Collateral for a security interest recorded Nov 5, 2019 (Bain Capital Credit, LP).
Term ends Mar 21, 2032 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 21, 2032
Filed Dec 20, 2017 as application 15/849,188 · Granted Jul 21, 2020
Base term plus 70 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Mar 21, 2012
Mar 21, 2012
Term ends
Mar 21, 2032
Mar 21, 2032
Granted
Jul 21, 2020
Jul 21, 2020
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
70
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,194,524, US 9,857,010.
1 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.
3
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 70 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 Mar 21, 2012, when application 13/426,377, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 20, 2017); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 21, 2032 | 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 | +70 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 30, 2032 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,194,524, US 9,857,010) | capped to Mar 21, 2032 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 14928456 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 21, 2032 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 9,194,524 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| US 9,857,010 | In force Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
| US 10,718,456 | this patent Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20, 2017 Reel 44453, frame 294 | Konishi, Howard | Macro Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 20, 2017 Reel 44453, frame 341 | Macro Technologies, LLC | Engineered Controls International, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 5, 2019 Reel 50915, frame 514 | Engineered Controls International, LLC; Superior Products, LLC | Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Mar 2032
Term ends Mar 21, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 70 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,194,524, US 9,857,010.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2020 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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