Also listed on Fire & Pump Service Group, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Mar 18, 2034 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 29, 2033
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 11,883,700), so the cap could be lower.
Held by Acme Group, LLC
Filed May 4, 2022 as application 17/736,939 · Granted Dec 9, 2025
Base term plus 775 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2013
2034
Clock starts
Apr 29, 2013
Apr 29, 2013
Term ends
Mar 18, 2034
Mar 18, 2034
Granted
Dec 9, 2025
Dec 9, 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
775
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,883,700.
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.
10
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 775 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Apr 29, 2013, when application 13/873,143, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 4, 2022) | Apr 29, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +775 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 13, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 11,883,700) | capped to Mar 18, 2034 | Medium 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 | Mar 18, 2034 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 9,393,451 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| US 10,709,916 | In force Apr 2033 | Apr 2033 |
| Application 62/981,911 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,883,700 | In force no later than Mar 2034 | no later than Mar 2034 |
| US 12,420,126 | In force Jul 2036 | Jul 2036 |
| US 12,491,393 | this patent Mar 2034 | Mar 2034 |
| US 12,722,031 | In force Apr 2033 | Apr 2033 |
| US 12,728,307 | In force Apr 2033 | Apr 2033 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2022 Reel 60111, frame 874 | Broidy, Frank, MR. | Fire Pump and Service Group | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 2, 2024 Reel 66489, frame 91 | Broidy, Frank | Fire & Pump Service Group | Corrective Assignment to Correct the the Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 060111 Frame: 0874. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assingment. |
| Oct 3, 2024 Reel 68782, frame 954 | Fire & Pump Service Group | Acme Group, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Mar 2034
Term ends Mar 18, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 775 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 11,883,700.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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