Term ends May 23, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 23, 2037
Held by Uv-Concepts Inc.
Filed Apr 22, 2019 as application 16/390,536 · Granted Jun 15, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
May 23, 2017
May 23, 2017
Term ends
May 23, 2037
May 23, 2037
Granted
Jun 15, 2021
Jun 15, 2021
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 23, 2017, when application 15/602,771, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 22, 2019) | May 23, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | May 23, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,272,167 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 11,033,643 | this patent May 2037 | May 2037 |
| Application 17/345,417 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 18/316,842 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 2021 Reel 55291, frame 77 | Starkweather, Jeremy; Ylizarde, Jason; Wynne, John; Hilt, Pat; Taylor, Thomas | Uv-Concepts Inc. | Confirmatory Assignment |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2037
Term ends May 23, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
14
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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.