Term ends May 12, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 11, 2035
Held by The Procter & Gamble Company
Filed Jun 11, 2015 as application 14/736,507 · Granted Mar 27, 2018
Base term plus 371 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2015
2036
Clock starts
Jun 11, 2015
Jun 11, 2015
Term ends
May 12, 2036
May 12, 2036
Granted
Mar 27, 2018
Mar 27, 2018
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
371
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,924,875.
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.
32
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 371 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jun 11, 2015, when this application, 14/736,507, was filed | Jun 11, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +371 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 16, 2036 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,924,875) | capped to May 12, 2036 | 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 | May 12, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,925,362 | this patent May 2036 | May 2036 |
| US 9,924,875 | In force May 2036 | May 2036 |
| US 9,928,591 | In force May 2036 | May 2036 |
| US 10,188,192 | In force Sep 2037 | Sep 2037 |
| Application 14/736,563 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,522,101 | In force Jun 2035 | Jun 2035 |
| US 10,314,378 | In force Jul 2037 | Jul 2037 |
| US 11,083,880 | In force Jul 2036 | Jul 2036 |
8 of 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 2016 Reel 37452, frame 222 | Rabe, Thomas Elliot; Sherman, Faiz Feisal; Bush, Stephan Gary; Meschkat, Stephan James Andreas | The Procter & Gamble Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
May 2036
Term ends May 12, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 371 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,924,875.
Citations
42
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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