Term ends Jul 19, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 10, 2036
Held by Nintendo Co., Ltd.
Filed Jun 10, 2016 as application 15/179,022 · Granted Mar 10, 2020
Base term plus 769 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2038
Clock starts
Jun 10, 2016
Jun 10, 2016
Term ends
Jul 19, 2038
Jul 19, 2038
Granted
Mar 10, 2020
Mar 10, 2020
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
769
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.
9
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 769 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 10, 2016, when this application, 15/179,022, was filed | Jun 10, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +769 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 19, 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 | Jul 19, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,583,356 | this patent Jul 2038 | Jul 2038 |
| US 10,543,423 | In force Jun 2036 | Jun 2036 |
| US 10,010,789 | In force Jun 2036 | Jun 2036 |
| US 10,118,093 | In force Jun 2036 | Jun 2036 |
| US 11,110,344 | In force Jun 2036 | Jun 2036 |
| Application 16/735,838 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 17/369,672 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,951,386 | In force Jun 2036 | Jun 2036 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2016 Reel 38878, frame 372 | Koizumi, Yoshiaki; Ehara, Yui; Nishikawa, Munetaka; Kawai, Kochi; Mae, Kenichi | Nintendo Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jul 2038
Term ends Jul 19, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 769 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
67
later US patents cite this one
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