Term ends Nov 13, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 9, 2031
Held by Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG
Filed Oct 26, 2017 as application 15/794,279 · Granted Jul 27, 2021
Base term plus 370 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2032
Clock starts
Nov 9, 2011
Nov 9, 2011
Term ends
Nov 13, 2032
Nov 13, 2032
Granted
Jul 27, 2021
Jul 27, 2021
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
370
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 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.
4
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 370 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Nov 9, 2011, when application 13/292,168, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 26, 2017) | Nov 9, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +370 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 13, 2032 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 13, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 13/292,168 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,073,416 | this patent Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| US 12,716,758 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| Application 19/739,140 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2017 Reel 43957, frame 212 | Drahm, Wolfgang; Zhu, Hao; Rieder, Alfred; Wiesmann, Michael; Oudoire, Patrick | Endress + Hauser Flowtec AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2032
Term ends Nov 13, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 370 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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.