Term ends Jan 22, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 14, 2033
Held by Altria Client Services LLC
Filed Jan 14, 2013 as application 13/741,254 · Granted May 3, 2016
Base term plus 373 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2034
Clock starts
Jan 14, 2013
Jan 14, 2013
Term ends
Jan 22, 2034
Jan 22, 2034
Granted
May 3, 2016
May 3, 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
373
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.
33
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. 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 Jan 14, 2013, when this application, 13/741,254, was filed | Jan 14, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +373 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 22, 2034 | 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 | Jan 22, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,282,772 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 9,326,547 | this patent Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 9,854,839 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 9,510,623 | In force Feb 2034 | Feb 2034 |
| US 8,997,754 | In force Jun 2033 | Jun 2033 |
| US 9,004,073 | In force Jun 2033 | Jun 2033 |
| US 9,474,306 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| Application 15/049,573 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 2013 Reel 31452, frame 789 | Tucker, Christopher S.; Jordan, Geoffrey Brandon; Smith, Barry S.; Rostami, Ali A.; Mullins, Michael J. | Altria Client Services Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 26, 2015 Reel 36425, frame 20 | Altria Client Services Inc.; Altria Client Services LLC | Altria Client Services LLC | Merger and Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2034
Term ends Jan 22, 2034. Maintenance fees still 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
509
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% 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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