Term ends Jan 29, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 30, 2034
Held by Boston Dynamics, Inc.
Filed Dec 30, 2014 as application 14/585,542 · Granted Nov 22, 2016
Base term plus 30 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 2014
Term ends
Jan 29, 2035
Jan 29, 2035
Granted
Nov 22, 2016
Nov 22, 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
30
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.
6
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 30 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 Dec 30, 2014, when this application, 14/585,542, was filed | Dec 30, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +30 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 29, 2035 | 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 29, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,499,218 | this patent Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| US 10,246,151 | In force no later than Jun 2035 | no later than Jun 2035 |
| US 11,225,294 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US 11,654,985 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 12,365,407 | In force Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| Application 19/246,233 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 2014 Reel 34599, frame 967 | Stephens, Benjamin | Google Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 11, 2017 Reel 43811, frame 967 | Google, Inc. | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 6, 2017 Reel 44144, frame 1 | Google Inc. | Google LLC | Change of Name |
| Oct 5, 2021 Reel 57711, frame 202 | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Oct 27, 2021 Reel 57964, frame 415 | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Boston Dynamics, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Remove Applications Numbers 63127573 and 11/302759 and the City of the Assignee Previously Recorded at Reel: 057111 Frame: 0202. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Mar 4, 2024 Reel 68092, frame 502 | Google Inc. | Google LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the the Removal of the Incorrectly Recorded Application Numbers 14/149802 and 15/419313 Previously Recorded at Reel: 44144 Frame: 1. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Change of Name. |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Jan 2035
Term ends Jan 29, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 30 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
41
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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