Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 3, 2023 (Antares Capital LP).

Term ends Nov 19, 2043 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by CFS Brands, LLC

Filed Sep 12, 2022 as application 17/942,878 · Granted Oct 14, 2025

Base term plus 433 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Nov 19, 2043

2022 2043

Clock starts
Sep 12, 2022

Term ends
Nov 19, 2043

Granted
Oct 14, 2025

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

433

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 433 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 Sep 12, 2022, when this application, 17/942,878, was filed	Sep 12, 2042	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+433 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Nov 19, 2043	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	Nov 19, 2043	High confidence

This family

Application 63/261,169	Provisional application no patent term	no patent term
US 12,440,045	this patent Nov 2043	Nov 2043

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
Sep 13, 2022 Reel 61074, frame 602	Schoon, Jodie	CFS Brands, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 3, 2023 Reel 65107, frame 356	Foodware, LLC; CFS Brands, LLC; San Jamar, Inc.; Ayrking, LLC	Antares Capital LP, as Collateral Agent	Security Interest

Sources

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

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Alerts on its grants, lapses and transfers.

What's changing

Nov 2043

Term ends Nov 19, 2043. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 433 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patent cites 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

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.

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