Term ends Apr 28, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 28, 2036
Held by Acera, LLC
Filed Oct 28, 2016 as application 15/338,138 · Granted May 7, 2019
Base term plus 182 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
Oct 28, 2016
Oct 28, 2016
Term ends
Apr 28, 2037
Apr 28, 2037
Granted
May 7, 2019
May 7, 2019
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
182
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.
3
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 182 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 Oct 28, 2016, when this application, 15/338,138, was filed | Oct 28, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +182 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 28, 2037 | 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 | Apr 28, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,281,709 | this patent Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| US 11,016,282 | In force Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
| US 11,525,999 | In force Oct 2036 | Oct 2036 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2017 Reel 42187, frame 717 | Root, Thomas V.; Cook, Michael; Davis, Thomas; Epstein, Michael S.; Leo, David | Acera, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 29, 2017 Reel 42187, frame 735 | Jones, Carlton | Fraen Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 19, 2017 Reel 42437, frame 105 | Fraen Corporation | Acera, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 19, 2017 Reel 42506, frame 680 | Acera, Inc. | Acera, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2019 Reel 48298, frame 465 | Jones, Carlton; Leo, David | Fraen Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 11, 2019 Reel 48298, frame 515 | Root, Thomas; Cook, Michael; Davis, Thomas; Epstein, Michael S. | Acera Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2037
Term ends Apr 28, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 182 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
19
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2019 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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