Term ends Dec 31, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 14, 2027
Held by Datashapes, Inc.
Filed Aug 13, 2020 as application 16/947,714 · Granted Apr 23, 2024
Base term plus 870 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2029
Clock starts
Aug 14, 2007
Aug 14, 2007
Term ends
Dec 31, 2029
Dec 31, 2029
Granted
Apr 23, 2024
Apr 23, 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
870
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 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
11
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 870 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 1 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 14, 2007, when application 11/838,832, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 13, 2020) | Aug 14, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +870 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 31, 2029 | 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 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 31, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,966,274 | In force Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
| US 8,214,311 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 9,684,838 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 10,810,452 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| Application 15/600,630 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,967,142 | this patent Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| US 11,967,143 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 11,967,144 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2021 Reel 56062, frame 498 | Rokio, Inc. | Datashapes, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2029
Term ends Dec 31, 2029. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 870 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
9
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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