Term ends Sep 26, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 26, 2038
Held by Dexterity, Inc.
Filed Dec 18, 2018 as application 16/224,513 · Granted Dec 2, 2025
Base term plus 42 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2018
2038
Clock starts
Sep 26, 2018
Sep 26, 2018
Term ends
Sep 26, 2038
Sep 26, 2038
Granted
Dec 2, 2025
Dec 2, 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
42
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 11,731,792.
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.
6
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 42 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 Sep 26, 2018, when application 16/143,278, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 18, 2018) | Sep 26, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +42 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 7, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,731,792) | capped to Sep 26, 2038 | 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 | Sep 26, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,731,792 | In force Sep 2038 | Sep 2038 |
| US 12,486,061 | this patent Sep 2038 | Sep 2038 |
| Application PCT/US2019/051515 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2019/051882 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 12,263,977 | In force Sep 2038 | Sep 2038 |
| Application 19/053,175 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 2019 Reel 48369, frame 224 | Menon, Samir; Hegdahl, Robert; Sun, Zhouwen; Chavez, Kevin Jose; Morris-downing, Talbot; Sun, Cuthbert | Dexterity, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Sep 2038
Term ends Sep 26, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 42 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 11,731,792.
Citations
28
later US patents cite this one
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