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Novel Shower Installations and Methods for Efficiently Constructing Same

US 12,458,180 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Apr 24, 2024 (Oakworth Capital Bank).

Term ends Jul 29, 2041 · High confidence

Filed Aug 3, 2022 as application 17/879,894 · Granted Nov 4, 2025
Base term plus 555 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2020 2041
Clock starts
Jan 21, 2020
Term ends
Jul 29, 2041
Granted
Nov 4, 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
555
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.
2
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 555 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 21, 2020, when application 16/748,412, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 3, 2022)Jan 21, 2040High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+555 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 29, 2041High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 29, 2041High confidence

This family

US 11,406,228In force
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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
Aug 3, 2022
Reel 60708, frame 348
Cook, Joseph R.Tile Redi, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 24, 2024
Reel 67210, frame 95
Tile Redi, LLCOakworth Capital BankSecurity Interest

Sources

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