Term ends Feb 11, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 30, 2030
Filed Sep 16, 2013 as application 14/027,878 · Granted Jun 14, 2016
Base term plus 226 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2031
Clock starts
Jun 30, 2010
Jun 30, 2010
Term ends
Feb 11, 2031
Feb 11, 2031
Granted
Jun 14, 2016
Jun 14, 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
226
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.
15
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 226 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 Jun 30, 2010, when application 12/826,772, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 16, 2013) | Jun 30, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +226 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 11, 2031 | 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 | Feb 11, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,576,209 | In force Feb 2032 | Feb 2032 |
| US 9,370,094 | this patent Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 9,748,275 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 9,735,178 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 10,147,742 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 10,361,221 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 10,411,038 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 10,692,891 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
8 of 15 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2031
Term ends Feb 11, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 226 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
16
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% 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.