Term ends Jun 21, 2039 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 21, 2039
Held by Bissell Inc.
Filed Jul 16, 2021 as application 17/377,506 · Granted Feb 4, 2025
Base term plus 661 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2019
2039
Clock starts
Jun 21, 2019
Jun 21, 2019
Term ends
Jun 21, 2039
Jun 21, 2039
Granted
Feb 4, 2025
Feb 4, 2025
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
661
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 11,096,544.
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.
8
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 661 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 Jun 21, 2019, when application PCT/US2019/038423, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 16, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jun 21, 2039 | 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 | +661 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 12, 2041 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,096,544) | capped to Jun 21, 2039 | 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: 17119300, PCTUS2019038423 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 21, 2039 | Low confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2019/038423 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,096,544 | In force Jun 2039 | Jun 2039 |
| US 11,147,426 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 10,973,383 | In force Jun 2039 | Jun 2039 |
| Application 17/228,232 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 12,213,633 | this patent Jun 2039 | Jun 2039 |
| Application 17/488,406 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 18/733,257 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2021 Reel 56877, frame 848 | Nguyen, Tom Minh; Resch, Jacob; Wong, Yin Chun; Tang, Jian Hua; Wang, Yunfu | Bissell Homecare, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 16, 2021 Reel 56877, frame 906 | Boles, Jacob S. | Bissell Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 16, 2021 Reel 56878, frame 24 | Bissell Homecare, Inc. | Bissell Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2039
Term ends Jun 21, 2039. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 661 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 11,096,544.
Citations
9
later US patents cite this one
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