Term ends Oct 31, 2042 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 17, 2042
Held by Beta Air, LLC
Filed Aug 17, 2022 as application 17/889,495 · Granted Sep 3, 2024
Base term plus 75 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2022
2042
Clock starts
Aug 17, 2022
Aug 17, 2022
Term ends
Oct 31, 2042
Oct 31, 2042
Granted
Sep 3, 2024
Sep 3, 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
75
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.
16
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 75 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 Aug 17, 2022, when this application, 17/889,495, was filed | Aug 17, 2042 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +75 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 31, 2042 | 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 | Oct 31, 2042 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,420,534 | In force Oct 2041 | Oct 2041 |
| US 11,623,533 | In force May 2042 | May 2042 |
| US 11,654,787 | In force May 2042 | May 2042 |
| US 11,628,746 | In force May 2042 | May 2042 |
| US 12,675,002 | In force Apr 2043 | Apr 2043 |
| Application 17/871,154 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 12,079,010 | this patent Oct 2042 | Oct 2042 |
| US 11,801,773 | In force Aug 2042 | Aug 2042 |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2024 Reel 66467, frame 538 | Henck, Thomas; Overfield, Sarah | Beta Air, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2042
Term ends Oct 31, 2042. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 75 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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