AutoForm Engineering GmbH

14 patents currently held · Updated Nov 14, 2026

Held is read from USPTO's recorded assignments; a transfer never recorded there does not appear.

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Sep 2027

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Maintenance fees fall due 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after grant. A missed fee ends a patent at the end of the six month grace period that follows, not on the due date.

1 fee due Aug 27, 2027
The maintenance fee for Method for designing a web that links parts to a carrier being processed in a progressive die (US 11,914,926) comes due Aug 27, 2027. Unpaid by Feb 28, 2028, it lapses early.

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Patents held now

Soonest term end first. Each date below is computed on that patent's own page, which shows the rule, the adjustments and the fee history it was derived from.

Patent	Title	Status	Expires	Confidence
US 8,140,306	Determination of process operations in order to describe forming processes on a forming part In force Term ends Sep 15, 2027 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Sep 15, 2027	From the USPTO record
US 7,870,792	Forming Limit Strain Analysis In force Term ends Dec 1, 2028 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Dec 1, 2028	High confidence
US 7,885,722	Method planning for manufacturing sheet-metal forming parts In force Term ends Jun 20, 2029 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jun 20, 2029	From the USPTO record
US 8,463,583	Simulated design of formed sheet-metal parts with thinning and thickening effects In force Term ends Apr 3, 2031 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Apr 3, 2031	From the USPTO record
US 8,560,103	Method and computing system for designing a sheet-metal-forming process In force Term ends Jul 5, 2031 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jul 5, 2031	From the USPTO record
US 8,478,572	Method and system for processing and displaying sheet-metal-forming simulation parameters In force Term ends Jan 21, 2032 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jan 21, 2032	From the USPTO record
US 9,342,070	Method and computing system for designing a sheet-metal-forming process In force Term ends Jun 11, 2034 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jun 11, 2034	From the USPTO record
US RE47,557	Method and computer system for characterizing a sheet metal part In force Term ends May 20, 2035 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends May 20, 2035	From the USPTO record
US 12,307,175	Method and device for geometric analysis of a part surface In force Term ends May 21, 2042 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends May 21, 2042	From the USPTO record
US 12,147,735	Method for pointer-based user interaction in a CAE/CAD system In force Term ends Jul 8, 2042 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jul 8, 2042	From the USPTO record

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