Term ends Jun 16, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 30, 2034
Held by Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Filed Aug 14, 2014 as application 14/460,314 · Granted Jan 21, 2020
Base term plus 1447 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2038
Clock starts
Jun 30, 2014
Jun 30, 2014
Term ends
Jun 16, 2038
Jun 16, 2038
Granted
Jan 21, 2020
Jan 21, 2020
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
1,447
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.
23
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 1447 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 Jun 30, 2014, when application 14/319,902, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 14, 2014) | Jun 30, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1447 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 16, 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 16, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,102,480 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US 9,886,670 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 10,540,606 | this patent Jun 2038 | Jun 2038 |
| US 11,100,420 | In force Nov 2036 | Nov 2036 |
| US 10,339,465 | In force Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
| US 10,318,882 | In force Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
| US 9,672,474 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 10,169,715 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 2014 Reel 34508, frame 711 | Dirac, Leo Parker; Li, Jin; Zheng, Tianming; Zhuo, Donghui | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jun 2038
Term ends Jun 16, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1447 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
85
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2020 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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