Term ends Dec 11, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 9, 2040
Held by Hover, Inc.
Filed Aug 2, 2022 as application 17/879,737 · Granted Apr 9, 2024
Base term plus 63 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Oct 9, 2020
Oct 9, 2020
Term ends
Dec 11, 2040
Dec 11, 2040
Granted
Apr 9, 2024
Apr 9, 2024
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
63
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.
5
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 63 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 Oct 9, 2020, when application 17/067,512, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 2, 2022) | Oct 9, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +63 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 11, 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 | Dec 11, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,429,690 | In force Feb 2041 | Feb 2041 |
| Application PCT/US2020/055261 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,954,169 | this patent Dec 2040 | Dec 2040 |
| US 12,235,925 | In force Oct 2040 | Oct 2040 |
| Application 18/988,532 | Pending 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
Dec 2040
Term ends Dec 11, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 63 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
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.