Term ends Oct 18, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 18, 2038
Held by Fortinet, Inc.
Filed Feb 14, 2022 as application 17/671,056 · Granted Feb 6, 2024
Base term plus 30 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2018
2038
Clock starts
Sep 18, 2018
Sep 18, 2018
Term ends
Oct 18, 2038
Oct 18, 2038
Granted
Feb 6, 2024
Feb 6, 2024
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
30
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.
80
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 30 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 Sep 18, 2018, when application 16/134,794, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 14, 2022) | Sep 18, 2038 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +30 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 18, 2038 | 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 | Oct 18, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,581,891 | In force Sep 2038 | Sep 2038 |
| US 11,153,339 | In force Sep 2038 | Sep 2038 |
| US 11,677,772 | In force Sep 2038 | Sep 2038 |
| US 11,792,284 | In force Sep 2038 | Sep 2038 |
| US 11,741,238 | In force Sep 2038 | Sep 2038 |
| US 11,894,984 | this patent Oct 2038 | Oct 2038 |
| US 11,765,249 | In force Sep 2038 | Sep 2038 |
| US 11,785,104 | In force Sep 2038 | Sep 2038 |
8 of 80 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 2022 Reel 59004, frame 565 | Erlingsson, Úlfar; Chen, Yijou | Lacework, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 7, 2024 Reel 69113, frame 745 | Lacework, Inc. | Fortinet, Inc. | Merger |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2038
Term ends Oct 18, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 30 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
27
later US patents cite this one
Fewer than half of the utility patents granted in 2024 in our data have been cited yet, so we show the count and do not rank on it.
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.