Term ends Jun 12, 2033 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 12, 2033
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Snap-on Incorporated
Filed Nov 30, 2015 as application 14/954,378 · Granted Jul 3, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
Jun 12, 2013
Jun 12, 2013
Term ends
Jun 12, 2033
Jun 12, 2033
Granted
Jul 3, 2018
Jul 3, 2018
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
9
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. 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 Jun 12, 2013, when application 13/916,192, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 30, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jun 12, 2033 | 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 | 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 | Jun 12, 2033 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,811,962 | In force Aug 2034 | Aug 2034 |
| US 10,013,834 | this patent Jun 2033 | Jun 2033 |
| US 10,347,066 | In force Jun 2033 | Jun 2033 |
| US 11,270,540 | In force Jun 2033 | Jun 2033 |
| US 11,741,427 | In force Jun 2033 | Jun 2033 |
| US 12,243,011 | In force Jun 2033 | Jun 2033 |
| Application 18/421,915 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2025/011910 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 9 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2022 Reel 58868, frame 441 | Phillips, Preston; Fly, David C.; Lipsey, Matthew J.; Chwan, Joseph; Rogers, Frederick J | Snap-on Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Jun 2033
Term ends Jun 12, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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