Term ends no later than Feb 14, 2033 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.

Held by Futurewei Technologies, Inc.

Filed Feb 26, 2015 as application 14/632,881 · Granted Dec 5, 2017

Base term plus 45 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Ends no later than Feb 14, 2033

2012 2033

Clock starts
Dec 31, 2012

Ends no later than
Feb 14, 2033

Granted
Dec 5, 2017

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

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

Unresolved

Terminal disclaimer

On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.

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.

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 45 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Dec 31, 2012, when application 13/732,129, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 26, 2015)	Dec 31, 2032	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+45 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Feb 14, 2033	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved	no cap applied, and none guessed	Medium 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	no later than Feb 14, 2033	Medium confidence

This family

US 9,008,585	In force Jan 2033	Jan 2033
US 9,838,102	this patent no later than Feb 2033	no later than Feb 2033
US 10,404,345	In force Dec 2032	Dec 2032
US 11,277,183	In force Dec 2032	Dec 2032
US 11,817,930	In force Dec 2032	Dec 2032

The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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Alerts on its grants, lapses and transfers.

What's changing

Feb 2033

Term ends no later than Feb 14, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed

Note

The 45 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Open question

A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Feb 14, 2033. We will not guess the cap.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against. 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

This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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