Term ends May 28, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 24, 2037
Held by Bell Textron Inc.
Filed Jan 24, 2017 as application 15/414,181 · Granted Oct 13, 2020
Base term plus 489 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2038
Clock starts
Jan 24, 2017
Jan 24, 2017
Term ends
May 28, 2038
May 28, 2038
Granted
Oct 13, 2020
Oct 13, 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
489
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.
3
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 489 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 Jan 24, 2017, when this application, 15/414,181, was filed | Jan 24, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +489 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 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 | May 28, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,800,129 | this patent May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 11,787,148 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| Application 18/464,414 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 2017 Reel 41066, frame 821 | Mishra, Suvankar; Chris, Robert Mark; Ishmael, Michael D.; Turner, Ronald J. | Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 11, 2020 Reel 53757, frame 281 | Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. | Bell Textron Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2038
Term ends May 28, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 489 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
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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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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