Term ends Oct 27, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 27, 2040
Filed Jun 4, 2024 as application 18/733,463 · Granted Apr 28, 2026
Base term plus 15 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Oct 27, 2020
Oct 27, 2020
Term ends
Oct 27, 2040
Oct 27, 2040
Granted
Apr 28, 2026
Apr 28, 2026
base term
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
15
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 12,043,110.
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.
4
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 15 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Oct 27, 2020, when application 17/081,861, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 4, 2024) | Oct 27, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +15 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 11, 2040 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 12,043,110) | capped to Oct 27, 2040 | 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 | Oct 27, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,548,383 | In force Apr 2041 | Apr 2041 |
| US 11,623,513 | In force Oct 2040 | Oct 2040 |
| US 12,043,110 | In force Oct 2040 | Oct 2040 |
| US 12,611,926 | this patent Oct 2040 | Oct 2040 |
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 4, 2024 Reel 67617, frame 522 | Engerman, Eric M. | Dana Automotive Systems Group, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2040
Term ends Oct 27, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 15 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 12,043,110.
Citations
We have no citation count for this patent yet. That is not the same as never having been cited.
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