Term ends Sep 29, 2032 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends May 29, 2032
Held by Iscar, Ltd.
Filed Apr 27, 2018 as application 15/964,825 · Granted Oct 27, 2020
Base term plus 123 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
May 29, 2012
May 29, 2012
Term ends
Sep 29, 2032
Sep 29, 2032
Granted
Oct 27, 2020
Oct 27, 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
123
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 9,259,788, US 9,993,877, to Sep 29, 2032. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
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 123 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 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 May 29, 2012, when application 13/482,761, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 27, 2018); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | May 29, 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 | +123 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 29, 2032 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,259,788, US 9,993,877) | resolves to Sep 29, 2032, no earlier than this term, so no change | Medium 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 | Sep 29, 2032 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,259,788 | In force Dec 2033 | Dec 2033 |
| US 9,993,877 | In force no later than Jun 2034 | no later than Jun 2034 |
| US 10,814,400 | this patent Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
3 of 4 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 27, 2018 Reel 45656, frame 502 | Malka, Asaf; Gal, Dmitry; Athad, Shimon | Iscar, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Free plan: 3 watched companies. Pro: unlimited.
Alerts on its grants, lapses and transfers.
What's changing
Sep 2032
Term ends Sep 29, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 123 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 9,259,788, US 9,993,877, 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.