Term ends Jan 6, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 6, 2040
Held by Bissell Inc.
Filed Jan 6, 2020 as application 16/734,708 · Granted Apr 19, 2022
Base term plus 89 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Jan 6, 2020
Jan 6, 2020
Term ends
Jan 6, 2040
Jan 6, 2040
Granted
Apr 19, 2022
Apr 19, 2022
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
89
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 11,076,735.
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.
10
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 89 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 6, 2020, when this application, 16/734,708, was filed | Jan 6, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +89 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 4, 2040 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,076,735) | capped to Jan 6, 2040 | 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 | Jan 6, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,304,581 | this patent Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| US 11,076,735 | In force Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| US 11,013,389 | In force Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| US 11,071,428 | In force Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| US 11,737,629 | In force Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| Application 17/359,811 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,786,097 | In force Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| US 12,193,622 | In force Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 2020 Reel 51423, frame 18 | Resch, Jacob; Boles, Jacob S. | Bissell Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jan 2040
Term ends Jan 6, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 89 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 11,076,735.
Citations
28
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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