Term ends Mar 11, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 11, 2035
Held by Grace Engineering Corp.
Filed Dec 9, 2016 as application 15/374,112 · Granted Oct 9, 2018
Base term plus 12 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Mar 11, 2015
Mar 11, 2015
Term ends
Mar 11, 2035
Mar 11, 2035
Granted
Oct 9, 2018
Oct 9, 2018
base term
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 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.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,523,556, US 9,528,796.
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 12 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 Mar 11, 2015, when application 14/644,718, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 9, 2016) | Mar 11, 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 | Mar 23, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,523,556, US 9,528,796) | capped to Mar 11, 2035 | 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 | Mar 11, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,528,796 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 10,094,638 | this patent Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 10,302,393 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2023 | May 2023 |
| US 10,415,931 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
| US 10,648,770 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| Application 16/389,126 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2035
Term ends Mar 11, 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
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,523,556, US 9,528,796.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.