Term ends Dec 11, 2038 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Snap-on Incorporated

Filed Jan 26, 2022 as application 17/648,980 · Granted Nov 11, 2025

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Dec 11, 2038

2018 2038

Clock starts
Dec 11, 2018

Term ends
Dec 11, 2038

Granted
Nov 11, 2025

base term 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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 11, 2018, when application 16/216,388, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 26, 2022)	Dec 11, 2038	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	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	Dec 11, 2038	High confidence

This family

US 12,112,589	In force Jul 2040	Jul 2040
US 11,238,676	In force Jan 2039	Jan 2039
US 11,354,944	In force Feb 2040	Feb 2040
Application PCT/US2019/065649	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 12,469,339	this patent Dec 2038	Dec 2038
US 12,293,616	In force Dec 2038	Dec 2038
US 12,626,546	In force Dec 2038	Dec 2038
Application 19/169,437	Pending not computed	not computed

8 of 10 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
Feb 2, 2022 Reel 58859, frame 766	Merg, Patrick S.; Brozovich, Roy S.; Foreman, Jacob G.; Kelley, Brett A.	Snap-on Incorporated	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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What's changing

Dec 2038

Term ends Dec 11, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Citations

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.

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