Lapsed Jan 16, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Facense Ltd.

Filed Jun 14, 2016 as application 15/182,566 · Granted Jan 16, 2018

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 24 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Jan 16, 2026

2016 2036

Clock starts
Jun 14, 2016

No longer in force
Jan 16, 2026

Granted
Jan 16, 2018

Term would have run to
Jul 8, 2036

base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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

Days of term adjustment

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

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

1 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.

Family applications on record here

Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Jul 8, 2036: its 20-year base term plus 24 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jun 14, 2016, when this application, 15/182,566, was filed	Jun 14, 2036	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+24 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jul 8, 2036	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	1 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Jan 16, 2026	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jan 16, 2026	High confidence

This family

US 10,165,949	In force Mar 2037	Mar 2037
US 9,867,546	this patent Jan 2026	Jan 2026
Application 15/231,276	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 10,113,913	Grace period ended Dec 2036	Dec 2036
US 10,136,856	In force Jun 2037	Jun 2037
US 10,523,852	In force Dec 2036	Dec 2036
US 10,151,636	In force Jun 2036	Jun 2036
US 10,045,726	Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026	Aug 2026

8 of 35 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
Jul 14, 2016 Reel 39154, frame 807	Tzvieli, Arie; Frank, Ari M.; Thieberger, Gil	Facense Ltd.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

What's changing

Note

The 24 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

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

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

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