Term ends Jan 30, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 21, 2035
Held by Cummins-Allison Corp.
Filed Sep 1, 2018 as application 16/120,252 · Granted Apr 11, 2023
Base term plus 193 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2036
Clock starts
Jul 21, 2015
Jul 21, 2015
Term ends
Jan 30, 2036
Jan 30, 2036
Granted
Apr 11, 2023
Apr 11, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
193
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
9
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 193 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are 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 Jul 21, 2015, when application 14/804,670, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 1, 2018) | Jul 21, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +193 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 30, 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 30, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,501,885 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 9,508,208 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| Application 14/936,846 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,916,713 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 9,870,668 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 10,685,523 | In force Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 10,068,406 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 11,625,968 | this patent Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 2018 Reel 46976, frame 256 | Jagielinski, Tomasz M.; Tomor, Mathew; Yacoubian, Araz; Mecklenburg, David J.; Yang, Danny D. | Cummins-Allison Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2036
Term ends Jan 30, 2036.
Note
The 193 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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