Term ends Feb 23, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 23, 2036
Held by Empower Semiconductor
Filed Feb 23, 2016 as application 15/051,661 · Granted Aug 20, 2019
Base term plus 216 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2016
2036
Clock starts
Feb 23, 2016
Feb 23, 2016
Term ends
Feb 23, 2036
Feb 23, 2036
Granted
Aug 20, 2019
Aug 20, 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
216
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 9,843,258.
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.
7
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 216 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 Feb 23, 2016, when this application, 15/051,661, was filed | Feb 23, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +216 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 26, 2036 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,843,258) | capped to Feb 23, 2036 | 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 | Feb 23, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,389,240 | this patent Feb 2036 | Feb 2036 |
| US 9,843,258 | In force Feb 2036 | Feb 2036 |
| US 11,159,086 | In force Feb 2036 | Feb 2036 |
| US 11,664,730 | In force Feb 2036 | Feb 2036 |
| US 11,962,242 | In force no later than Feb 2036 | no later than Feb 2036 |
| US 12,283,889 | In force Feb 2036 | Feb 2036 |
| Application 19/169,969 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 2016 Reel 37805, frame 287 | Phillips, Timothy A | Empower Semiconductor | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Feb 2036
Term ends Feb 23, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 216 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 9,843,258.
Citations
18
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
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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