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US 8,534,625 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Sep 17, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed May 31, 2011 as application 13/149,779 · Granted Sep 17, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 281 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 17, 2025
2011 2032
Clock starts
May 31, 2011
No longer in force
Sep 17, 2025
Granted
Sep 17, 2013
Term would have run to
Mar 7, 2032
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
281
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
7
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Mar 7, 2032: its 20-year base term plus 281 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 May 31, 2011, when this application, 13/149,779, was filedMay 31, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+281 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 7, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Sep 17, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 17, 2025High confidence

This family

US 8,534,625this patent
Sep 2025
Sep 2025
Application 13/187,349Abandoned
not computed
not computed
Application PCT/US2012/047691PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,309,088In force
Jul 2033
Jul 2033
US 9,239,067In force
May 2031
May 2031
Application PCT/US2014/011533PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 9,611,874Lapsed on the fee record
Apr 2025
Apr 2025
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
Sep 14, 2011
Reel 26909, frame 483
Heath, Richard W.; Dworak, JR., Dallas M.Nibco, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 12, 2013
Reel 30987, frame 90
Nibco Inc.Cooper B-Line, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 7, 2018
Reel 47441, frame 577
Cooper B-Line, Inc.Eaton Intelligent Power LimitedAssignment of Assignor's Interest

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

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