Term ends May 7, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 2, 2038
Held by MJNN LLC
Filed Mar 25, 2021 as application 17/212,580 · Granted Jun 11, 2024
Base term plus 542 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2018
2038
Clock starts
Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018
Term ends
May 7, 2038
May 7, 2038
Granted
Jun 11, 2024
Jun 11, 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
542
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 10,986,787.
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 542 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 Mar 2, 2018, when application 15/910,796, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 25, 2021) | Mar 2, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +542 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 26, 2039 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,986,787) | capped to May 7, 2038 | 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 7, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,986,791 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| Application PCT/US2019/017720 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,986,787 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 12,004,457 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US 12,004,458 | this patent May 2038 | May 2038 |
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 28, 2025 Reel 70364, frame 725 | MJNN LLC | One Madison Group – Plenty II, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| May 30, 2025 Reel 71468, frame 487 | One Madison Group – Plenty II, LLC, as Collateral Agent | MJNN LLC | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents at Reel 070364/FRAME 0725 |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2038
Term ends May 7, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 542 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 10,986,787.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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