Collateral for a security interest recorded May 12, 2026 (Fifth Third Bank, National Association).
Term ends Feb 20, 2039 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 20, 2039
Held by Unity Tactical, LLC
Filed Aug 24, 2020 as application 17/000,608 · Granted Oct 11, 2022
Base term plus 19 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2019
2039
Clock starts
Feb 20, 2019
Feb 20, 2019
Term ends
Feb 20, 2039
Feb 20, 2039
Granted
Oct 11, 2022
Oct 11, 2022
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
19
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 10,782,099.
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.
4
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 19 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Feb 20, 2019, when application 16/280,087, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 24, 2020) | Feb 20, 2039 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +19 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 11, 2039 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,782,099) | capped to Feb 20, 2039 | 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 | Feb 20, 2039 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,782,099 | In force Feb 2039 | Feb 2039 |
| US 10,948,267 | In force Feb 2039 | Feb 2039 |
| US 11,466,961 | this patent Feb 2039 | Feb 2039 |
| US 11,454,474 | In force Feb 2039 | Feb 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2025 Reel 71725, frame 587 | Zimmer, Trent | Division Group, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 31, 2025 Reel 73461, frame 37 | Division Group, LLC | Unity Tactical, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 12, 2026 Reel 75562, frame 524 | Silencerco Weapons Research, LLC; Unity Tactical LLC; Zev Technologies, LLC; Syndicate Optics Research, LLC; Sicosyndicate, LLC | Fifth Third Bank, National Association | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Feb 2039
Term ends Feb 20, 2039. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 19 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,782,099.
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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