Term ends Jul 31, 2039 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 1, 2039
Filed Apr 1, 2019 as application 16/371,996 · Granted Jul 26, 2022
Base term plus 154 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2019
2039
Clock starts
Apr 1, 2019
Apr 1, 2019
Term ends
Jul 31, 2039
Jul 31, 2039
Granted
Jul 26, 2022
Jul 26, 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
154
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 11,152,807.
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.
7
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 154 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Apr 1, 2019, when this application, 16/371,996, was filed | Apr 1, 2039 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +154 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 2, 2039 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,152,807) | capped to Jul 31, 2039 | 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 | Jul 31, 2039 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,430,165 | In force Jul 2037 | Jul 2037 |
| US 11,398,740 | this patent Jul 2039 | Jul 2039 |
| US 11,152,807 | In force Jul 2039 | Jul 2039 |
| US 11,210,069 | In force Apr 2036 | Apr 2036 |
| US 11,726,751 | In force Nov 2035 | Nov 2035 |
| US 12,217,028 | In force no later than Nov 2035 | no later than Nov 2035 |
| Application 19/041,511 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2019 Reel 48767, frame 389 | Camiolo, Jean; Lorin, Christophe | Stmicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2039
Term ends Jul 31, 2039. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 154 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 11,152,807.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median 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
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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.