Term ended Feb 16, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 16, 2024
Held by Illinois Tool Works Inc.
Filed Jan 22, 2007 as application 11/625,357 · Granted Oct 20, 2015
Base term plus 2137 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Feb 16, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
Apr 16, 2004
Apr 16, 2004
Term ended
Feb 16, 2025
Feb 16, 2025
Granted
Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
2,137
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,180,029.
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.
8
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 2137 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Apr 16, 2004, when application 10/709,148, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 22, 2007) | Apr 16, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +2137 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 21, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,180,029) | capped to Feb 16, 2025 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 16, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,180,029 | Term ended Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 8,592,724 | In force Jan 2030 | Jan 2030 |
| US 9,012,807 | In force Jan 2030 | Jan 2030 |
| US 9,162,311 | this patent Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2007/003672 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,758,994 | Term ended Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
| US 11,517,972 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 11,235,413 | Term ended Apr 2024 | Apr 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 2007 Reel 18860, frame 476 | Ott, Brian L. | Illinois Tool Works Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 2137 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,180,029.
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2015 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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