Term ended Nov 14, 2026 · Low confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by CFPH, LLC

Filed Jul 6, 2020 as application 16/921,468 · Granted Aug 30, 2022

Base term plus 120 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Nov 14, 2026

2006 2026

Clock starts
Nov 14, 2006

Term ended
Nov 14, 2026

Granted
Aug 30, 2022

base term after the term ends 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

120

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 10,706,673.

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.

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 120 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. Confidence: Low. 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 Nov 14, 2006, when application 11/559,829, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 6, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Nov 14, 2026	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	+120 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Mar 14, 2027	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,706,673)	capped to Nov 14, 2026	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	1 of 1 maintenance fees paid	term ended	High confidence
Further caveats on record	The record names parents not resolved: 13616588, 11559829	Low confidence overall	Low confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Nov 14, 2026	Low confidence

This family

US 8,645,709	In force Aug 2028	Aug 2028
US 10,706,673	Term ended Nov 2026	Nov 2026
US 11,430,293	this patent Nov 2026	Nov 2026
Application 17/896,185	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 12,586,440	Term ended Nov 2026	Nov 2026
US 12,664,858	Term ended Nov 2026	Nov 2026

The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

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Note

The 120 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 10,706,673.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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