Term ends Dec 20, 2037 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 23, 2037
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Bind Benefits, Inc.
Filed Oct 21, 2019 as application 16/659,429 · Granted Oct 17, 2023
Base term plus 180 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Jun 23, 2017
Jun 23, 2017
Term ends
Dec 20, 2037
Dec 20, 2037
Granted
Oct 17, 2023
Oct 17, 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
180
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.
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 180 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 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 Jun 23, 2017, when applications 15/631,961 and 15/632,052, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Oct 21, 2019); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jun 23, 2037 | 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 | +180 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 20, 2037 | 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 | Dec 20, 2037 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 12,711,553 | In force Jun 2037 | Jun 2037 |
| US 11,663,670 | In force Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| US 12,731,190 | In force Jun 2037 | Jun 2037 |
| US 11,790,454 | this patent Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| US 12,705,672 | In force Jun 2037 | Jun 2037 |
| US 12,266,018 | In force Jun 2037 | Jun 2037 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2023 Reel 63486, frame 532 | Miller, Anthony; Dickey, David; Chiv, Henning; Chock, Matthew; Eiden, Glen; Fast, Trevor; Wagoner, Shawn; Wiandt, Matthew; Zeaske, Jessica; Thygeson, Nels Marcus; Haupt, Jason; Hastings, Charley | Bind Benefits, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2037
Term ends Dec 20, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 180 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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.