Term ends May 20, 2036 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 20, 2032
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Kardium Inc.
Filed Oct 21, 2016 as application 15/299,640 · Granted Aug 2, 2022
Base term plus 1582 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2036
Clock starts
Jan 20, 2012
Jan 20, 2012
Term ends
May 20, 2036
May 20, 2036
Granted
Aug 2, 2022
Aug 2, 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
1,582
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.
28
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 1582 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 20, 2012, when application PCT/US2012/022061, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 21, 2016); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 20, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1582 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 20, 2036 | 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 | May 20, 2036 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2012/022061 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2012/022062 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,492,228 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| US 9,526,573 | In force Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
| US 9,492,227 | In force Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
| US 9,480,525 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| US 9,486,273 | In force Feb 2033 | Feb 2033 |
| US 9,675,401 | In force Jun 2034 | Jun 2034 |
8 of 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 21, 2016 Reel 40083, frame 847 | Lopes, Fernando; Moisa, Saar; Jaramillo, Jorge; Goertzen, Douglas; Hawes, Peter; Sardari, Ashkan; Salvestro, Aldo Antonio | Kardium Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2036
Term ends May 20, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1582 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
59
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
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.