Term ends Oct 28, 2036 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Acera, LLC

Filed May 24, 2021 as application 17/328,827 · Granted Dec 13, 2022

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Oct 28, 2036

2016 2036

Clock starts
Oct 28, 2016

Term ends
Oct 28, 2036

Granted
Dec 13, 2022

base term 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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

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.

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. 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 Oct 28, 2016, when application 15/338,138, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 24, 2021)	Oct 28, 2036	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High 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	1 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Oct 28, 2036	High confidence

This family

US 10,281,709	In force Apr 2037	Apr 2037
US 11,016,282	In force Oct 2036	Oct 2036
US 11,525,999	this patent Oct 2036	Oct 2036

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
May 25, 2021 Reel 56343, frame 174	Fraen Corporation	Acera, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 25, 2021 Reel 56343, frame 192	Acera, Inc.	Acera, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 25, 2021 Reel 56343, frame 100	Root, Thomas V.; Cook, Michael; Davis, Thomas; Epstein, Michael S.	Acera Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 25, 2021 Reel 56343, frame 143	Jones, Carlton; Leo, David	Fraen Corporation	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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What's changing

Oct 2036

Term ends Oct 28, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 25% 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.

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