Term ends Sep 7, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 7, 2031
Held by Cosmo Technologies Limited
Filed Aug 14, 2012 as application 13/585,190 · Granted Sep 15, 2015
Base term plus 22 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Sep 7, 2011
Sep 7, 2011
Term ends
Sep 7, 2031
Sep 7, 2031
Granted
Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015
base term
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
22
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 9,192,581.
2 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.
12
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 22 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 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 Sep 7, 2011, when application 13/226,758, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 14, 2012) | Sep 7, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +22 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 29, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,192,581) | capped to Sep 7, 2031 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 7, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,895,064 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| US 9,132,093 | this patent Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| US 9,192,581 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| Application 14/832,845 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,592,203 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 9,737,489 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 10,052,286 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 10,154,964 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
8 of 12 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 2014 Reel 33854, frame 673 | Villa, Roberto; Pedrani, Massimo; Ajani, Mauro; Fossati, Lorenzo | Cosmo Technologies Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 23, 2016 Reel 39784, frame 907 | Cosmo Technologies Limited | Cosmo Technologies Limited | Change of Assignee Address |
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What's changing
Sep 2031
Term ends Sep 7, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 22 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 9,192,581.
Citations
22
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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