Term ends Apr 12, 2038 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Newfrey LLC

Filed Mar 10, 2020 as application 16/814,594 · Granted Nov 2, 2021

Base term plus 42 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Apr 12, 2038

2018 2038

Clock starts
Mar 1, 2018

Term ends
Apr 12, 2038

Granted
Nov 2, 2021

base term patent term adjustment fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know

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 42 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 Mar 1, 2018, when application 15/909,057, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 10, 2020)	Mar 1, 2038	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+42 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Apr 12, 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	Apr 12, 2038	High confidence

This family

US 10,704,577	In force Jan 2038	Jan 2038
US 10,590,968	In force Mar 2038	Mar 2038
US 10,894,516	In force Oct 2037	Oct 2037
Application PCT/US2019/020321	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 11,162,520	this patent Apr 2038	Apr 2038

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 10, 2020 Reel 52071, frame 379	Benedetti, Steven M.	Newfrey LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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Alerts on its grants, lapses and transfers.

What's changing

Apr 2038

Term ends Apr 12, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 42 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patent cites this one

That is below the median 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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