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Tilting Landing Gear Systems and Methods

US 11,939,043 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Nov 9, 2036 · High confidence

Filed Oct 27, 2021 as application 17/512,421 · Granted Mar 26, 2024
Base term plus 132 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2016 2036
Clock starts
Jun 30, 2016
Term ends
Nov 9, 2036
Granted
Mar 26, 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
132
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,150,558, US 11,433,991, US 11,801,932, to Nov 9, 2036. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
17
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 132 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 30, 2016, when application 15/198,611, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 27, 2021)Jun 30, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+132 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 9, 2036High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,150,558, US 11,433,991, US 11,801,932)resolves to Nov 9, 2036, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 9, 2036High confidence

This family

US 10,150,558In force
Mar 2037
Mar 2037
US 11,186,359In force
Mar 2037
Mar 2037
US 11,697,500In force
Mar 2040
Mar 2040
US 11,433,991In force
Mar 2037
Mar 2037
US 11,801,932In force
Sep 2040
Sep 2040
US 11,453,483In force
Jun 2036
Jun 2036
US 11,939,043this patent
Nov 2036
Nov 2036
US 12,304,620In force
Jun 2036
Jun 2036
8 of 17 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 20, 2023
Reel 65924, frame 79
Page, Mark A.Jetzero, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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