Term ends Jul 30, 2035 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 18, 2034
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Universal City Studios LLC
Filed Feb 20, 2020 as application 16/796,252 · Granted Feb 21, 2023
Base term plus 346 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Aug 18, 2014
Aug 18, 2014
Term ends
Jul 30, 2035
Jul 30, 2035
Granted
Feb 21, 2023
Feb 21, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
346
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.
8
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 346 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 18, 2014, when application 14/462,249, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 20, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Aug 18, 2034 | 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 | +346 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 30, 2035 | 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 | Jul 30, 2035 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,690,375 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| Application PCT/US2015/044451 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,241,568 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 10,606,348 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 11,586,277 | this patent Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 12,147,594 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| Application 18/950,996 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 19/022,444 | Pending not computed | not computed |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Jul 2035
Term ends Jul 30, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 346 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites 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
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.