Term ends Feb 18, 2041 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 18, 2041
Held by Ticona LLC
Filed May 31, 2023 as application 18/326,053 · Granted May 13, 2025
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2021
2041
Clock starts
Feb 18, 2021
Feb 18, 2021
Term ends
Feb 18, 2041
Feb 18, 2041
Granted
May 13, 2025
May 13, 2025
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,702,539, US 12,522,716, to Feb 18, 2041. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
9
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Feb 18, 2021, when application 17/178,295, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 31, 2023) | Feb 18, 2041 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,702,539, US 12,522,716) | resolves to Feb 18, 2041, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Feb 18, 2041 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,715,579 | In force May 2041 | May 2041 |
| US 11,702,539 | In force May 2041 | May 2041 |
| US 11,729,908 | In force Jan 2042 | Jan 2042 |
| Application PCT/US2021/019443 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 12,522,716 | In force Jun 2042 | Jun 2042 |
| US 11,728,065 | In force Apr 2041 | Apr 2041 |
| Application PCT/US2021/041513 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 12,297,348 | this patent Feb 2041 | Feb 2041 |
8 of 9 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2041
Term ends Feb 18, 2041. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,702,539, US 12,522,716, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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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.