Term ends Nov 27, 2039 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 4, 2038
Held by Postprocess Technologies, Inc.
Filed Jul 27, 2022 as application 17/874,350 · Granted Jun 10, 2025
Base term plus 404 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2018
2039
Clock starts
Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018
Term ends
Nov 27, 2039
Nov 27, 2039
Granted
Jun 10, 2025
Jun 10, 2025
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
404
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 11,491,724.
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.
3
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 404 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: 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 Dec 4, 2018, when application 16/209,778, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 27, 2022) | Dec 4, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +404 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 12, 2040 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,491,724) | capped to Nov 27, 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 |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 27, 2039 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,491,724 | In force Nov 2039 | Nov 2039 |
| Application PCT/US2021/016650 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 12,325,189 | this patent Nov 2039 | Nov 2039 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2022 Reel 60948, frame 986 | Hutchinson, Daniel Joshua | Postprocess Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 31, 2022 Reel 60949, frame 12 | Wegman, Owen | Postprocess Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 31, 2022 Reel 60949, frame 60 | Burch, Gary | Postprocess Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 31, 2022 Reel 60949, frame 129 | Farfaglia, Marc | Postprocess Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2039
Term ends Nov 27, 2039. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 404 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 11,491,724.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
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