Term ended Feb 21, 2026 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Carrier Corporation

Filed Sep 29, 2014 as application 14/499,826 · Granted Oct 25, 2016

Base term plus 207 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Feb 21, 2026

2005 2026

Clock starts
Jul 29, 2005

Term ended
Feb 21, 2026

Granted
Oct 25, 2016

base term patent term adjustment after the term ends fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know

207

Days of term adjustment

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

No effect

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,113,008, US 9,494,345, to Feb 21, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

2 of 2

Maintenance fees paid

Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. 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 207 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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, 2005, when application PCT/EP2005/008255, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 29, 2014)	Jul 29, 2025	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+207 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Feb 21, 2026	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,113,008, US 9,494,345)	resolves to Feb 21, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	2 of 2 maintenance fees paid	term ended	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Feb 21, 2026	High confidence

This family

US 8,113,008	In force Apr 2028	Apr 2028
US 8,844,303	Term ended Jan 2026	Jan 2026
US 9,494,345	Term ended Feb 2026	Feb 2026
US 9,476,614	this patent Feb 2026	Feb 2026

4 of 5 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

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

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What's changing

Note

The 207 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,113,008, US 9,494,345, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

later US patent cites this one

That is below the median 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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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