Also listed on École Polytechnique, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jan 12, 2032 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 12, 2032
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Filed May 19, 2017 as application 15/600,597 · Granted Mar 31, 2020
Base term plus 496 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Jan 12, 2012
Jan 12, 2012
Term ends
Jan 12, 2032
Jan 12, 2032
Granted
Mar 31, 2020
Mar 31, 2020
base term
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
496
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 9,655,779.
1 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
5
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 496 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jan 12, 2012, when application 13/349,353, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 19, 2017); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 12, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +496 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 22, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,655,779) | capped to Jan 12, 2032 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 12, 2032 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,101,445 | In force Nov 2033 | Nov 2033 |
| US 9,655,779 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| US 10,603,214 | this patent Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| US 11,712,371 | In force Nov 2033 | Nov 2033 |
| US 12,589,030 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 2017 Reel 43391, frame 728 | Bigler, Stephane; Stergiopulos, Nikolaos | Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jan 2032
Term ends Jan 12, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 496 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 9,655,779.
Citations
28
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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