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Term ends Dec 4, 2038 · High confidence

Filed Jan 4, 2021 as application 17/140,329 · Granted Nov 8, 2022
Base term plus 49 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2018 2038
Clock starts
Oct 16, 2018
Term ends
Dec 4, 2038
Granted
Nov 8, 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
49
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 10,887,507, to Dec 4, 2038. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
4
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 49 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 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 16, 2018, when application 16/161,597, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 4, 2021)Oct 16, 2038High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+49 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 4, 2038High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,887,507)resolves to Dec 4, 2038, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 4, 2038High confidence

This family

US 10,887,507In force
Feb 2039
Feb 2039
Application PCT/US2018/058094PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,496,669this patent
Dec 2038
Dec 2038
Application 17/887,583Abandoned
not computed
not computed
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jan 4, 2021
Reel 54798, frame 186
Beach, AllisonObjectvideo Labs, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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