Term ends May 6, 2044 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 25, 2044
Held by Yield Engineering Systems, Inc.
Filed Apr 25, 2024 as application 18/645,756 · Granted Jul 14, 2026
Base term plus 11 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2024
2044
Clock starts
Apr 25, 2024
Apr 25, 2024
Term ends
May 6, 2044
May 6, 2044
Granted
Jul 14, 2026
Jul 14, 2026
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
11
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 11 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 Apr 25, 2024, when this application, 18/645,756, was filed | Apr 25, 2044 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +11 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 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 | May 6, 2044 | High confidence |
This family
| US 12,685,065 | this patent May 2044 | May 2044 |
| Application PCT/US2025/025775 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 19/739,464 | 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 25, 2024 Reel 67225, frame 425 | Patil, Arvind; Kumar, Sanjay; Ravikumar, Harish | Yield Engineering Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2044
Term ends May 6, 2044. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 11 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
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