Term ends Nov 20, 2038 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 20, 2038
Held by Watts Regulator Co.
Filed Dec 15, 2021 as application 17/644,477 · Granted Nov 5, 2024
Base term plus 488 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2018
2038
Clock starts
Nov 20, 2018
Nov 20, 2018
Term ends
Nov 20, 2038
Nov 20, 2038
Granted
Nov 5, 2024
Nov 5, 2024
base term
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
488
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 11,397,009.
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.
7
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 488 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: Low. 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 20, 2018, when application 16/196,538, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 15, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Nov 20, 2038 | 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 | +488 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 22, 2040 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,397,009) | capped to Nov 20, 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 |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 16595781, 16196538 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 20, 2038 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 11,396,467 | In force Nov 2038 | Nov 2038 |
| US 11,397,009 | In force Nov 2038 | Nov 2038 |
| US 12,135,135 | this patent Nov 2038 | Nov 2038 |
| US 12,195,953 | In force no later than Mar 2040 | no later than Mar 2040 |
| US 12,195,378 | In force no later than Nov 2039 | no later than Nov 2039 |
| US 12,196,430 | In force no later than Nov 2039 | no later than Nov 2039 |
| US 12,305,885 | In force no later than Mar 2040 | no later than Mar 2040 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 2022 Reel 58695, frame 661 | D'amore, Theresa; D'amore, Vincent; Beukema, Brent A.; Stannis, Gordon J. | Watts Regulator Co. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Nov 2038
Term ends Nov 20, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 488 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 11,397,009.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
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