Term ends Nov 19, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 14, 2040
Held by Dcbel Inc.
Filed Sep 17, 2021 as application 17/440,243 · Granted Nov 7, 2023
Base term plus 219 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Apr 14, 2020
Apr 14, 2020
Term ends
Nov 19, 2040
Nov 19, 2040
Granted
Nov 7, 2023
Nov 7, 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
219
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.
2
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 219 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Apr 14, 2020, when application PCT/CA2020/050499, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 17, 2021) | Apr 14, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +219 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 19, 2040 | 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 | Nov 19, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,811,300 | this patent Nov 2040 | Nov 2040 |
1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 2021 Reel 58211, frame 231 | Vahedi, Hani; Forget, Marc-André | Dcbel Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Nov 2040
Term ends Nov 19, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 219 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
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.
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