Term ends Jun 6, 2030 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Rockwool A/S

Filed Oct 28, 2011 as application 13/257,015 · Granted Nov 26, 2013

Base term plus 79 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Jun 6, 2030

2010 2030

Clock starts
Mar 19, 2010

Term ends
Jun 6, 2030

Granted
Nov 26, 2013

base term patent term adjustment 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.

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.

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 79 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Mar 19, 2010, when application PCT/EP2010/053645, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 28, 2011)	Mar 19, 2030	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+79 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jun 6, 2030	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	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jun 6, 2030	High confidence

This family

US 8,591,642	this patent Jun 2030	Jun 2030
US 9,469,766	In force May 2030	May 2030

2 of 3 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
Oct 28, 2011 Reel 27142, frame 485	Hansen, Erling Lennart	Rockwool International A/S	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Aug 4, 2023 Reel 64502, frame 506	Rockwool International A/S	Rockwool A/S	Change of Name

Sources

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

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Alerts on its grants, lapses and transfers.

What's changing

Jun 2030

Term ends Jun 6, 2030. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 79 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2013 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.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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