Also listed on École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jan 12, 2032 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 12, 2032
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Filed Aug 5, 2015 as application 14/819,286 · Granted May 23, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Jan 12, 2012
Jan 12, 2012
Term ends
Jan 12, 2032
Jan 12, 2032
Granted
May 23, 2017
May 23, 2017
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
5
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 12, 2012, when application 13/349,353, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 5, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 12, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 12, 2032 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,101,445 | In force Nov 2033 | Nov 2033 |
| US 9,655,779 | this patent Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| US 10,603,214 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| US 11,712,371 | In force Nov 2033 | Nov 2033 |
| US 12,589,030 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2015 Reel 36284, frame 21 | Bigler, Stephane; Stergiopulos, Nikolaos | Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2032
Term ends Jan 12, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
25
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2017 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.