Term ends Jun 16, 2033 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Mars, Incorporated

Filed Oct 19, 2011 as application 13/276,806 · Granted Jan 12, 2016

Base term plus 606 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Jun 16, 2033

2011 2033

Clock starts
Oct 19, 2011

Term ends
Jun 16, 2033

Granted
Jan 12, 2016

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

606

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

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.

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 606 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Oct 19, 2011, when this application, 13/276,806, was filed	Oct 19, 2031	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+606 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jun 16, 2033	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	2 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jun 16, 2033	High confidence

This family

US 9,233,985	this patent Jun 2033	Jun 2033
US 9,440,995	In force no later than Oct 2031	no later than Oct 2031
US 10,098,902	In force Oct 2031	Oct 2031
US 10,603,330	Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2024	Mar 2024
US 11,389,464	In force Oct 2031	Oct 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
Jan 30, 2012 Reel 27616, frame 717	Zandt, Michael Van; Jagdmann Jr., Gunnar Erik	Mars, Incorporated	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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What's changing

Jun 2033

Term ends Jun 16, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 606 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against. How we rank

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.

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