Term ended Dec 12, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 3, 2025
Filed Jan 18, 2017 as application 15/408,734 · Granted Aug 20, 2019
Base term plus 343 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Dec 12, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jan 3, 2005
Jan 3, 2005
Term ended
Dec 12, 2025
Dec 12, 2025
Granted
Aug 20, 2019
Aug 20, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
343
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 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it 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 343 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Jan 3, 2005, when application 11/028,476, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 18, 2017) | Jan 3, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +343 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 12, 2025 | 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 | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 12, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,317,587 | In force Apr 2029 | Apr 2029 |
| US 9,646,082 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 9,177,050 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 9,552,420 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 9,367,604 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 10,387,462 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 2017 Reel 41770, frame 295 | Al-kofahi, Khalid | Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 28, 2017 Reel 41770, frame 325 | Moulinier, Isabelle | Thomson Reuters Applications Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 28, 2017 Reel 41770, frame 423 | Liao, Wenhui; Thomson Reuters Applications Inc.; Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc. | Thomson Reuters Global Resources | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 24, 2017 Reel 43080, frame 357 | Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc. | Thomson Reuters Global Resources | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 8, 2019 Reel 48814, frame 898 | Thomson Reuters Applications Inc. | Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 8, 2019 Reel 49690, frame 914 | Thomson Reuters Global Resources | Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company | Change of Name |
| Mar 5, 2020 Reel 52028, frame 380 | Thomson Reuters Global Resources Unlimited Company | Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 343 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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