Term ends Jan 3, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 3, 2031
Held by Honeycomb Battery Company
Filed Mar 5, 2018 as application 15/911,758 · Granted Sep 8, 2020
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Jan 3, 2011
Jan 3, 2011
Term ends
Jan 3, 2031
Jan 3, 2031
Granted
Sep 8, 2020
Sep 8, 2020
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
8
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 1 of 2 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 Jan 3, 2011, when application 12/930,294, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 5, 2018) | Jan 3, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 3, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,166,252 | In force no later than Oct 2031 | no later than Oct 2031 |
| US 8,859,143 | In force Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
| US 8,889,298 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| Application PCT/US2011/064827 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,326,168 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| US 11,038,205 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 10,770,755 | this patent Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 11,189,859 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2018 Reel 45359, frame 537 | Zhamu, Aruna; Jang, Bor Z | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 17, 2019 Reel 49784, frame 650 | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. | Global Graphene Group, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 28, 2024 Reel 66957, frame 745 | Global Graphene Group, Inc. | Honeycomb Battery Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2031
Term ends Jan 3, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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