Lapsed Jan 4, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 4, 2028
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Jul 27, 2018 as application 16/047,628 · Granted Jan 4, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 53 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Jan 4, 2026
2008
2028
Clock starts
Jan 4, 2008
Jan 4, 2008
No longer in force
Jan 4, 2026
Jan 4, 2026
Granted
Jan 4, 2022
Jan 4, 2022
Term would have run to
Jan 4, 2028
Jan 4, 2028
base term
after the term ends
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
53
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 10,054,417, US 7,765,712, US 8,037,616, US 8,296,965, US 9,316,474.
0 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
6
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jan 4, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 53 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jan 4, 2008, when application 11/969,832, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 27, 2018) | Jan 4, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +53 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 26, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,054,417, US 7,765,712, US 8,037,616, US 8,296,965, US 9,316,474) | capped to Jan 4, 2028 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 1 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jan 4, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 4, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,765,712 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 8,037,616 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| US 8,296,965 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 9,316,474 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
| US 10,054,417 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 11,215,438 | this patent Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2019 Reel 48692, frame 981 | Stockman, Robert M. | American Radionic Company, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 28, 2021 Reel 57631, frame 929 | American Radionic Company, Inc. | Dynamic Engineering Innovations, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Dec 1, 2021 Reel 58336, frame 336 | American Radionic Company, Inc. | Dynamic Engineering Innovations, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 53 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 10,054,417, US 7,765,712, US 8,037,616, US 8,296,965, US 9,316,474.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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