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Optimizing Pallet Location in a Warehouse

US 11,436,560 In force
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Term ends Nov 19, 2039 · High confidence

Filed Oct 5, 2020 as application 17/062,847 · Granted Sep 6, 2022
Base term plus 143 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2019 2039
Clock starts
Nov 19, 2019
Term ends
Nov 19, 2039
Granted
Sep 6, 2022
base term 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
143
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,796,278.
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.
7
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 143 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 19, 2019, when application 16/688,922, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 5, 2020)Nov 19, 2039High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+143 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordApr 10, 2040High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,796,278)capped to Nov 19, 2039High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 19, 2039High confidence

This family

US 10,796,278In force
Nov 2039
Nov 2039
US 11,436,560this patent
Nov 2039
Nov 2039
Application PCT/US2020/061235PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,989,689In force
Nov 2039
Nov 2039
US 12,450,563In force
Nov 2039
Nov 2039
Application 19/341,073Pending
not computed
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Application 19/384,006Pending
not computed
not computed
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
Dec 22, 2020
Reel 54723, frame 203
Lineage Logistics, LLCJpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Security Interest
Sep 9, 2021
Reel 57428, frame 939
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Lineage Logistics, LLCSecurity Interest
Apr 28, 2022
Reel 59765, frame 146
Wintz, Daniel Thomas; Li, Michael Lingzhi; Wolf, Elliott Gerard; Mawer, Chloe; Voegele, Caitlin; Fang, Zhou Daisy; Choudhury, Maya Ileana; Long, Julia; Thattai, Sudarsan; Rivera, Jeffrey AlvarezLineage Logistics, LLCAssignment of Assignor's 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

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