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System and Method for Safety Management in Roll-Up Doors

US 12,709,936 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Term ends Sep 13, 2037 · High confidence

Filed Mar 2, 2023 as application 18/116,398 · Granted Aug 18, 2026
Base term plus 365 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2016 2037
Clock starts
Sep 13, 2016
Term ends
Sep 13, 2037
Granted
Aug 18, 2026
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
365
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 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.
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 365 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 0 of 2 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 Sep 13, 2016, when application 15/264,179, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 2, 2023)Sep 13, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+365 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 13, 2037High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 13, 2037High confidence

This family

US 10,619,397In force
Sep 2036
Sep 2036
Application PCT/US2016/051721PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 11,236,540In force
Sep 2036
Sep 2036
US 12,404,714In force
Sep 2036
Sep 2036
US 12,709,936this patent
Sep 2037
Sep 2037
Application 18/738,152Pending
not computed
not computed
Application 19/743,878Pending
not computed
not computed
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
Mar 23, 2023
Reel 63078, frame 28
Gregoriou, Daniel J.Rytec CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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