Term ends Oct 28, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 31, 2040
Held by NS Materials Inc.
Filed Oct 24, 2023 as application 18/383,091 · Granted Mar 17, 2026
Base term plus 107 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Jul 31, 2020
Jul 31, 2020
Term ends
Oct 28, 2040
Oct 28, 2040
Granted
Mar 17, 2026
Mar 17, 2026
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
107
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 11,834,596.
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.
4
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 107 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 Jul 31, 2020, when application PCT/JP2020/029529, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 24, 2023) | Jul 31, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +107 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 15, 2040 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,834,596) | capped to Oct 28, 2040 | 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 | Oct 28, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,834,596 | In force Oct 2040 | Oct 2040 |
| US 12,577,464 | this patent Oct 2040 | Oct 2040 |
| Application 19/536,648 | Pending not computed | not computed |
3 of 4 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 2023 Reel 65324, frame 584 | Nikata, Soichiro; Michiwaki, Yoko; Hieda, Tomoaki; Ogura, Yuko; Mishima, Akio; Kalousek, Vit | NS Materials Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Oct 2040
Term ends Oct 28, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 107 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 11,834,596.
Citations
We have no citation count for this patent yet. That is not the same as never having been cited.
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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.