Term ends Jul 24, 2041 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 29, 2040
Held by Align Technology, Inc.
Filed Jul 29, 2020 as application 16/942,616 · Granted Sep 19, 2023
Base term plus 360 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2041
Clock starts
Jul 29, 2020
Jul 29, 2020
Term ends
Jul 24, 2041
Jul 24, 2041
Granted
Sep 19, 2023
Sep 19, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
360
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
49
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 360 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are 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 Jul 29, 2020, when this application, 16/942,616, was filed | Jul 29, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +360 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 24, 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 24, 2041 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,292,617 | In force Nov 2029 | Nov 2029 |
| US 8,896,592 | In force Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
| US 9,403,238 | In force Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 9,277,972 | In force Apr 2029 | Apr 2029 |
| US 8,948,482 | In force Feb 2033 | Feb 2033 |
| US 9,364,296 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| US 9,256,710 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 9,214,014 | In force Nov 2032 | Nov 2032 |
8 of 49 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 9, 2020 Reel 54598, frame 621 | Green, Eran | Align Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 9, 2020 Reel 54598, frame 487 | Shalev, Ariel; Ginzburg, Zakhar; Durban, Matthew; Gorfinkel, Roee; Saphier, Ofer; Verker, Tal; Makmel, Nir; Ishay, Eran; Levy, Raphael | Align Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 14, 2023 Reel 64674, frame 764 | Shalev, Ariel; Ginzburg, Zakhar; Durban, Matthew; Gorfinkel, Roee; Saphier, Ofer; Verker, Tal; Makmel, Nir; Ishay, Eran; Levy, Raphael | Align Technology, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Signature Page of Inventor Roee Gorfinkel Previously Recorded at Reel: 054598 Frame: 0487. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
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What's changing
Jul 2041
Term ends Jul 24, 2041. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 360 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
79
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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