Term ended no later than Mar 31, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 20, 2024
Held by Nucletron Operations B.V.
Filed Jul 10, 2017 as application 15/646,033 · Granted Oct 20, 2020
Base term plus 588 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Ended no later than Mar 31, 2026
2004
2026
Clock starts
Aug 20, 2004
Aug 20, 2004
Ended no later than
Mar 31, 2026
Mar 31, 2026
Granted
Oct 20, 2020
Oct 20, 2020
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
588
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it 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 588 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 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 Aug 20, 2004, when application 10/921,896, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 10, 2017) | Aug 20, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +588 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 31, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | no later than Mar 31, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,105,238 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| US 9,730,608 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 10,806,369 | this patent no later than Mar 2026 | no later than Mar 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2020 Reel 52338, frame 709 | Van Der Lugt, Wilco; Schuurman, Jeroen; Henning, Johan; Kwa, Stefan; Kindlein, Johann | Nucletron B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 8, 2020 Reel 52338, frame 714 | Nucletron B.V. | Nucletron Operations B.V. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 588 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Mar 31, 2026. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.