Term ends Oct 8, 2034 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends May 16, 2034
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by The Boeing Company
Filed Feb 5, 2019 as application 16/268,159 · Granted Jun 22, 2021
Base term plus 145 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014
Term ends
Oct 8, 2034
Oct 8, 2034
Granted
Jun 22, 2021
Jun 22, 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
145
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.
10
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 145 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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 May 16, 2014, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Feb 5, 2019); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | May 16, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +145 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 8, 2034 | 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 | Oct 8, 2034 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,042,353 | In force Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
| US 9,834,323 | In force Feb 2036 | Feb 2036 |
| US 9,379,808 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| Application 15/193,766 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/809,176 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,239,641 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| Application 16/037,405 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,044,011 | this patent Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2019 Reel 48243, frame 386 | Georgeson, Gary E.; Troy, James J.; Lea, Scott W.; Fetzer, Barry A. | The Boeing Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2034
Term ends Oct 8, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 145 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
11
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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.