Term ends Aug 12, 2037 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 28, 2037
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Snowflake Inc.
Filed Dec 10, 2020 as application 17/118,201 · Granted Apr 4, 2023
Base term plus 106 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Apr 28, 2017
Apr 28, 2017
Term ends
Aug 12, 2037
Aug 12, 2037
Granted
Apr 4, 2023
Apr 4, 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
106
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.
10
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 106 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 28, 2017, when application 15/582,071, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 10, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Apr 28, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +106 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 12, 2037 | 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 | Aug 12, 2037 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 11,615,117 | In force May 2038 | May 2038 |
| US 11,593,403 | In force Jun 2037 | Jun 2037 |
| US 11,615,118 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| US 11,593,404 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| US 11,630,850 | In force no later than Aug 2037 | no later than Aug 2037 |
| US 11,620,313 | this patent Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US 11,675,815 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| US 11,983,198 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 2020 Reel 54610, frame 327 | Funke, Florian Andreas; Povinec, Peter; Cruanes, Thierry; Dageville, Benoit | Snowflake Computing, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 10, 2020 Reel 54679, frame 197 | Snowflake Computing, Inc. | Snowflake Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Aug 2037
Term ends Aug 12, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 106 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
18
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2023 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.