Term ends Sep 9, 2036 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 24, 2036
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Kohler Co.
Filed Sep 9, 2020 as application 17/016,317 · Granted Jan 3, 2023
Base term plus 16 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2036
Clock starts
Aug 24, 2016
Aug 24, 2016
Term ends
Sep 9, 2036
Sep 9, 2036
Granted
Jan 3, 2023
Jan 3, 2023
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
16
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.
16
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 16 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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 Aug 24, 2016, when application PCT/US2016/048419, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 9, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Aug 24, 2036 | 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 | +16 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 9, 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 | Sep 9, 2036 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2016/048419 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,450,733 | In force Aug 2036 | Aug 2036 |
| US 10,544,574 | In force Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
| US 11,105,082 | In force Aug 2036 | Aug 2036 |
| US 11,261,592 | In force Aug 2036 | Aug 2036 |
| US 11,542,698 | this patent Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| US 11,873,634 | In force Dec 2036 | Dec 2036 |
| US 11,674,298 | In force Aug 2036 | Aug 2036 |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2021 Reel 55768, frame 167 | Luettgen, Michael; Kuru, William; Garrels, Clayton; Denzin, Peter W. | Kohler Co. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2036
Term ends Sep 9, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 16 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2023 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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.