Term ends Sep 29, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 29, 2037
Held by Midea Group Co., Ltd.
Filed May 18, 2021 as application 17/323,350 · Granted Oct 31, 2023
Base term plus 235 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Sep 29, 2017
Sep 29, 2017
Term ends
Sep 29, 2037
Sep 29, 2037
Granted
Oct 31, 2023
Oct 31, 2023
base term
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
235
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,058,279.
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.
4
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 235 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Sep 29, 2017, when application 15/721,099, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 18, 2021) | Sep 29, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +235 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 22, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,058,279) | capped to Sep 29, 2037 | 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 | Sep 29, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,531,781 | In force Nov 2037 | Nov 2037 |
| US 11,058,279 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 11,800,963 | this patent Sep 2037 | Sep 2037 |
| US 12,290,225 | In force Nov 2038 | Nov 2038 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2021 Reel 56283, frame 397 | Digman, Robert M.; Wilson, Mark W.; Wetzel, Timothy | Midea Group Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Sep 2037
Term ends Sep 29, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 235 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,058,279.
Citations
1
later US patent cites 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
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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.