Term ends Aug 10, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 20, 2038
Held by SRAM DEUTSCHLAND GmbH
Filed Nov 17, 2020 as application 16/950,282 · Granted May 30, 2023
Base term plus 143 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2018
2038
Clock starts
Mar 20, 2018
Mar 20, 2018
Term ends
Aug 10, 2038
Aug 10, 2038
Granted
May 30, 2023
May 30, 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
143
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.
5
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 143 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 Mar 20, 2018, when application 15/926,194, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 17, 2020) | Mar 20, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +143 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 10, 2038 | 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 | Aug 10, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,870,464 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US 11,661,142 | this patent Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US 11,975,801 | In force Mar 2038 | Mar 2038 |
| US 12,485,996 | In force Mar 2038 | Mar 2038 |
| Application 19/381,510 | Pending not computed | not computed |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2038
Term ends Aug 10, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 143 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
9
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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.