Lapsed Mar 18, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 10, 2031
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.
Filed Mar 10, 2011 as application 13/045,280 · Granted Mar 18, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 40 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Mar 18, 2026
2011
2031
Clock starts
Mar 10, 2011
Mar 10, 2011
No longer in force
Mar 18, 2026
Mar 18, 2026
Granted
Mar 18, 2014
Mar 18, 2014
Term would have run to
Apr 19, 2031
Apr 19, 2031
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
40
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.
13
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 Apr 19, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 40 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Mar 10, 2011, when this application, 13/045,280, was filed | Mar 10, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +40 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 19, 2031 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Mar 18, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 18, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,671,857 | this patent Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 8,434,416 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 8,601,962 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 9,351,441 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 9,392,741 | In force no later than Mar 2031 | no later than Mar 2031 |
| US 9,462,743 | In force no later than Mar 2031 | no later than Mar 2031 |
| US 9,609,804 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 10,076,073 | In force no later than Jun 2031 | no later than Jun 2031 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 2011 Reel 25963, frame 406 | Kowalchuk, Trevor Lawrence; Turner, Jack Donald | CNH Canada, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 22, 2014 Reel 34031, frame 155 | CNH Canada, Ltd. | CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd. | Change of Name |
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Note
The 40 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
35
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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