Term ends Sep 26, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 26, 2033
Held by Bluvector, Inc.
Filed Apr 16, 2021 as application 17/301,868 · Granted Oct 14, 2025
Base term plus 109 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013
Term ends
Sep 26, 2033
Sep 26, 2033
Granted
Oct 14, 2025
Oct 14, 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
109
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 11,126,720, US 9,292,688, US 9,665,713.
0 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
5
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 109 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 1 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 Sep 26, 2013, when application 14/038,682, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 16, 2021) | Sep 26, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +109 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 13, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,126,720, US 9,292,688, US 9,665,713) | capped to Sep 26, 2033 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 26, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,292,688 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| US 9,665,713 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| US 11,126,720 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| US 12,443,710 | this patent Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| Application 19/298,941 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2021 Reel 55944, frame 499 | Steiner, Donald | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 16, 2021 Reel 55944, frame 614 | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | Acuity Solutions Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 16, 2021 Reel 55944, frame 837 | Acuity Solutions Corporation | Bluvector, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Apr 16, 2021 Reel 55945, frame 58 | Miserendino, Scott; Peters, Ryan | Bluvector, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 17, 2021 Reel 56256, frame 82 | Avasarala, Bhargav R.; Bose, Brock D.; Day, John C. | Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2033
Term ends Sep 26, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 109 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 11,126,720, US 9,292,688, US 9,665,713.
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
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