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Vehicle Drive System and Method and Idle Reduction System and Method

US 10,792,993 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Also listed on Odyne Systems, LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 7, 2019 (Allison Transmission, Inc.).

Term ends Dec 26, 2028 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed May 20, 2014 as application 14/283,185 · Granted Oct 6, 2020
Base term plus 210 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2008 2028
Clock starts
May 30, 2008
Term ends
Dec 26, 2028
Granted
Oct 6, 2020
base term patent term adjustment fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
210
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 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.
17
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 210 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts May 30, 2008, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed May 20, 2014); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)May 30, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+210 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 26, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 26, 2028Medium confidence

This family

US 7,928,148In force
Nov 2027
Nov 2027
US 8,978,798In force
Mar 2031
Mar 2031
Application 12/130,088Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 8,153,847In force
May 2030
May 2030
US 8,818,588In force
Jan 2030
Jan 2030
Application PCT/US2008/008442PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application PCT/US2009/066151PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,408,341In force
no later than Jan 2029
no later than Jan 2029
8 of 17 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Feb 23, 2016
Reel 37805, frame 66
Odyne Systems LLCPower Technology Holdings LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 23, 2016
Reel 39848, frame 771
Dalum, Joseph Thomas; Jarmuz, Matthew J.; Myers, Daniel Francis; Ambrosio, Joseph MarioOdyne Systems, LLCNunc Pro Tunc Assignment
Jan 7, 2019
Reel 47920, frame 546
Odyne Systems, LLCAllison Transmission, Inc.Security Interest
Jan 7, 2019
Reel 47920, frame 678
Power Technology Holdings, LLCAllison Transmission, Inc.Security Interest

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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