Term ends Mar 18, 2041 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 12, 2040
Filed Aug 12, 2020 as application 16/991,159 · Granted Mar 21, 2023
Base term plus 218 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2041
Clock starts
Aug 12, 2020
Aug 12, 2020
Term ends
Mar 18, 2041
Mar 18, 2041
Granted
Mar 21, 2023
Mar 21, 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
218
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.
2
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 218 days past its 20-year base term on 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 Aug 12, 2020, when this application, 16/991,159, was filed | Aug 12, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +218 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 18, 2041 | 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 | Mar 18, 2041 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,607,724 | this patent Mar 2041 | Mar 2041 |
| US 12,023,728 | In force Aug 2040 | Aug 2040 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2020 Reel 53467, frame 422 | Sukhotskiy, Viktor; Mantell, David A.; Ramesh, Palghat S.; Tawil, Kareem; Fioravanti, Alexander J.; Jayabal, Dinesh Krishna Kumar | Xerox Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 22, 2023 Reel 64760, frame 389 | Xerox Corporation | Citibank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Nov 1, 2023 Reel 65427, frame 862 | Xerox Corporation | Elem Additive LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 1, 2023 Reel 65428, frame 1 | Elem Additive LLC | Additive Technologies, LLC Dba Additec | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 13, 2024 Reel 68261, frame 1 | Citibank, N.A., as Collateral Agent | Xerox Corporation | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents Recorded at RF 064760/0389 |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2041
Term ends Mar 18, 2041. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 218 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
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.
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