Term ends Sep 18, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 6, 2035
Held by SK Hynix, Inc.
Filed Sep 6, 2015 as application 14/846,812 · Granted Jan 9, 2018
Base term plus 12 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Sep 6, 2015
Sep 6, 2015
Term ends
Sep 18, 2035
Sep 18, 2035
Granted
Jan 9, 2018
Jan 9, 2018
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
12
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.
12
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 12 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 Sep 6, 2015, when this application, 14/846,812, was filed | Sep 6, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +12 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 18, 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 | Sep 18, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,502,639 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 8,959,250 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 10,205,089 | In force Jun 2034 | Jun 2034 |
| US 9,786,840 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 9,865,319 | this patent Sep 2035 | Sep 2035 |
| US 9,859,490 | In force Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| US 10,490,741 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 9,865,806 | In force Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
8 of 12 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 22, 2015 Reel 36622, frame 760 | Kim, Yang-kon; Lee, Bo-mi; Choi, Won-joon; Kim, Guk-cheon; Lim, Jong-koo | SK Hynix, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2035
Term ends Sep 18, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 12 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
18
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 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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