Term ends Sep 16, 2038 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by B/E Aerospace, Inc.

Filed Mar 25, 2019 as application 16/363,710 · Granted Feb 2, 2021

Base term plus 128 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Sep 16, 2038

2018 2038

Clock starts
May 11, 2018

Term ends
Sep 16, 2038

Granted
Feb 2, 2021

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

128

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

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.

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 128 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 May 11, 2018, when application 15/977,753, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 25, 2019)	May 11, 2038	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+128 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Sep 16, 2038	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	None on record	no cap applied	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	Sep 16, 2038	High confidence

This family

US 10,822,088	In force May 2039	May 2039
US 10,906,646	this patent Sep 2038	Sep 2038
US D906,946	In force Jan 2036	Jan 2036
US D906,227	In force Dec 2035	Dec 2035
US D906,228	In force Dec 2035	Dec 2035
US D906,944	In force Jan 2036	Jan 2036

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
Jul 3, 2019 Reel 49661, frame 557	Hakla, Haytham; Pozzi, Alexander N.	B/E Aerospace, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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What's changing

Sep 2038

Term ends Sep 16, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 128 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2021 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.

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