Term ends Apr 25, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 6, 2032
Held by Kohler Co.
Filed Nov 7, 2016 as application 15/345,210 · Granted Sep 29, 2020
Base term plus 231 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2033
Clock starts
Sep 6, 2012
Sep 6, 2012
Term ends
Apr 25, 2033
Apr 25, 2033
Granted
Sep 29, 2020
Sep 29, 2020
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
231
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
14
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 231 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 Sep 6, 2012, when application 13/605,587, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 7, 2016) | Sep 6, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +231 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 25, 2033 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 25, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 13/605,587 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 61/871,054 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 61/932,020 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,095,862 | In force Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
| US 10,945,059 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| US 10,003,873 | In force Dec 2032 | Dec 2032 |
| US 10,787,799 | this patent Apr 2033 | Apr 2033 |
| US 10,171,900 | In force Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
8 of 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 2016 Reel 40327, frame 541 | Hanna, Kenneth Scott; Soetaert, Michael James; Ruh, Keith Scott; Kuru, William Clement | Kohler Co. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2033
Term ends Apr 25, 2033. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 231 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2020 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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.