Term ends Dec 11, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 11, 2038
Held by SK hynix Inc.
Filed Jun 8, 2020 as application 16/895,050 · Granted Nov 9, 2021
Base term plus 79 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2018
2038
Clock starts
Dec 11, 2018
Dec 11, 2018
Term ends
Dec 11, 2038
Dec 11, 2038
Granted
Nov 9, 2021
Nov 9, 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
79
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 10,714,162.
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.
14
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 79 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 Dec 11, 2018, when application 16/215,981, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 8, 2020) | Dec 11, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +79 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 28, 2039 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,714,162) | capped to Dec 11, 2038 | 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 | Dec 11, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,714,162 | In force Dec 2038 | Dec 2038 |
| US 11,062,742 | In force Nov 2039 | Nov 2039 |
| US 11,069,387 | In force Nov 2039 | Nov 2039 |
| US 11,150,838 | In force Dec 2039 | Dec 2039 |
| US 11,133,080 | In force Dec 2039 | Dec 2039 |
| US 11,170,831 | this patent Dec 2038 | Dec 2038 |
| US 11,404,097 | In force Dec 2038 | Dec 2038 |
| US 11,139,010 | In force Dec 2038 | Dec 2038 |
8 of 14 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2038
Term ends Dec 11, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 79 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 10,714,162.
Citations
2
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
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.