Term ends Apr 3, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 23, 2038
Held by Vericool World, LLC
Filed Mar 6, 2018 as application 15/913,699 · Granted Apr 14, 2020
Base term plus 28 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2018
2038
Clock starts
Feb 23, 2018
Feb 23, 2018
Term ends
Apr 3, 2037
Apr 3, 2037
Granted
Apr 14, 2020
Apr 14, 2020
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
28
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 10,597,219.
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.
11
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 28 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 Feb 23, 2018, when application 15/904,168, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 6, 2018) | Feb 23, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +28 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 23, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,597,219) | capped to Apr 3, 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 | Apr 3, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,046,901 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| Application PCT/US2018/018698 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,597,219 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| US 10,618,690 | this patent Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| Application PCT/US2018/021152 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 16/021,400 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/509,276 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/789,060 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 2018 Reel 45949, frame 334 | Jobe, Darrell | Vericool, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 18, 2021 Reel 57816, frame 343 | Vericool, Inc. | Fish & Richardson P.C. | Lien |
| Dec 28, 2021 Reel 58493, frame 967 | Fish & Richardson PC | Vericool, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 23, 2022 Reel 59373, frame 594 | Vericool, Inc. | Vcool (Assignment for Benefit of Creditors) LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 23, 2022 Reel 59483, frame 159 | Vcool (Assignment for Benefit of Creditors) LLC | Vericool World, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 13, 2023 Reel 62389, frame 186 | Vericool World, LLC | Storopack, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Apr 18, 2023 Reel 63361, frame 948 | Vericool World, LLC | Storopack, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Feb 6, 2026 Reel 73723, frame 610 | Storopack, Inc. | Vericool World LLC | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2037
Term ends Apr 3, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 28 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 10,597,219.
Citations
16
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% 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.