Term ends Jun 17, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 10, 2034
Held by 24M Technologies, Inc.
Filed Oct 24, 2017 as application 15/792,052 · Granted Dec 31, 2019
Base term plus 99 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Mar 10, 2014
Mar 10, 2014
Term ends
Jun 17, 2034
Jun 17, 2034
Granted
Dec 31, 2019
Dec 31, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
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
99
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,437,864, to Jun 17, 2034. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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 99 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Mar 10, 2014, when application 14/202,606, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 24, 2017) | Mar 10, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +99 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 17, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,437,864) | resolves to Jun 17, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Jun 17, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,437,864 | In force Jun 2034 | Jun 2034 |
| US 9,831,522 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 10,522,870 | this patent Jun 2034 | Jun 2034 |
| US 10,964,973 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 11,394,049 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 12,095,025 | In force no later than Mar 2034 | no later than Mar 2034 |
| Application 18/773,019 | Abandoned 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 2019 Reel 50222, frame 478 | Tan, Taison; Chiang, Yet-ming; Ota, Naoki; Wilder, Throop; Duduta, Mihai | 24M Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jun 2034
Term ends Jun 17, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 99 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,437,864, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
157
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% 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.