Term ends Jan 29, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 15, 2026
Held by CFPH, LLC
Filed Aug 9, 2021 as application 17/397,324 · Granted Oct 24, 2023
Base term plus 75 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2027
Clock starts
Nov 15, 2006
Nov 15, 2006
Term ends
Jan 29, 2027
Jan 29, 2027
Granted
Oct 24, 2023
Oct 24, 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
75
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
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 75 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. No maintenance fee can end this term early. 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 Nov 15, 2006, when application 11/560,077, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 9, 2021) | Nov 15, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +75 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 29, 2027 | 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 | No maintenance fee can end the term early | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 29, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,942,739 | In force no later than Sep 2029 | no later than Sep 2029 |
| US 9,064,373 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 10,525,357 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 11,083,970 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 11,794,113 | this patent Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| Application 18/369,380 | Abandoned 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
Jan 2027
Term ends Jan 29, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 75 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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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.