Term ends Oct 15, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 3, 2031
Held by Honeycomb Battery Company
Filed Jan 3, 2011 as application 12/930,294 · Granted Oct 14, 2014
Base term plus 651 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2032
Clock starts
Jan 3, 2011
Jan 3, 2011
Term ends
Oct 15, 2032
Oct 15, 2032
Granted
Oct 14, 2014
Oct 14, 2014
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
651
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
8
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 651 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 3, 2011, when this application, 12/930,294, was filed | Jan 3, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +651 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 15, 2032 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 15, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,166,252 | In force no later than Oct 2031 | no later than Oct 2031 |
| US 8,859,143 | this patent Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
| US 8,889,298 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
| Application PCT/US2011/064827 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,326,168 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| US 11,038,205 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 10,770,755 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 11,189,859 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2013 Reel 30429, frame 263 | Zhamu, Aruna; Liu, Chenguang; Jang, Bor Z.; Yu, Zhenning; Neff, David N. | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 12, 2016 Reel 38414, frame 604 | Yu, Zhenning | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 13, 2016 Reel 38428, frame 440 | Liu, Chenguang | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 18, 2016 Reel 38454, frame 993 | Liu, Chenguang | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 19, 2016 Reel 38463, frame 95 | Zhamu, Aruna | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 19, 2016 Reel 38464, frame 403 | Jang, Bor Z. | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 17, 2019 Reel 49784, frame 650 | Nanotek Instruments, Inc. | Global Graphene Group, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 28, 2024 Reel 66957, frame 745 | Global Graphene Group, Inc. | Honeycomb Battery Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2032
Term ends Oct 15, 2032. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 651 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
82
later US patents cite this one
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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.