314 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 1, 2035 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 1, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,309,724 | this patent Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
1 of 2 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 11, 2016 Reel 39987, frame 492 | Schromm, Hans-kurt; Kleinhans, Matthias | Sandvik Materials Technology Deutschland GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 16, 2019 Reel 48891, frame 676 | Sandvik Materials Technology Deutschland GmbH | Sandvik SPS GmbH | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Apr 16, 2019 Reel 48892, frame 944 | Gottlöber, Manfred | Sandvik SPS GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 19, 2019 Reel 48949, frame 203 | Sandvik SPS GmbH | Ipco Germany GmbH | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2035
Term ends Sep 1, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 314 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below 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
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.