Term ends Dec 9, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 9, 2029
Held by Reconrobotics, Inc.
Filed Jun 29, 2023 as application 18/216,534 · Granted Jun 2, 2026
Base term plus 81 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
Dec 9, 2009
Dec 9, 2009
Term ends
Dec 9, 2029
Dec 9, 2029
Granted
Jun 2, 2026
Jun 2, 2026
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
81
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 10,688,671, US 11,312,031, US 9,061,544.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
7
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 81 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. No maintenance fee can end this term early. 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 9, 2009, when application 12/634,610, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 29, 2023) | Dec 9, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +81 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 28, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,688,671, US 11,312,031, US 9,061,544) | capped to Dec 9, 2029 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 9, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 12/634,610 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,061,544 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| Application 14/747,780 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,688,671 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 11,312,031 | In force Feb 2030 | Feb 2030 |
| US 11,691,302 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| US 12,643,248 | this patent Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 2024 Reel 69219, frame 156 | Carlson, Casey R.; Drenner, Andrew; Kossett, Alex J.; Burt, Ian T. | Reconrobotics, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Dec 2029
Term ends Dec 9, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 81 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 10,688,671, US 11,312,031, US 9,061,544.
Citations
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