Term ends Jun 26, 2037 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 18, 2036
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Galvion Ltd.
Filed May 23, 2022 as application 17/751,022 · Granted Oct 15, 2024
Base term plus 220 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
Nov 18, 2016
Nov 18, 2016
Term ends
Jun 26, 2037
Jun 26, 2037
Granted
Oct 15, 2024
Oct 15, 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
220
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.
6
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 220 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Nov 18, 2016, when application PCT/US2016/062863, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 23, 2022); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Nov 18, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +220 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 26, 2037 | 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 | Jun 26, 2037 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2016/062863 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,587,116 | In force Dec 2036 | Dec 2036 |
| US 11,355,928 | In force Jun 2037 | Jun 2037 |
| US 12,119,642 | this patent Jun 2037 | Jun 2037 |
| US 12,689,211 | In force Dec 2036 | Dec 2036 |
| Application 19/698,214 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2022 Reel 61163, frame 577 | Long, David N.; Flathers, Richard; McConnell, Gregory D.; Piela, Nicholas J. | Galvion Soldier Power, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 13, 2025 Reel 72888, frame 99 | Galvion Soldier Power, LLC | Galvion Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2037
Term ends Jun 26, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 220 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
28
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.