Term ends Oct 13, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 22, 2040
Held by Grace Engineering Corp.
Filed Feb 3, 2020 as application 16/780,262 · Granted Mar 29, 2022
Base term plus 265 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Jan 22, 2020
Jan 22, 2020
Term ends
Oct 13, 2040
Oct 13, 2040
Granted
Mar 29, 2022
Mar 29, 2022
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
265
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.
8
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 265 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 Jan 22, 2020, when application 16/749,153, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 3, 2020) | Jan 22, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +265 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 13, 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 | Oct 13, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,262,164 | In force Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| US 11,287,220 | this patent Oct 2040 | Oct 2040 |
| Application 17/533,466 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,619,468 | In force Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| US 11,852,442 | In force Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| US 12,276,479 | In force no later than Jan 2040 | no later than Jan 2040 |
| US 12,656,082 | In force Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| Application 19/666,969 | Pending 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 3, 2020 Reel 51702, frame 823 | Grace, Nathaniel E. | Grace Engineering Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Oct 2040
Term ends Oct 13, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 265 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2022 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.