Also listed on Soft-Tex Group, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends May 15, 2040 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 26, 2039
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Adven Group, LLC
Filed Feb 10, 2021 as application 17/172,349 · Granted Oct 8, 2024
Base term plus 263 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2019
2040
Clock starts
Aug 26, 2019
Aug 26, 2019
Term ends
May 15, 2040
May 15, 2040
Granted
Oct 8, 2024
Oct 8, 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
263
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.
4
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 263 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Aug 26, 2019, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Feb 10, 2021); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Aug 26, 2039 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +263 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 15, 2040 | 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 | May 15, 2040 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2019/046242 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2019/048215 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 12,108,879 | this patent May 2040 | May 2040 |
| Application 17/268,246 | Abandoned 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 22, 2021 Reel 58180, frame 837 | Soft-Tex International, Inc. (F/K/A Perry Textiles, Inc.) | Keybank National Association | Security Interest |
| Dec 8, 2022 Reel 62024, frame 64 | Soft-Tex International, Inc. | Sti (ABC), LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 6, 2023 Reel 62308, frame 715 | Sti (ABC), LLC | Soft-Tex Group, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 11, 2023 Reel 62352, frame 295 | Sti (ABC), LLC | Soft-Tex Group, Inc. | Corrective Cover Sheet to Correct the Address of the Assignee Previously Recorded at Reel 062308 Frame 0715 in Accordance with the Assignment Document. |
| Oct 4, 2024 Reel 68803, frame 495 | Soft-Tex Group, Inc. | Adven Group, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
May 2040
Term ends May 15, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 263 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
5
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.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.