Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 30, 2025 (Zetec, Inc.).
Term ends Jan 2, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 27, 2036
Held by Zetec, Inc.
Filed Jan 26, 2018 as application 15/747,878 · Granted Feb 16, 2021
Base term plus 159 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
Jul 27, 2016
Jul 27, 2016
Term ends
Jan 2, 2037
Jan 2, 2037
Granted
Feb 16, 2021
Feb 16, 2021
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
159
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.
2
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 159 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 Jul 27, 2016, when application PCT/US2016/044229, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 26, 2018) | Jul 27, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +159 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 2, 2037 | 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 | Jan 2, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2016/044229 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,921,287 | this patent Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
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 15, 2018 Reel 44942, frame 131 | Rensing, Noa M. | Zetec, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 15, 2023 Reel 62983, frame 469 | Zetec, Inc. | National Bank of Canada | Security Interest |
| Jun 5, 2025 Reel 71328, frame 530 | Previan Technologies Inc.; Pavemetrics Systems Inc.; Eddyfi Canada Inc.; Zetec, Inc.; Eddyfi Robotics Inc.; Eddyfi Corp.; Eddyfi UK Limited; Senceive Limited | National Bank of Canada | Security Interest |
| Jul 30, 2025 Reel 71881, frame 566 | National Bank of Canada | Zetec, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Jun 3, 2026 Reel 74843, frame 323 | National Bank of Canada | Zetec Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2037
Term ends Jan 2, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 159 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2021 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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