Term ends Mar 31, 2037 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 31, 2037
Held by Wayne Fueling Systems LLC
Filed Mar 8, 2019 as application 16/296,972 · Granted Feb 23, 2021
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Mar 31, 2017
Mar 31, 2017
Term ends
Mar 31, 2037
Mar 31, 2037
Granted
Feb 23, 2021
Feb 23, 2021
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.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,269,082, to Mar 31, 2037. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
15
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. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 1 of 3 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 31, 2017, when application 15/476,150, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 8, 2019); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 31, 2037 | 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,269,082) | resolves to Mar 31, 2037, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 15476150 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 31, 2037 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 10,269,082 | In force Jun 2037 | Jun 2037 |
| US 10,929,937 | this patent Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| US 12,008,664 | In force Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| US 11,854,097 | In force Jun 2037 | Jun 2037 |
| US 12,002,119 | In force Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| US 11,741,556 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 12,248,995 | In force Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| US 12,393,998 | In force Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
8 of 15 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2037
Term ends Mar 31, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,269,082, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2021 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.