Transport Vehicle Capacity Maximization Logistics System and Method of Same

US 8,478,619 Term ended

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Term ended Apr 5, 2021 · Low confidence

Computed 20-year base term

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Aug 4, 2025.

Held by Arrowstream, Inc.

Filed Oct 18, 2010 as application 12/906,474 · Granted Jul 2, 2013

Base term plus 97 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Apr 5, 2021

2000 2026

Clock starts
Dec 29, 2000

Term ended
Apr 5, 2021

Granted
Jul 2, 2013

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

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

No effect

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,840,429, to Apr 5, 2021. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

2 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.

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 29, 2000, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Oct 18, 2010); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Dec 29, 2020	High confidence
Continuity chain	A parent in the chain could not be resolved	dated from this application's own claim	Medium confidence
Patent term adjustment	+97 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Apr 5, 2021	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,840,429)	resolves to Apr 5, 2021, no earlier than this term, so no change	Medium confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	2 of 2 maintenance fees paid	term ended	High confidence
USPTO status record	Recorded as expired for non-payment on Aug 4, 2025, after the term ended	no change	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Apr 5, 2021	Low confidence

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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.

Transport Vehicle Capacity Maximization Logistics System and Method of Same

Term ended Apr 5, 2021 · Low confidence

20-year base term ended Dec 29, 2020

How we calculated this date

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