Term ends Sep 24, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 20, 2030
Held by Quadient Technologies France
Filed Jul 20, 2010 as application 12/839,815 · Granted Nov 10, 2015
Base term plus 797 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2032
Clock starts
Jul 20, 2010
Jul 20, 2010
Term ends
Sep 24, 2032
Sep 24, 2032
Granted
Nov 10, 2015
Nov 10, 2015
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
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
797
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
2
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 797 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 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 Jul 20, 2010, when this application, 12/839,815, was filed | Jul 20, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +797 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 24, 2032 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 24, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,183,590 | this patent Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
| US 10,121,290 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2010 Reel 24714, frame 861 | Angelone, Sean | Neopost Technologies | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 12, 2022 Reel 62226, frame 973 | Neopost Technologies | Quadient Technologies France | Change of Name |
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What's changing
Sep 2032
Term ends Sep 24, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 797 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
88
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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