Term ends Jan 29, 2030 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 29, 2030
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Applied Underwriters, Inc.
Filed Aug 15, 2019 as application 16/541,257 · Granted Nov 16, 2021
Base term plus 202 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
Jan 29, 2010
Jan 29, 2010
Term ends
Jan 29, 2030
Jan 29, 2030
Granted
Nov 16, 2021
Nov 16, 2021
base term
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
202
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 10,432,014.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. 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 runs 202 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jan 29, 2010, when application 12/696,256, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 15, 2019); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 29, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +202 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 19, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,432,014) | capped to Jan 29, 2030 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 29, 2030 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,908,157 | In force Jan 2030 | Jan 2030 |
| US 10,164,462 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 10,418,846 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 10,432,014 | In force Jan 2030 | Jan 2030 |
| US 11,177,685 | this patent Jan 2030 | Jan 2030 |
| US 12,261,476 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| Application 19/067,840 | Pending not computed | not computed |
7 of 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 2019 Reel 50207, frame 255 | Smith, Justin N.; Nowotarski, Mark S. | Applied Underwriters, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 10, 2019 Reel 50705, frame 866 | Applied Underwriters, Inc. | Mufg Union Bank, N.a. | Patent Security Agreement |
| May 4, 2020 Reel 52566, frame 974 | Mufg Union Bank, N.a. | Applied Underwriters, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
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What's changing
Jan 2030
Term ends Jan 29, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 202 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 10,432,014.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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