Term ends Mar 20, 2037 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 11,934,298), so the cap could be lower.

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Filed Feb 28, 2024 as application 18/590,879 · Granted Jul 15, 2025

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Mar 20, 2037

2017 2037

Clock starts
Mar 20, 2017

Term ends
Mar 20, 2037

Granted
Jul 15, 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 11,086,761, US 11,934,298, to Mar 20, 2037. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

0 of 2

Maintenance fees paid

Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.

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 2 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 Mar 20, 2017, when application 15/463,071, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 28, 2024)	Mar 20, 2037	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 11,086,761, US 11,934,298)	resolves to Mar 20, 2037, no earlier than this term, so no change	Medium confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	0 of 2 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Mar 20, 2037	Medium confidence

This family

US 11,086,761	Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2025	Aug 2025
Application PCT/US2018/023433	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 11,934,298	In force no later than Mar 2037	no later than Mar 2037
US 12,360,881	this patent Mar 2037	Mar 2037
Application 19/261,017	Pending not computed	not computed

The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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What's changing

Mar 2037

Term ends Mar 20, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,086,761, US 11,934,298, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

Fewer than half of the utility patents granted in 2025 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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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