Term ends Nov 13, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 6, 2037
Held by Applied Minds, LLC
Filed Feb 12, 2024 as application 18/439,672 · Granted Dec 9, 2025
Base term plus 130 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Jul 6, 2017
Jul 6, 2017
Term ends
Nov 13, 2037
Nov 13, 2037
Granted
Dec 9, 2025
Dec 9, 2025
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
130
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 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.
7
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 130 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 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 6, 2017, when application 15/643,376, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 12, 2024) | Jul 6, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +130 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 13, 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 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 13, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,656,640 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| Application 16/877,145 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,899,450 | In force Jul 2037 | Jul 2037 |
| US 12,493,289 | this patent Nov 2037 | Nov 2037 |
| Application 18/439,638 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 12,524,002 | In force Jul 2037 | Jul 2037 |
| Application 19/412,259 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 26, 2024 Reel 66903, frame 452 | Ferren, Bran | Applied Minds, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Nov 2037
Term ends Nov 13, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 130 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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How we rank
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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.