Term ends May 23, 2041 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 17, 2037
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Flextronics Ap, LLC
Filed Apr 6, 2021 as application 17/223,689 · Granted Sep 8, 2026
Base term plus 1556 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2041
Clock starts
Feb 17, 2017
Feb 17, 2017
Term ends
May 23, 2041
May 23, 2041
Granted
Sep 8, 2026
Sep 8, 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
1,556
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.
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 1556 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Feb 17, 2017, when application 15/436,524, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 6, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Feb 17, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1556 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 23, 2041 | 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 23, 2041 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 10,799,631 | In force Nov 2038 | Nov 2038 |
| US 10,967,118 | In force Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| Application PCT/US2019/027136 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 17/016,153 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 12,728,196 | this patent May 2041 | May 2041 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
May 2041
Term ends May 23, 2041. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1556 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
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.