Term ends Nov 17, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 11, 2033
Held by Palm Silage, Inc.
Filed Jul 19, 2021 as application 17/379,819 · Granted Jan 21, 2025
Base term plus 616 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2034
Clock starts
Mar 11, 2013
Mar 11, 2013
Term ends
Nov 17, 2034
Nov 17, 2034
Granted
Jan 21, 2025
Jan 21, 2025
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
616
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 11,064,717, US 11,071,313, to Nov 17, 2034. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
8
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 616 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 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Mar 11, 2013, when application 13/794,686, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 19, 2021) | Mar 11, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +616 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 17, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,064,717, US 11,071,313) | resolves to Nov 17, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 17, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,064,717 | In force Jan 2035 | Jan 2035 |
| Application PCT/US2014/017207 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,071,313 | In force May 2036 | May 2036 |
| US 12,409,480 | In force Jun 2035 | Jun 2035 |
| US 12,201,127 | this patent Nov 2034 | Nov 2034 |
| US 12,201,128 | In force Jul 2034 | Jul 2034 |
| Application 18/982,176 | Pending not computed | not computed |
7 of 8 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 12, 2024 Reel 69571, frame 866 | Parks, James Clifford | Palm Silage, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2034
Term ends Nov 17, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 616 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,064,717, US 11,071,313, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
Fewer than half of the utility patents granted in 2025 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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.