Term ends Oct 9, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 10, 2037
Held by Sensus Spectrum LLC
Filed Jan 10, 2017 as application 15/402,743 · Granted Mar 22, 2022
Base term plus 272 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Jan 10, 2017
Jan 10, 2017
Term ends
Oct 9, 2037
Oct 9, 2037
Granted
Mar 22, 2022
Mar 22, 2022
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
272
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.
4
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 272 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 Jan 10, 2017, when this application, 15/402,743, was filed | Jan 10, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +272 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 9, 2037 | 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 | Oct 9, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,280,696 | this patent Oct 2037 | Oct 2037 |
| US 10,663,933 | In force Nov 2037 | Nov 2037 |
| Application PCT/US2017/052135 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2017/052134 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2017 Reel 43484, frame 885 | Barker, Zachary A.; Shafiee, Michael Ehsan; Smith, Travis; Rasekh, Amin; Campbell, Bruce; Muller, Grant | Sensus Spectrum LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2037
Term ends Oct 9, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 272 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.