Term ends May 16, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 16, 2032
Held by Peltbeam, Inc.
Filed Oct 6, 2018 as application 16/153,735 · Granted Mar 30, 2021
USPTO first gave this application the numbers US 10,841,053, US 10,880,056 and US 10,931,414 and withdrew each before it issued. Those numbers now lead here.
Base term plus 165 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
May 16, 2012
May 16, 2012
Term ends
May 16, 2032
May 16, 2032
Granted
Mar 30, 2021
Mar 30, 2021
base term
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
165
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,103,853.
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.
18
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 165 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 May 16, 2012, when application 13/473,144, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 6, 2018) | May 16, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +165 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 28, 2032 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,103,853) | capped to May 16, 2032 | 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 | May 16, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 13/473,144 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,103,853 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 10,965,411 | this patent May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 11,128,415 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 11,018,816 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 11,075,724 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 11,121,833 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 11,637,664 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
8 of 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 18, 2024 Reel 67151, frame 336 | Golba, LLC | Peltbeam, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2032
Term ends May 16, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 165 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,103,853.
Citations
135
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.