Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 16, 2025 (Ares Capital Corporation).

Term ends Aug 16, 2040 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Werner Co.

Filed Mar 13, 2020 as application 16/818,602 · Granted Aug 26, 2025

Base term plus 1325 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Aug 16, 2040

2016 2040

Clock starts
Dec 30, 2016

Term ends
Aug 16, 2040

Granted
Aug 26, 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

1,325

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.

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 1325 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 Dec 30, 2016, when applications 15/395,397 and 29/589,376, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Mar 13, 2020)	Dec 30, 2036	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+1325 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Aug 16, 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	Aug 16, 2040	High confidence

This family

US 10,612,305	In force Dec 2036	Dec 2036
US D835,807	In force Dec 2033	Dec 2033
US D905,869	In force Dec 2035	Dec 2035
US D935,053	In force Nov 2036	Nov 2036
US 10,590,703	In force Dec 2036	Dec 2036
US 12,398,597	this patent Aug 2040	Aug 2040
US 12,392,197	In force Dec 2038	Dec 2038
Application 19/019,893	Pending not computed	not computed

8 of 9 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
Oct 4, 2021 Reel 57725, frame 242	Werner Co.	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent	Security Interest
May 11, 2023 Reel 63609, frame 437	Parker, Thomas W.; Mora, Daniel C.; Beggs, Robert D.; Lentine, Tek; Dangrow, Joseph D.; Field, Adam C.; Sedlacek, Brent	Werner Co.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 12, 2023 Reel 63958, frame 740	Werner Co.	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Security Interest
Jun 12, 2023 Reel 63957, frame 438	JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral Agent	Werner Co.	Release of Security Interest in Patents at R/F 057725/0242
Jun 27, 2023 Reel 64126, frame 396	Werner Co.	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Security Interest
Jun 27, 2023 Reel 64205, frame 636	Werner Co.	Willa Finco II SARL (Formerly Triton V Luxco 95 SARL)	Security Interest
Jun 16, 2025 Reel 71636, frame 185	Werner Co.	Ares Capital Corporation, As Collateral Agent	Security Interest
Jun 16, 2025 Reel 71649, frame 699	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Werner Co.	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents Recorded at Reel 063958, Frame 0740
Jun 16, 2025 Reel 71649, frame 774	Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent	Werner Co.	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents Recorded at Reel 064126, Frame 0396
Jun 16, 2025 Reel 71649, frame 887	Willa Finco II SARL	Werner Co.	Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents Recorded at Reel 064205, Frame 0636
Aug 8, 2025 Reel 72608, frame 387	Parker, Thomas W.; Mora, Daniel C.; Beggs, Robert D.; Lentine, Tek; Dangrow, Joseph C.; Field, Adam C.; Sedlacek, Brent	Werner Co.	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Data - City (of Street Address from Werner to Greenville) Previously Recorded on Reel 63609 Frame 437. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.

Sources

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What's changing

Aug 2040

Term ends Aug 16, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 1325 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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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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