Term ends Jun 18, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 14, 2027
Held by DataShapes, Inc.
Filed Oct 1, 2021 as application 17/449,757 · Granted Apr 23, 2024
Base term plus 309 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2028
Clock starts
Aug 14, 2007
Aug 14, 2007
Term ends
Jun 18, 2028
Jun 18, 2028
Granted
Apr 23, 2024
Apr 23, 2024
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
309
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 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
11
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 309 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 1 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 Aug 14, 2007, when application 11/838,832, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 1, 2021) | Aug 14, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +309 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 18, 2028 | 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 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 18, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,966,274 | In force Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
| US 8,214,311 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 9,684,838 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 10,810,452 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| Application 15/600,630 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,967,142 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| US 11,967,143 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 11,967,144 | this patent Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
8 of 11 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2028
Term ends Jun 18, 2028. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 309 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
9
later US patents cite this one
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