Term ends Sep 21, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 4, 2036
Held by Camso Inc.
Filed Aug 10, 2020 as application 16/989,823 · Granted Feb 13, 2024
Base term plus 566 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
Mar 4, 2016
Mar 4, 2016
Term ends
Sep 21, 2037
Sep 21, 2037
Granted
Feb 13, 2024
Feb 13, 2024
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
566
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.
5
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 566 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 Mar 4, 2016, when application PCT/CA2016/050234, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 10, 2020) | Mar 4, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +566 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 21, 2037 | 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 | Sep 21, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,167,810 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 11,046,377 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 11,897,558 | this patent Sep 2037 | Sep 2037 |
| Application 17/521,799 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
4 of 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 2021 Reel 58509, frame 769 | Boily, Patrice; Bergeron, Matthieu; Richard, Simon; Laperle, Ghislain | Camso Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Sep 2037
Term ends Sep 21, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 566 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
Fewer than half of the utility patents granted in 2024 in our data have been cited yet, so we show the count and do not rank on it.
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