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Dual Focal Plane Reticles for Optical Sighting Devices

US 12,085,361 In force
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Term ends Aug 22, 2036 · High confidence

Filed Jan 21, 2021 as application 17/154,526 · Granted Sep 10, 2024
Base term plus 717 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2036
Clock starts
Sep 5, 2014
Term ends
Aug 22, 2036
Granted
Sep 10, 2024
base term patent term adjustment Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
717
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
10
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 717 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 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 Sep 5, 2014, when application 14/478,697, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 21, 2021)Sep 5, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+717 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 22, 2036High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 22, 2036High confidence

This family

Application 14/478,697Abandoned
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US 10,900,745In force
Sep 2034
Sep 2034
Application PCT/US2016/037594PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
Application 62/638,549Provisional application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,680,772In force
Sep 2034
Sep 2034
Application 16/984,857Abandoned
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US 12,085,361this patent
Aug 2036
Aug 2036
Application 17/719,762Abandoned
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8 of 10 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
Mar 14, 2022
Reel 59364, frame 670
Sheltered Wings, Inc., D/B/A Vortex Optics, a Wisconsin CorporationPnc Bank, National AssociationSecurity Interest

Sources

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