Term ends Apr 18, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 22, 2030
Held by GE Precision Healthcare LLC
Filed Sep 21, 2016 as application 15/272,336 · Granted Dec 18, 2018
Base term plus 117 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2031
Clock starts
Dec 22, 2010
Dec 22, 2010
Term ends
Apr 18, 2031
Apr 18, 2031
Granted
Dec 18, 2018
Dec 18, 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
117
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,464,741, to Apr 18, 2031. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
2
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 117 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Dec 22, 2010, when application 12/976,943, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 21, 2016) | Dec 22, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +117 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 18, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,464,741) | resolves to Apr 18, 2031, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Apr 18, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,464,741 | In force Apr 2032 | Apr 2032 |
| US 10,156,307 | this patent Apr 2031 | Apr 2031 |
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 21, 2016 Reel 39822, frame 61 | Lewis, Peter D.; Whitaker, Carl T.; Phipps, Riley M. | Value Plastics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 21, 2016 Reel 39822, frame 77 | Value Plastics, Inc. | Nordson Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 9, 2016 Reel 40699, frame 721 | Nordson Corporation | General Electric Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 8, 2025 Reel 71225, frame 218 | General Electric Company | GE Precision Healthcare LLC | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2031
Term ends Apr 18, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 117 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,464,741, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
19
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.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.