Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 30, 2023 (Bank of America, N.A., as the Administrative Agent).
Term ends Feb 3, 2042 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 7, 2042
Held by Tomahawk Robotics
Filed Jan 7, 2022 as application 17/571,217 · Granted Dec 26, 2023
Base term plus 27 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2022
2042
Clock starts
Jan 7, 2022
Jan 7, 2022
Term ends
Feb 3, 2042
Feb 3, 2042
Granted
Dec 26, 2023
Dec 26, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
27
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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 27 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are 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 Jan 7, 2022, when this application, 17/571,217, was filed | Jan 7, 2042 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +27 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 3, 2042 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 3, 2042 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,854,410 | this patent Feb 2042 | Feb 2042 |
| Application 18/469,635 | Pending 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 2022 Reel 58678, frame 732 | Summer, Matthew D.; Bowman, William S.; Falendysz, Andrew D.; Hedman, Daniel R.; Truesdell, Brad; Cooper, Jeffrey S.; Bowman, Michael E.; Wagoner, Sean; Makovy, Kevin | Tomahawk Robotics | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 30, 2023 Reel 65394, frame 847 | Tomahawk Robotics, Inc. | Bank of America, N.A., as the Administrative Agent | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
| Nov 22, 2023 Reel 65663, frame 323 | Summer, Matthew D.; Bowman, William S.; Falendysz, Andrew D.; Hedman, Daniel R.; Truesdell, Brad; Cooper, Jeffrey S.; Bowman, Michael E.; Wagoner, Sean; Makovy, Kevin | Tomahawk Robotics, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Previously Recorded at Reel: 058678 Frame: 0732. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2042
Term ends Feb 3, 2042. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 27 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 top 25% of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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