Also listed on APS Technology, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Term ends Apr 16, 2035 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by APS Technology 1 LLC

Filed Nov 10, 2015 as application 14/937,749 · Granted Dec 24, 2019

Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Apr 16, 2035

2015 2035

Clock starts
Nov 10, 2015

Term ends
Apr 16, 2035

Granted
Dec 24, 2019

base term 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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

Capped

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,069,746.

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.

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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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

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Step	Input	Date after this step	Confidence
Base term, 20 years from filing	Clock starts Nov 10, 2015, when this application, 14/937,749, was filed	Nov 10, 2035	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,069,746)	capped to Apr 16, 2035	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	Apr 16, 2035	High confidence

This family

Application PCT/US2015/060032	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 10,516,617	this patent Apr 2035	Apr 2035

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
Nov 10, 2015 Reel 37006, frame 237	Anderson, Chris; Ballif, Jeffrey G.	APS Technology 1 LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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What's changing

Apr 2035

Term ends Apr 16, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Disclaimer cap

This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,069,746.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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