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Term ends Jun 10, 2037 · High confidence

Filed Oct 17, 2016 as application 15/295,995 · Granted Jul 16, 2019
Base term plus 236 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2016 2037
Clock starts
Oct 17, 2016
Term ends
Jun 10, 2037
Granted
Jul 16, 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
236
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.
4
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 236 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 17, 2016, when this application, 15/295,995, was filedOct 17, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+236 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 10, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 10, 2037High confidence

This family

US 10,353,388this patent
Jun 2037
Jun 2037
Application PCT/US2017/051998PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,353,892Lapsed on the fee record
Jun 2026
Jun 2026
Application 17/825,295Abandoned
not computed
not computed
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Oct 17, 2016
Reel 40035, frame 782
Schubert, Martin; Grundmann, Michael; Biffle, Clifford; Watson, PhilipX Development LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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