Term ends Nov 24, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 31, 2036
Held by Altria Client Services LLC
Filed Apr 3, 2023 as application 18/295,038 · Granted Sep 15, 2026
Base term plus 769 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
Jul 31, 2016
Jul 31, 2016
Term ends
Nov 24, 2037
Nov 24, 2037
Granted
Sep 15, 2026
Sep 15, 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
769
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 11,641,882.
0 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. 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 769 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 2 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, 2016, when application 15/224,608, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 3, 2023) | Jul 31, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +769 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 8, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,641,882) | capped to Nov 24, 2037 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 24, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,729,177 | In force Jul 2038 | Jul 2038 |
| US 11,641,882 | In force Nov 2037 | Nov 2037 |
| US 12,733,682 | this patent Nov 2037 | Nov 2037 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2037
Term ends Nov 24, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 769 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 11,641,882.
Citations
We have no citation count for this patent yet. That is not the same as never having been cited.
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