Term ends Jul 13, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 25, 2034
Held by Boston Dynamics, Inc.
Filed Apr 24, 2019 as application 16/393,003 · Granted Dec 21, 2021
Base term plus 322 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Aug 25, 2014
Aug 25, 2014
Term ends
Jul 13, 2035
Jul 13, 2035
Granted
Dec 21, 2021
Dec 21, 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
322
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.
7
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 322 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 Aug 25, 2014, when application 14/468,146, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 24, 2019) | Aug 25, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +322 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 13, 2035 | 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 | Jul 13, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,618,937 | In force Nov 2034 | Nov 2034 |
| US 10,300,969 | In force Nov 2034 | Nov 2034 |
| US 11,203,385 | this patent Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 11,654,984 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 12,139,217 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 12,466,501 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| Application 19/356,851 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 16, 2019 Reel 49199, frame 73 | Blankespoor, Kevin; Perkins, Alex; Da Silva, Marco | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 5, 2021 Reel 57711, frame 202 | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Oct 27, 2021 Reel 57964, frame 415 | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Applications Numbers 63127573 and 11/302759 and the City of the Assignee Previously Recorded at Reel: 057111 Frame: 0202. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2035
Term ends Jul 13, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 322 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
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
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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.