Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 7, 2024 (U.S. Bank National Association).
Term ends May 21, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 25, 2039
Held by Hughes Network Systems, LLC
Filed Nov 15, 2019 as application 16/685,943 · Granted Apr 2, 2024
Base term plus 239 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2019
2040
Clock starts
Sep 25, 2019
Sep 25, 2019
Term ends
May 21, 2040
May 21, 2040
Granted
Apr 2, 2024
Apr 2, 2024
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
239
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.
26
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 239 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 Sep 25, 2019, when application 16/583,004, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 15, 2019) | Sep 25, 2039 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +239 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 21, 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 | May 21, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,532,890 | In force Sep 2040 | Sep 2040 |
| Application 62/834,308 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 62/843,314 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application 62/904,594 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,438,763 | In force Sep 2040 | Sep 2040 |
| US 11,949,650 | this patent May 2040 | May 2040 |
| US 12,347,927 | In force Apr 2041 | Apr 2041 |
| Application PCT/US2019/068222 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2020 Reel 52598, frame 481 | Ramachandran, Ganeshan; Torres, Robert; Choquette, George | Hughes Network Systems, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 7, 2024 Reel 68211, frame 778 | Hughes Network Systems , LLC | U.S. Bank National Association | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2040
Term ends May 21, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 239 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
Fewer than half of the utility patents granted in 2024 in our data have been cited yet, so we show the count and do not rank on it.
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.