Term ends Jun 21, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 3, 2040
Held by Dish Wireless LLC
Filed Jun 3, 2020 as application 16/891,991 · Granted Mar 1, 2022
Base term plus 18 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Jun 3, 2020
Jun 3, 2020
Term ends
Jun 21, 2040
Jun 21, 2040
Granted
Mar 1, 2022
Mar 1, 2022
base term
patent term adjustment
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
18
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 18 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 Jun 3, 2020, when this application, 16/891,991, was filed | Jun 3, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +18 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 21, 2040 | 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 | Jun 21, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,265,135 | this patent Jun 2040 | Jun 2040 |
| US 11,202,234 | In force Jun 2040 | Jun 2040 |
| Application PCT/US2021/035616 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,638,178 | In force Jun 2040 | Jun 2040 |
| US 11,689,341 | In force Jun 2040 | Jun 2040 |
| US 12,267,728 | In force Jun 2040 | Jun 2040 |
| US 12,170,633 | In force no later than Jun 2040 | no later than Jun 2040 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2020 Reel 52829, frame 897 | Mehta, Dhaval; Bassirat, Farhad; Chenumolu, Siddhartha; Pathania, Amit | Dish Wireless LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2040
Term ends Jun 21, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 18 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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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
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