Term ends Dec 16, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 29, 2034
Held by Headway Technologies, Inc.
Filed Jul 29, 2014 as application 14/445,167 · Granted Sep 6, 2016
Base term plus 140 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Jul 29, 2014
Jul 29, 2014
Term ends
Dec 16, 2034
Dec 16, 2034
Granted
Sep 6, 2016
Sep 6, 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
140
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.
28
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 140 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 Jul 29, 2014, when this application, 14/445,167, was filed | Jul 29, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +140 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 16, 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 | Dec 16, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,437,225 | this patent Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| US 8,947,986 | In force Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| US 9,573,243 | In force Nov 2034 | Nov 2034 |
| US 9,601,137 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| US 9,412,397 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| US 9,608,200 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 9,361,912 | In force Apr 2035 | Apr 2035 |
| US 9,361,923 | In force Apr 2035 | Apr 2035 |
8 of 28 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 11, 2014 Reel 33717, frame 30 | Quan, Junjie; Zhang, Kunliang; Li, Min; Ding, Ruhang; Chye, Yewhee; Garfunkel, Glen; Chen, Wenyu | Headway Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2034
Term ends Dec 16, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 140 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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