Term ends May 29, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 22, 2036
Held by Rachio, Inc.
Filed Feb 24, 2021 as application 17/183,534 · Granted Dec 5, 2023
Base term plus 393 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
Aug 22, 2016
Aug 22, 2016
Term ends
May 29, 2037
May 29, 2037
Granted
Dec 5, 2023
Dec 5, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
393
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 10,397,731.
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.
3
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 393 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 Aug 22, 2016, when application 15/242,930, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 24, 2021) | Aug 22, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +393 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 19, 2037 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,397,731) | capped to May 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 | May 29, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,397,731 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 10,939,227 | In force Aug 2036 | Aug 2036 |
| US 11,838,824 | this patent May 2037 | May 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 2021 Reel 55386, frame 519 | Klein, Christopher Michael; Garsombke, Franz David | Rachio, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 28, 2023 Reel 63481, frame 672 | Rachio, Inc. | First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company | Security Interest |
| Mar 22, 2024 Reel 66869, frame 720 | First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company | Rachio, Inc. | Release of Security Interest in Intellectual Property |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2037
Term ends May 29, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 393 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 10,397,731.
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% 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.