Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 20, 2023 (Bank of America, N.A.).
Term ends Dec 31, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 31, 2040
Held by SharkNinja Operating LLC
Filed Dec 31, 2020 as application 17/139,467 · Granted May 9, 2023
Base term plus 161 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Dec 31, 2020
Dec 31, 2020
Term ends
Dec 31, 2040
Dec 31, 2040
Granted
May 9, 2023
May 9, 2023
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
161
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 11,324,358.
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.
28
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 161 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
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 31, 2020, when this application, 17/139,467, was filed | Dec 31, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +161 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 10, 2041 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,324,358) | capped to Dec 31, 2040 | 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 | Dec 31, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 12,064,056 | In force Dec 2040 | Dec 2040 |
| US 11,925,298 | In force no later than Aug 2042 | no later than Aug 2042 |
| US 11,641,978 | this patent Dec 2040 | Dec 2040 |
| US 12,016,493 | In force Dec 2040 | Dec 2040 |
| US 11,154,163 | In force Dec 2040 | Dec 2040 |
| US 11,871,765 | In force Jun 2042 | Jun 2042 |
| US 11,324,358 | In force Dec 2040 | Dec 2040 |
| US 12,016,496 | In force Jun 2041 | Jun 2041 |
8 of 28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2021 Reel 57202, frame 274 | O'loughlin, Nicholas Michael; Deng, Xu Sheng; Zhang, Ting Hua; Power, Michelle Hilary; Shi, Ming Li | SharkNinja Operating LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 20, 2023 Reel 64600, frame 98 | SharkNinja Operating LLC | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
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What's changing
Dec 2040
Term ends Dec 31, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 161 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 11,324,358.
Citations
10
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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