Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 12, 2020 (M&T Bank).
Term ended Mar 11, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 14, 2023
Held by Wright Manufacturing, Inc.
Filed Nov 14, 2003 as application 10/712,261 · Granted Dec 1, 2009
Base term plus 483 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Mar 11, 2025
2003
2026
Clock starts
Nov 14, 2003
Nov 14, 2003
Term ended
Mar 11, 2025
Mar 11, 2025
Granted
Dec 1, 2009
Dec 1, 2009
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
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
483
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
21
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 483 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Nov 14, 2003, when this application, 10/712,261, was filed | Nov 14, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +483 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 11, 2025 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 11, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,560,952 | Term ended Oct 2019 | Oct 2019 |
| US 6,658,831 | Term ended Nov 2020 | Nov 2020 |
| US 6,688,089 | Term ended no later than Oct 2019 | no later than Oct 2019 |
| US 6,935,093 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2017 | Aug 2017 |
| US 6,935,092 | Term ended Oct 2019 | Oct 2019 |
| US 7,624,996 | this patent Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 6,868,658 | Term ended Nov 2020 | Nov 2020 |
| US 7,272,920 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
8 of 21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 2004 Reel 15186, frame 256 | Velke, James D.; Wright, William R. | Wright Manufacturing, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 12, 2020 Reel 52926, frame 118 | Wright Manufacturing, Inc. | M&T Bank | Security Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 483 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
37
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2009 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.