Term ends Mar 8, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 1, 2031
Held by Mongodb, Inc.
Filed Mar 1, 2011 as application 13/037,969 · Granted Feb 24, 2015
Base term plus 373 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2032
Clock starts
Mar 1, 2011
Mar 1, 2011
Term ends
Mar 8, 2032
Mar 8, 2032
Granted
Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
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
373
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.
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 373 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 Mar 1, 2011, when this application, 13/037,969, was filed | Mar 1, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +373 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 8, 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 | Mar 8, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,965,901 | this patent Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
| US 9,646,036 | In force no later than Apr 2031 | no later than Apr 2031 |
| US 10,572,465 | In force no later than Oct 2031 | no later than Oct 2031 |
| US 11,573,942 | In force no later than Mar 2032 | no later than Mar 2032 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2012 Reel 27884, frame 518 | Merriman, Dwight; Horowitz, Eliot | 10GEN | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 23, 2013 Reel 31290, frame 18 | 10GEN, Inc. | Mongodb, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Mar 17, 2020 Reel 52183, frame 965 | Merriman, Dwight; Horowitz, Eliot | 10GEN, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee's Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 027884 Frame: 0518. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment . |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2032
Term ends Mar 8, 2032. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 373 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
47
later US patents cite this one
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