Term ended Nov 2, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 3, 2026
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by BGC Partners, Inc.
Filed Aug 12, 2021 as application 17/400,201 · Granted May 16, 2023
Base term plus 91 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Nov 2, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Aug 3, 2006
Aug 3, 2006
Term ended
Nov 2, 2026
Nov 2, 2026
Granted
May 16, 2023
May 16, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
91
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
6
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 91 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 3, 2006, when application 11/499,496, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 12, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Aug 3, 2026 | 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 | +91 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 2, 2026 | 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 | No maintenance fee can end the term early | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 2, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,484,122 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 10,395,310 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 11,094,004 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 11,651,423 | this patent Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| Application 18/144,914 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 12,602,723 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
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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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 91 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
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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