Term ends Jul 11, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 27, 2035
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Filed Jun 28, 2019 as application 16/456,292 · Granted Jan 10, 2023
Base term plus 551 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2015
2036
Clock starts
Feb 27, 2015
Feb 27, 2015
Term ends
Jul 11, 2036
Jul 11, 2036
Granted
Jan 10, 2023
Jan 10, 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
551
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,888,719.
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 551 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Feb 27, 2015, when application 14/634,124, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 28, 2019) | Feb 27, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +551 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 31, 2036 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,888,719) | capped to Jul 11, 2036 | 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 | Jul 11, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,888,719 | In force Jul 2036 | Jul 2036 |
| US 10,362,806 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 11,547,145 | this patent Jul 2036 | Jul 2036 |
| Application 18/061,044 | Pending not computed | not computed |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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What's changing
Jul 2036
Term ends Jul 11, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 551 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,888,719.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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.