Term ends Jan 10, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 27, 2036
Held by Cameron Solutions, Inc.
Filed Jun 27, 2016 as application 15/193,872 · Granted Nov 12, 2019
Base term plus 252 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
Jun 27, 2016
Jun 27, 2016
Term ends
Jan 10, 2037
Jan 10, 2037
Granted
Nov 12, 2019
Nov 12, 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
252
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,328,360, US 10,335,708, US 10,370,264, US 10,478,745.
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.
10
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 252 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Jun 27, 2016, when this application, 15/193,872, was filed | Jun 27, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +252 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 6, 2037 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,328,360, US 10,335,708, US 10,370,264, US 10,478,745) | capped to Jan 10, 2037 | 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 | Jan 10, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,328,360 | In force Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
| US 10,471,366 | this patent Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
| US 10,335,708 | In force Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
| US 10,478,745 | In force Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
| US 10,370,264 | In force Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
| Application PCT/US2017/039490 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,864,456 | In force Jun 2036 | Jun 2036 |
| US 11,083,974 | In force Nov 2036 | Nov 2036 |
8 of 10 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 28, 2016 Reel 39026, frame 14 | Zheng, Z. Frank; King, Christopher Stephen; Nemmara, Harihara V.; Henley, Matthew S. | Cameron Solutions, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jan 2037
Term ends Jan 10, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 252 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,328,360, US 10,335,708, US 10,370,264, US 10,478,745.
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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