Term ends Dec 6, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 28, 2034
Held by Walmart Apollo, LLC
Filed Jun 2, 2016 as application 15/101,379 · Granted Sep 3, 2019
Base term plus 373 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Nov 28, 2014
Nov 28, 2014
Term ends
Dec 6, 2035
Dec 6, 2035
Granted
Sep 3, 2019
Sep 3, 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
373
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.
17
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 373 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Nov 28, 2014, when application PCT/US2014/067817, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 2, 2016) | Nov 28, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +373 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 6, 2035 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 6, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,121,133 | In force Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| Application PCT/US2011/055984 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,715,682 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2014/062929 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2014/067817 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2015/010674 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,402,776 | this patent Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| US 11,188,956 | In force Nov 2035 | Nov 2035 |
8 of 17 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 2018 Reel 46091, frame 894 | Grabovski, Vadim; Abboud, Issa; Huber, Craig | Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 14, 2018 Reel 46092, frame 61 | Grabovski, Vadim; Abboud, Issa; Collier, John | Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 14, 2018 Reel 46094, frame 560 | Grabovski, Vadim; Abboud, Issa; Venable, Chris | Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2018 Reel 46459, frame 9 | Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | Walmart Apollo, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 3, 2018 Reel 46703, frame 1 | Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | Walmart Apollo, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Application Number 15284853 to Application Number 15284835 Previously Recorded on Reel 046459 Frame 0009. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2035
Term ends Dec 6, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 373 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
27
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% 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
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.