Term ends Jun 28, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 4, 2038
Held by ResMed Inc.
Filed May 4, 2018 as application 15/971,297 · Granted Dec 31, 2019
Base term plus 55 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2018
2038
Clock starts
May 4, 2018
May 4, 2018
Term ends
Jun 28, 2038
Jun 28, 2038
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
55
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.
25
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 55 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 May 4, 2018, when this application, 15/971,297, was filed | May 4, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +55 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 28, 2038 | 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 | Jun 28, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,448,423 | In force Mar 2038 | Mar 2038 |
| US 10,873,911 | In force Mar 2038 | Mar 2038 |
| US 10,841,830 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 11,019,652 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 10,524,294 | this patent Jun 2038 | Jun 2038 |
| US 10,784,944 | In force Dec 2038 | Dec 2038 |
| US 10,827,508 | In force Apr 2039 | Apr 2039 |
| US 11,277,302 | In force Jun 2039 | Jun 2039 |
8 of 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2019 Reel 49895, frame 465 | Babaei, Alireza; Dinan, Esmael Hejazi; Park, Kyungmin; Jeon, Hyoungsuk | Ofinno, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 15, 2022 Reel 59111, frame 846 | Ofinno, LLC | ResMed Inc. | Patent Purchase Agreement and Assignment (Exhibit B) |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2038
Term ends Jun 28, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 55 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
46
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% 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.