Term ends Jan 5, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 30, 2039
Held by Tedder Industries, LLC
Filed Sep 30, 2019 as application 16/587,427 · Granted Dec 28, 2021
Base term plus 97 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2019
2040
Clock starts
Sep 30, 2019
Sep 30, 2019
Term ends
Jan 5, 2040
Jan 5, 2040
Granted
Dec 28, 2021
Dec 28, 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
97
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 97 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 30, 2019, when this application, 16/587,427, was filed | Sep 30, 2039 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +97 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 5, 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 | Jan 5, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,209,240 | this patent Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| US 11,740,052 | In force Sep 2039 | Sep 2039 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 2020 Reel 52164, frame 630 | Treto, Timothy; Stephens, Drew; Shirobokov, Igor; Van Natter, Silas; Vold, Taylor | Tedder Industries, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 9, 2021 Reel 57454, frame 726 | Point Blank Enterprises, Inc.; Tedder Industries, LLC | Point Blank Enterprises, Inc. Dba/Gould & Goodrich; Tedder Industries, LLC | Notice of Agreement |
| Sep 9, 2021 reel/frame not recorded | Point Blank Enterprises, Inc.; Tedder Industries, LLC | Point Blank Enterprises, Inc. Dba/Gould & Goodrich | Notice of Agreement |
| Sep 9, 2021 reel/frame not recorded | Point Blank Enterprises, Inc.; Tedder Industries, LLC | Tedder Industries, LLC | Notice of Agreement |
| Mar 23, 2022 Reel 59380, frame 6 | Point Blank Enterprises, Inc.; Protective Products Enterprises, LLC; United Shield International, L.l.c.; Point Blank Protective Apparel & Uniforms, LLC | Keybank National Association | Security Interest |
| Mar 24, 2022 Reel 59396, frame 216 | Point Blank Enterprises, Inc. | Whitehorse Capital Management, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Oct 18, 2024 Reel 68940, frame 327 | Point Blank Enterprises, Inc. | Keybank National Association | Security Interest |
| Oct 18, 2024 Reel 68939, frame 442 | Keybank National Association | Point Blank Enterprises, Inc.; Protective Products Enterprises, LLC; United Shield International, L.l.c.; Point Blank Protective Apparel & Uniforms, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 18, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Keybank National Association | Point Blank Enterprises, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 18, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Keybank National Association | Protective Products Enterprises, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 18, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Keybank National Association | United Shield International, L.l.c. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 18, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Keybank National Association | Point Blank Protective Apparel & Uniforms, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 21, 2024 Reel 68951, frame 301 | Whitehorse Capital Management, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Point Blank Enterprises, Inc.; Protective Products Enterprises, LLC; United Shield International, L.l.c.; Point Blank Protective Apparel & Uniforms, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 21, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Whitehorse Capital Management, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Point Blank Enterprises, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 21, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Whitehorse Capital Management, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Protective Products Enterprises, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 21, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Whitehorse Capital Management, LLC, as Collateral Agent | United Shield International, L.l.c. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 21, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Whitehorse Capital Management, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Point Blank Protective Apparel & Uniforms, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 4, 2025 Reel 70397, frame 297 | Point Blank Enterprises, Inc. | MSD Admin Services, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Apr 30, 2026 Reel 74532, frame 653 | Tedder Industries, LLC | Safariland, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 26, 2026 Reel 75986, frame 244 | Tedder Industries, LLC | Tedder Industries, LLC | Entity Conversion |
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What's changing
Jan 2040
Term ends Jan 5, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 97 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
15
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2021 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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