Term ends Jul 6, 2044 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 5, 2044
Held by Touchcast, LLC
Filed Jan 5, 2024 as application 18/406,028 · Granted Dec 30, 2025
Base term plus 183 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2024
2044
Clock starts
Jan 5, 2024
Jan 5, 2024
Term ends
Jul 6, 2044
Jul 6, 2044
Granted
Dec 30, 2025
Dec 30, 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
183
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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 183 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Jan 5, 2024, when this application, 18/406,028, was filed | Jan 5, 2044 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +183 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 6, 2044 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | 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 | Jul 6, 2044 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 63/478,550 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 12,513,203 | this patent Jul 2044 | Jul 2044 |
| Application 19/436,652 | 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 1, 2024 Reel 66959, frame 950 | Segal, Edo | Touchcast, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 4, 2026 Reel 73690, frame 493 | Touchcast, Inc. | Salerno, Michael | Security Interest |
| Feb 4, 2026 Reel 74613, frame 464 | Touchcast, Inc., F/K/A Touchcast, LLC | Salerno, Michael | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 11, 2026 Reel 75712, frame 381 | TC Merger Sub Inc. | Touchcast, Inc. | Merger |
| Jun 11, 2026 Reel 76566, frame 616 | Touchcast, Inc.; TC Merger Sub 2 LLC | Touchcast, LLC | Merger and Change of Name |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Jul 2044
Term ends Jul 6, 2044. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 183 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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