Term ends Jul 31, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 13, 2040
Filed May 13, 2020 as application 15/931,531 · Granted Aug 30, 2022
Base term plus 79 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
May 13, 2020
May 13, 2020
Term ends
Jul 31, 2040
Jul 31, 2040
Granted
Aug 30, 2022
Aug 30, 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
79
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.
3
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 79 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 May 13, 2020, when this application, 15/931,531, was filed | May 13, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +79 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 31, 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 | Jul 31, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,431,092 | this patent Jul 2040 | Jul 2040 |
| US 11,716,154 | In force May 2040 | May 2040 |
| US 12,615,097 | In force Sep 2040 | Sep 2040 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 2020 Reel 54644, frame 749 | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Bank Of America, N.a. | Security Agreement |
| Feb 18, 2022 Reel 59052, frame 192 | Triaire, Pascal | Stmicroelectronics (Alps) SAS | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 18, 2022 Reel 59052, frame 390 | Jacquet, David Francois; Pearson, Paul Lee; Gens, Marc | Stmicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 23, 2022 Reel 59077, frame 398 | Stmicroelectronics (Alps) SAS | Stmicroelectronics International N.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 23, 2022 Reel 59077, frame 522 | Stmicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS | Stmicroelectronics International N.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 25, 2022 Reel 59099, frame 423 | Stmicroelectronics International N.V. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 14, 2025 Reel 70631, frame 644 | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Certificate of Conversion (State of Delaware to State of Texas; New File No.: 805421124; Filed : 02-14-2024) |
| Feb 18, 2025 Reel 70252, frame 216 | Bank Of America, N.a. | Space Exploration Technologies Corp. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2040
Term ends Jul 31, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 79 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
8
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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