Term ends Feb 10, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 10, 2037
Held by Thales DIS CPL USA, Inc.
Filed Feb 17, 2020 as application 16/792,512 · Granted Sep 7, 2021
Base term plus 20 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Feb 10, 2017
Feb 10, 2017
Term ends
Feb 10, 2037
Feb 10, 2037
Granted
Sep 7, 2021
Sep 7, 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
20
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 10,594,668.
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.
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 20 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 Feb 10, 2017, when application 15/429,937, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 17, 2020) | Feb 10, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +20 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 2, 2037 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,594,668) | capped to Feb 10, 2037 | 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 10, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,579,833 | In force Dec 2036 | Dec 2036 |
| US 10,594,668 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 11,250,171 | In force Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| US 11,115,396 | this patent Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 2022 Reel 60907, frame 877 | Thales Esecurity, Inc.; Safenet, Inc.; Thales DIS CPL USA, Inc. | Thales DIS CPL USA, Inc. | Merger and Change of Name |
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What's changing
Feb 2037
Term ends Feb 10, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 20 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 10,594,668.
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.