Term ends Jul 23, 2035 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 20, 2034
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Newfrey LLC
Filed Oct 30, 2017 as application 15/797,636 · Granted Feb 4, 2020
Base term plus 276 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Oct 20, 2014
Oct 20, 2014
Term ends
Jul 23, 2035
Jul 23, 2035
Granted
Feb 4, 2020
Feb 4, 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
276
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.
5
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 276 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Oct 20, 2014, when application PCT/EP2014/072452, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 30, 2017); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 20, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +276 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 23, 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 | Jul 23, 2035 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,803,675 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 10,550,873 | this patent Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 10,465,730 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 11,333,187 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
4 of 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2019 Reel 49132, frame 213 | Hofmann, Steffen; Bartig, Paul; Wilhelm, Frank; Wissling, Matthias, DR. | Newfrey LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2035
Term ends Jul 23, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 276 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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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.