Term ends Feb 17, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 14, 2031
Held by Phygen, LLC
Filed Oct 24, 2016 as application 15/333,012 · Granted Oct 8, 2019
Base term plus 126 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2032
Clock starts
Oct 14, 2011
Oct 14, 2011
Term ends
Feb 17, 2032
Feb 17, 2032
Granted
Oct 8, 2019
Oct 8, 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
126
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.
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 126 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 Oct 14, 2011, when application 13/274,243, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 24, 2016) | Oct 14, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +126 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 17, 2032 | 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 | Feb 17, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,510,867 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| US 10,433,875 | this patent Feb 2032 | Feb 2032 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2032
Term ends Feb 17, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 126 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
21
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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.