Term ends Aug 5, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 21, 2036
Held by Bissell Inc.
Filed Jul 25, 2018 as application 16/045,057 · Granted Nov 3, 2020
Base term plus 288 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
Oct 21, 2016
Oct 21, 2016
Term ends
Aug 5, 2037
Aug 5, 2037
Granted
Nov 3, 2020
Nov 3, 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
288
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.
19
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 288 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 Oct 21, 2016, when application 15/331,041, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 25, 2018) | Oct 21, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +288 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 5, 2037 | 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 | Aug 5, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,092,155 | In force Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
| US 10,631,702 | In force Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
| US 10,820,769 | this patent Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US D908,994 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US D908,995 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US 10,925,455 | In force Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
| US 11,096,539 | In force Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
| US 11,089,933 | In force Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
8 of 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2018 Reel 46457, frame 920 | Xia, Jincheng; Ge, Jianjun; Yin, Zhenjiang; Chen, Xin; Liang, Yongsheng; Ma, Kam Hoi | Bissell Homecare, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 10, 2020 Reel 52136, frame 467 | Bissell Homecare, Inc. | Bissell Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 24, 2020 Reel 52210, frame 954 | Bissell Homecare, Inc. | Bissell Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Property Number Previously Recorded at Reel: 52136 Frame: 467. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2037
Term ends Aug 5, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 288 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
37
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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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.