Term ends May 8, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 30, 2034
Held by Boston Dynamics, Inc.
Filed Jan 26, 2021 as application 17/158,086 · Granted May 23, 2023
Base term plus 129 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 2014
Term ends
May 8, 2035
May 8, 2035
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
129
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.
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 129 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 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 Dec 30, 2014, when application 14/585,542, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 26, 2021) | Dec 30, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +129 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 8, 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 | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 8, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,499,218 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| US 10,246,151 | In force no later than Jun 2035 | no later than Jun 2035 |
| US 11,225,294 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US 11,654,985 | this patent May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 12,365,407 | In force Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| Application 19/246,233 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 2021 Reel 55027, frame 326 | Stephens, Benjamin | Google Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 26, 2021 Reel 55027, frame 407 | 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
May 2035
Term ends May 8, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 129 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
11
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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