Term ends Jan 4, 2036 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 4, 2036
Held by Deflecto, LLC
Filed Jun 7, 2024 as application 18/737,237 · Granted Nov 18, 2025
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2016
2036
Clock starts
Jan 4, 2016
Jan 4, 2016
Term ends
Jan 4, 2036
Jan 4, 2036
Granted
Nov 18, 2025
Nov 18, 2025
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 12,012,138, to Jan 4, 2036. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
6
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 4, 2016, when application 14/987,483, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 7, 2024); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 4, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 12,012,138) | resolves to Jan 4, 2036, no earlier than this term, so no change | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 4, 2036 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 10,308,409 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| Application PCT/US2016/012131 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,343,702 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US 11,059,504 | In force Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| US 12,012,138 | In force no later than Jun 2037 | no later than Jun 2037 |
| US 12,473,004 | this patent Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 2026 Reel 74036, frame 703 | Deflecto, LLC | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2036
Term ends Jan 4, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 12,012,138, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
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