Term ends Feb 11, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 14, 2033
Held by 9224-5489 Quebec Inc.
Filed Nov 23, 2016 as application 15/359,700 · Granted Nov 24, 2020
Base term plus 334 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2034
Clock starts
Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013
Term ends
Feb 11, 2034
Feb 11, 2034
Granted
Nov 24, 2020
Nov 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
334
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 9,519,693, to Feb 11, 2034. 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.
18
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 334 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 Mar 14, 2013, when application 13/804,637, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 23, 2016) | Mar 14, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +334 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 11, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,519,693) | resolves to Feb 11, 2034, 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 | Feb 11, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 61/658,171 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,519,693 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 10,845,952 | this patent Feb 2034 | Feb 2034 |
| Application 16/664,893 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/664,897 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/664,895 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,513,660 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| Application 17/994,573 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 2017 Reel 41606, frame 904 | Audet, Mathieu, M.; Cassistat, François, M. | 9224-5489 Quebec Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 4, 2019 Reel 49086, frame 791 | Maya-Systems Inc. | Maya-Systems Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Jun 19, 2019 Reel 51489, frame 698 | Maya-Systems Inc. | 9224-5489 Quebec Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Jun 29, 2019 Reel 50133, frame 885 | Maya-Systems Inc. | 9224-5489 Quebec Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Data Previously Recorded at Reel: 049086 Frame: 0791. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment. |
| Nov 4, 2019 Reel 50917, frame 626 | Audet, Mathieu, MR | 9224-5489 Quebec Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2034
Term ends Feb 11, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 334 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 9,519,693, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
1
later US patent cites 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.