Term ends Oct 9, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 9, 2033
Held by KC Holdings I
Filed May 14, 2018 as application 15/978,625 · Granted Aug 31, 2021
Base term plus 70 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013
Term ends
Oct 9, 2033
Oct 9, 2033
Granted
Aug 31, 2021
Aug 31, 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
70
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 9,997,082.
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.
21
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 70 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Oct 9, 2013, when application 14/049,981, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 14, 2018) | Oct 9, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +70 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 18, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,997,082) | capped to Oct 9, 2033 | 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 9, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,198,622 | In force Dec 2033 | Dec 2033 |
| US 9,501,942 | In force Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
| US 9,652,992 | In force Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
| US 9,883,838 | In force Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
| US 9,997,082 | In force Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
| US 11,051,767 | In force Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
| US 11,107,579 | this patent Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
| US 11,490,864 | In force Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
8 of 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2018 Reel 45795, frame 874 | Kaleal, Robert Louis, III | KC Holdings I | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Oct 2033
Term ends Oct 9, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 70 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 9,997,082.
Citations
9
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.