Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 31, 2026 (Farm Credit of Central Florida, Aca).
Term ends Apr 6, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 27, 2040
Filed Feb 27, 2020 as application 16/803,607 · Granted Dec 14, 2021
Base term plus 39 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Feb 27, 2020
Feb 27, 2020
Term ends
Apr 6, 2040
Apr 6, 2040
Granted
Dec 14, 2021
Dec 14, 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
39
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.
22
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 39 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 Feb 27, 2020, when this application, 16/803,607, was filed | Feb 27, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +39 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 6, 2040 | 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 6, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,480,202 | In force Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| Application PCT/US2014/071411 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 62/116,890 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,888,631 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 9,888,630 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| US 9,897,429 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
| US 9,554,513 | In force Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
| US 9,913,428 | In force Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
8 of 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 2020 Reel 51955, frame 111 | Morrow, J. Mark; Miller, Paul; Vernarsky, Timothy | Sonoco Development, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 20, 2021 Reel 56304, frame 525 | Sonoco Development, Inc. | Harvest Croo, LLC, Dba Harvest Croo Robotics | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 5, 2021 Reel 58030, frame 582 | Pitzer, Robert Henry | Harvest Croo, LLC, Dba Harvest Croo Robotics | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 31, 2026 Reel 75485, frame 928 | Harvest Croo, LLC | Farm Credit of Central Florida, Aca | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Apr 2040
Term ends Apr 6, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 39 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is above 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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