Term ended Sep 27, 2025 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 27, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Evalve, Inc.
Filed Feb 19, 2019 as application 16/279,523 · Granted Nov 1, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Sep 27, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Sep 27, 2005
Sep 27, 2005
Term ended
Sep 27, 2025
Sep 27, 2025
Granted
Nov 1, 2022
Nov 1, 2022
base term
after the term ends
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
7
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Sep 27, 2005, when application 11/237,213, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 19, 2019); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Sep 27, 2025 | 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 | None on file | no change | 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 | No maintenance fee can end the term early | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 27, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,635,329 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| Application 14/070,936 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,484,331 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 11,304,715 | Term ended Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 12,121,231 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
5 of 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 2019 Reel 51089, frame 192 | Goldfarb, Eric A.; Thornton, Troy L.; Raschdorf, Alfred H.; Sarabia, Jaime E.; Madden, John P.; Powell, Ferolyn T.; Martin, Brian B.; Fan, Sylvia Wen-chin; Komtebedde, Jan; Liao, Yen C. | Evalve, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Citations
8
later US patents cite this one
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