Term ends Apr 16, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 30, 2035
Held by Align Technology, Inc.
Filed Feb 10, 2020 as application 16/786,353 · Granted Nov 14, 2023
Base term plus 807 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2037
Clock starts
Jan 30, 2015
Jan 30, 2015
Term ends
Apr 16, 2037
Apr 16, 2037
Granted
Nov 14, 2023
Nov 14, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
807
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.
16
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 807 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 Jan 30, 2015, when applications 14/609,970, 14/610,027, 14/610,060 and 14/610,108, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Feb 10, 2020) | Jan 30, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +807 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 16, 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 16, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,642,198 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 11,154,382 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| US 10,758,323 | In force May 2036 | May 2036 |
| US 11,497,586 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| US 10,555,792 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| US 11,813,135 | this patent Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| US 11,648,089 | In force Feb 2036 | Feb 2036 |
| US 11,751,978 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 2023 Reel 64813, frame 166 | Kopelman, Avi; Choi, Jeeyoung | Align Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2037
Term ends Apr 16, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 807 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
20
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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.