Term ends Jun 15, 2035 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by Carbon, Inc.

Filed Jan 22, 2021 as application 17/155,349 · Granted Oct 17, 2023

Base term plus 308 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Jun 15, 2035

2014 2035

Clock starts
Aug 11, 2014

Term ends
Jun 15, 2035

Granted
Oct 17, 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

308

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.

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 308 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 11, 2014, when application 14/456,270, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 22, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Aug 11, 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	+308 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jun 15, 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	Jun 15, 2035	Medium confidence

This family

US 9,360,757	In force Aug 2034	Aug 2034
US 10,016,938	In force Jan 2034	Jan 2034
US 11,260,208	In force Nov 2039	Nov 2039
US 11,141,910	In force Jan 2034	Jan 2034
US 11,786,711	this patent Jun 2035	Jun 2035
US 12,121,686	In force Sep 2039	Sep 2039
US 12,151,073	In force Jan 2034	Jan 2034
Application 18/922,321	Pending not computed	not computed

8 of 9 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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.

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What's changing

Jun 2035

Term ends Jun 15, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 308 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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