Term ends Mar 8, 2041 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 25, 2040
Filed Jun 25, 2020 as application 16/912,476 · Granted Mar 14, 2023
Base term plus 256 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2041
Clock starts
Jun 25, 2020
Jun 25, 2020
Term ends
Mar 8, 2041
Mar 8, 2041
Granted
Mar 14, 2023
Mar 14, 2023
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
256
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 256 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 Jun 25, 2020, when this application, 16/912,476, was filed | Jun 25, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +256 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 8, 2041 | 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 8, 2041 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,484,580 | Term ended Apr 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| US 7,796,174 | In force Nov 2028 | Nov 2028 |
| US 10,598,924 | In force Jan 2038 | Jan 2038 |
| US 10,271,179 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 11,598,628 | In force Jan 2042 | Jan 2042 |
| US 11,606,549 | this patent Mar 2041 | Mar 2041 |
| Application 63/251,474 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 12,613,132 | In force Apr 2043 | Apr 2043 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2020 Reel 53047, frame 43 | Harwit, Alex | Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 17, 2024 Reel 67134, frame 901 | Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. | BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2041
Term ends Mar 8, 2041. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 256 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
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