Term ends Feb 12, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 12, 2038
Held by Glydways, Inc.
Filed Mar 12, 2020 as application 16/817,455 · Granted Aug 10, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2018
2038
Clock starts
Feb 12, 2018
Feb 12, 2018
Term ends
Feb 12, 2038
Feb 12, 2038
Granted
Aug 10, 2021
Aug 10, 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
8
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 Feb 12, 2018, when application 15/894,783, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 12, 2020) | Feb 12, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | Feb 12, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,613,550 | In force Mar 2038 | Mar 2038 |
| US 10,611,389 | In force Mar 2038 | Mar 2038 |
| US 10,618,537 | In force Feb 2038 | Feb 2038 |
| Application PCT/US2019/017527 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,427,237 | In force no later than Apr 2038 | no later than Apr 2038 |
| US 11,084,512 | this patent Feb 2038 | Feb 2038 |
| US 11,958,516 | In force Feb 2038 | Feb 2038 |
| Application 18/617,388 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2021 Reel 57018, frame 613 | Khosla, Vinod | Glydways, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2038
Term ends Feb 12, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below 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.