Also listed on Miasole, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Aug 11, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 1, 2036
Filed Jun 8, 2018 as application 16/060,607 · Granted Jan 5, 2021
Base term plus 253 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
Dec 1, 2016
Dec 1, 2016
Term ends
Aug 11, 2037
Aug 11, 2037
Granted
Jan 5, 2021
Jan 5, 2021
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
253
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.
2
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 253 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 Dec 1, 2016, when application PCT/EP2016/079475, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 8, 2018) | Dec 1, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +253 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 11, 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 11, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,883,329 | this patent Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
1 of 2 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 13, 2018 Reel 46078, frame 160 | Tondel, Stian; Bomann, Kent-andre; Skjold, Michael | Interwell P&A As | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 11, 2018 Reel 46317, frame 566 | Bu, Mingli | Miasole Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Aug 2037
Term ends Aug 11, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 253 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
8
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2021 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
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