Also listed on Quantapore, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 20, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 8, 2035
Held by Switchback Systems, Inc.
Filed Jan 26, 2018 as application 15/881,593 · Granted Mar 24, 2020
Base term plus 73 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Oct 8, 2015
Oct 8, 2015
Term ends
Dec 20, 2035
Dec 20, 2035
Granted
Mar 24, 2020
Mar 24, 2020
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
73
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,885,079, to Dec 20, 2035. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
4
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 73 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 8, 2015, when application 14/878,292, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 26, 2018) | Oct 8, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +73 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 20, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,885,079) | resolves to Dec 20, 2035, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 20, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,885,079 | In force May 2036 | May 2036 |
| US 10,597,712 | this patent Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| Application 16/795,388 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 17/651,225 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 2018 Reel 44745, frame 151 | Huber, Martin | Quantapore, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 22, 2024 Reel 69387, frame 105 | Quantapore, Inc. | Switchback Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2035
Term ends Dec 20, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 73 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,885,079, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2020 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.