Term ends Jul 17, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 17, 2029
No current holder resolved from the recorded chain.
Filed Feb 17, 2020 as application 16/792,735 · Granted Jul 5, 2022
Base term plus 207 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
Jul 17, 2009
Jul 17, 2009
Term ends
Jul 17, 2029
Jul 17, 2029
Granted
Jul 5, 2022
Jul 5, 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
207
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,508,064.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
18
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 207 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 1 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 Jul 17, 2009, when application 12/505,342, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 17, 2020) | Jul 17, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +207 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 9, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,508,064) | capped to Jul 17, 2029 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 17, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 12/505,342 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/839,294 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 13/108,837 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,460,311 | In force Jun 2032 | Jun 2032 |
| US 9,508,064 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| US 9,679,287 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| Application 16/667,088 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,379,810 | this patent Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
8 of 18 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Jul 2029
Term ends Jul 17, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 207 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,508,064.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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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.