Also listed on Elite 48 Dental Studio, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jan 23, 2039 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 18, 2038
Held by Watson Guide IP LLC
Filed May 18, 2018 as application 15/984,309 · Granted Nov 16, 2021
Base term plus 250 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2018
2039
Clock starts
May 18, 2018
May 18, 2018
Term ends
Jan 23, 2039
Jan 23, 2039
Granted
Nov 16, 2021
Nov 16, 2021
base term
patent term adjustment
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
250
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 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.
11
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 250 days past its 20-year base term on 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 May 18, 2018, when this application, 15/984,309, was filed | May 18, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +250 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 23, 2039 | 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 | Jan 23, 2039 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,173,016 | this patent Jan 2039 | Jan 2039 |
| US 11,806,209 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 11,576,755 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 12,491,051 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 12,484,993 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 12,036,089 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| Application 18/769,971 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 12,758,365 | In force no later than May 2038 | no later than May 2038 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 2020 Reel 51968, frame 503 | Tsai, Ron | Elite 48 Dental Studio, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 17, 2021 Reel 57519, frame 893 | Watson, Jason | Watson Guide IP LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 11, 2021 Reel 58220, frame 721 | Tsai, Ron | Elite 48 Dental Studio, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove the Following Incorrectly Recorded Property Number(S) : 15984309, 16251069, US2019022294, 16391268 Previously Recorded at Reel: 051968 Frame: 0503. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Jun 17, 2022 Reel 60521, frame 211 | Watson Guide IP LLC | Roe Dental Laboratory | License |
| Apr 22, 2024 Reel 67181, frame 952 | Roe Dental Laboratory, Inc. | Guidedsmile, LLC | License |
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What's changing
Jan 2039
Term ends Jan 23, 2039. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 250 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
13
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
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