Term ends Feb 20, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 20, 2035
Filed Dec 20, 2019 as application 16/723,914 · Granted Oct 24, 2023
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Feb 20, 2015
Feb 20, 2015
Term ends
Feb 20, 2035
Feb 20, 2035
Granted
Oct 24, 2023
Oct 24, 2023
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,046,056, US 10,821,157, US 10,940,209, US 10,946,079, US 10,953,101, US 11,801,305, to Feb 20, 2035. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
18
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Feb 20, 2015, when application 14/627,297, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 20, 2019) | Feb 20, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,046,056, US 10,821,157, US 10,940,209, US 10,946,079, US 10,953,101, US 11,801,305) | resolves to Feb 20, 2035, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Feb 20, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,821,157 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 10,946,079 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 10,046,056 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 10,953,101 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 10,940,209 | In force (reinstated) Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 11,654,188 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 11,666,638 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 11,793,882 | this patent Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
8 of 18 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2021 Reel 57377, frame 69 | Hubbell, Jeffrey Alan; Wilson, David Scott | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2035
Term ends Feb 20, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,046,056, US 10,821,157, US 10,940,209, US 10,946,079, US 10,953,101, US 11,801,305, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% 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.