Term ends Jan 24, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 7, 2035
Held by Precision Planting LLC
Filed Jun 28, 2019 as application 16/457,118 · Granted Jun 13, 2023
Base term plus 993 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2038
Clock starts
May 7, 2015
May 7, 2015
Term ends
Jan 24, 2038
Jan 24, 2038
Granted
Jun 13, 2023
Jun 13, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
993
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.
11
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 993 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 May 7, 2015, when applications PCT/US2015/029710 and PCT/US2015/029719, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Jun 28, 2019) | May 7, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +993 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 24, 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 | Jan 24, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2015/029719 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2015/029710 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2016/037704 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,785,905 | In force Mar 2036 | Mar 2036 |
| US 10,219,431 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 10,681,862 | In force no later than May 2035 | no later than May 2035 |
| US 11,672,195 | this patent Jan 2038 | Jan 2038 |
| US 11,224,157 | In force Jun 2036 | Jun 2036 |
8 of 11 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2038
Term ends Jan 24, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 993 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
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