Term ends Dec 8, 2034 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 25, 2034
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Boston Dynamics, Inc.
Filed Dec 22, 2020 as application 17/129,996 · Granted May 23, 2023
Base term plus 105 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Aug 25, 2014
Aug 25, 2014
Term ends
Dec 8, 2034
Dec 8, 2034
Granted
May 23, 2023
May 23, 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
105
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. 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 105 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are 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 25, 2014, when application 14/468,118, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 22, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Aug 25, 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 | +105 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 8, 2034 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 8, 2034 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,387,588 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 9,789,611 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 10,406,690 | In force no later than Aug 2034 | no later than Aug 2034 |
| US 10,668,624 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 10,888,999 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 11,654,569 | this patent Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| US 12,128,570 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| Application 18/912,229 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 22, 2020 Reel 54717, frame 385 | Blankespoor, Kevin; Stephens, Ben; Da Silva, Marco | Google Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 22, 2020 Reel 54717, frame 418 | Google Inc. | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 5, 2021 Reel 57711, frame 202 | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Oct 27, 2021 Reel 57964, frame 415 | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Applications Numbers 63127573 and 11/302759 and the City of the Assignee Previously Recorded at Reel: 057111 Frame: 0202. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Dec 2034
Term ends Dec 8, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 105 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
16
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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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.