Term ends Apr 27, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 27, 2030
Held by ScentAir Technologies, LLC
Filed Jun 8, 2020 as application 16/895,474 · Granted Jul 12, 2022
Base term plus 19 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
Apr 27, 2010
Apr 27, 2010
Term ends
Apr 27, 2030
Apr 27, 2030
Granted
Jul 12, 2022
Jul 12, 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
19
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 10,675,595, US 8,857,735.
1 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.
This patent's term runs 19 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 1 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 Apr 27, 2010, when application 12/768,444, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 8, 2020) | Apr 27, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +19 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 16, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,675,595, US 8,857,735) | capped to Apr 27, 2030 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 27, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,857,735 | In force Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
| US 9,474,820 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| US 9,884,298 | In force no later than Apr 2030 | no later than Apr 2030 |
| US 10,675,595 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| US 11,383,209 | this patent Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| US 11,772,056 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2026 Reel 73710, frame 984 | Scentair Technologies, LLC | Glas Agency (Hong Kong) Limited | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2030
Term ends Apr 27, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 19 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 10,675,595, US 8,857,735.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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