Term ends Oct 22, 2030 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Panduit Corp.

Filed May 11, 2021 as application 17/317,397 · Granted Nov 8, 2022

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Oct 22, 2030

2010 2030

Clock starts
Oct 22, 2010

Term ends
Oct 22, 2030

Granted
Nov 8, 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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

1 of 1

Maintenance fees paid

One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.

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. 1 of 1 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 Oct 22, 2010, when application 12/909,974, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 11, 2021)	Oct 22, 2030	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	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 1 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Oct 22, 2030	High confidence

This family

US 8,636,424	In force Feb 2032	Feb 2032
US 9,442,256	In force Feb 2031	Feb 2031
US 9,638,872	In force Oct 2030	Oct 2030
US 9,798,094	In force Oct 2030	Oct 2030
Application 15/716,770	Abandoned not computed	not computed
US 11,422,316	In force Oct 2030	Oct 2030
US 11,493,701	this patent Oct 2030	Oct 2030
US 11,822,132	In force Oct 2030	Oct 2030

8 of 11 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
Aug 23, 2022 Reel 60865, frame 917	Kuffel, Gregory L.; Kwasny, Joel D.; Berridge, Benjamin J.	Panduit Corp.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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What's changing

Oct 2030

Term ends Oct 22, 2030. No further fees fall due before then

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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