Term ends Jul 6, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 22, 2034
Held by Sensable Technologies LLC
Filed Dec 23, 2019 as application 16/725,720 · Granted Oct 11, 2022
Base term plus 75 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014
Term ends
Jul 6, 2034
Jul 6, 2034
Granted
Oct 11, 2022
Oct 11, 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
75
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,556,035, US 9,907,876, to Jul 6, 2034. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows 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 75 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 1 of 2 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 22, 2014, when application PCT/US2014/035054, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 23, 2019) | Apr 22, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +75 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 6, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,556,035, US 9,907,876) | resolves to Jul 6, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 6, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2014/035054 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,907,876 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 10,556,035 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 11,464,883 | this patent Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| Application 17/930,052 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 12,758,670 | In force Apr 2034 | Apr 2034 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 2020 Reel 54747, frame 368 | Jin, Sungho; Gardner, Calvin | The Regents of the University of California | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 24, 2020 Reel 54747, frame 430 | Matthew, Stewart | Sensable Technologies LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 24, 2020 Reel 54747, frame 525 | Sensable Technologies LLC | Sensable Technologies LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2034
Term ends Jul 6, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 75 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,556,035, US 9,907,876, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.