Term ends Apr 18, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 27, 2035
Held by Domus Tower, Inc.
Filed Feb 15, 2019 as application 16/277,976 · Granted Sep 27, 2022
Base term plus 235 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2036
Clock starts
Aug 27, 2015
Aug 27, 2015
Term ends
Apr 18, 2036
Apr 18, 2036
Granted
Sep 27, 2022
Sep 27, 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
235
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.
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 235 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 Aug 27, 2015, when application 14/838,290, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 15, 2019) | Aug 27, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +235 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 18, 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 | Apr 18, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 14/838,290 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,515,409 | In force Sep 2037 | Sep 2037 |
| US 11,410,233 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| Application 16/277,984 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,455,685 | this patent Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
| Application 17/656,608 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 17/812,899 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 12,665,778 | In force Aug 2035 | Aug 2035 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 2019 Reel 48358, frame 161 | Creighton, John Everett, IV; Forster, Joseph Burke | Domus Tower, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 19, 2020 Reel 51969, frame 524 | Creighton, John Everett, IV; Forster, Joseph Burke | Domus Tower, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the First Assignor's Execution Date Previously Recorded on Reel 048358 Frame 0161. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2036
Term ends Apr 18, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 235 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
39
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.
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