Term ends Mar 28, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 19, 2040
Held by CDW LLC
Filed Jul 8, 2020 as application 16/923,996 · Granted Jan 11, 2022
Base term plus 9 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Mar 19, 2020
Mar 19, 2020
Term ends
Mar 28, 2040
Mar 28, 2040
Granted
Jan 11, 2022
Jan 11, 2022
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
9
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.
14
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 9 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 19, 2020, when application 16/823,849, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 8, 2020) | Mar 19, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +9 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 28, 2040 | 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 | Mar 28, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,789,846 | In force Mar 2040 | Mar 2040 |
| US 11,217,098 | In force Mar 2040 | Mar 2040 |
| US 11,222,536 | In force Mar 2040 | Mar 2040 |
| US 11,373,530 | In force Mar 2040 | Mar 2040 |
| US 11,222,538 | In force Apr 2040 | Apr 2040 |
| US 11,348,461 | In force Mar 2040 | Mar 2040 |
| US 11,222,537 | this patent Mar 2040 | Mar 2040 |
| Application PCT/US2020/041759 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 2020 Reel 53901, frame 227 | Vallance, Colin R.; Robinson, Michael Alan; Weinberg, Forrest; Nair, Sankar | CDW LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 24, 2021 Reel 58205, frame 813 | Vallance, Colin R.; Robinson, Mike A.; Weinberg, Forrest; Nair, Sankar | CDW LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2040
Term ends Mar 28, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 9 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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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.