Term ends Feb 19, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 31, 2033
Held by McKesson Corporation
Filed Apr 25, 2016 as application 15/137,371 · Granted Sep 17, 2019
Base term plus 415 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2035
Clock starts
Dec 31, 2013
Dec 31, 2013
Term ends
Feb 19, 2035
Feb 19, 2035
Granted
Sep 17, 2019
Sep 17, 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
415
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.
3
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 415 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 Dec 31, 2013, when application 14/145,027, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 25, 2016) | Dec 31, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +415 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 19, 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 | Feb 19, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 14/145,027 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,417,380 | this patent Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 11,393,580 | In force Dec 2033 | Dec 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2016 Reel 38371, frame 369 | McKesson Corporation | McKesson Financial Holdings | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 25, 2016 Reel 38371, frame 152 | Kaye, Elizabeth S.; Hopkins, Stacy; Pinsonneault, Roger G. | McKesson Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 31, 2016 Reel 39887, frame 935 | McKesson Corporation | McKesson Financial Holdings | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 11, 2017 Reel 41329, frame 879 | McKesson Financial Holdings | McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company | Change of Name |
| Jan 12, 2017 Reel 41355, frame 408 | McKesson Financial Holdings Unlimited Company | McKesson Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2035
Term ends Feb 19, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 415 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
28
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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