Term ends Nov 5, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 30, 2030
Held by Blue Leaf I.P., Inc.
Filed Aug 15, 2013 as application 13/967,873 · Granted Dec 22, 2015
Base term plus 72 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
Aug 30, 2010
Aug 30, 2010
Term ends
Nov 5, 2030
Nov 5, 2030
Granted
Dec 22, 2015
Dec 22, 2015
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
72
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 9,307,688.
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.
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 72 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Aug 30, 2010, when application 12/870,949, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 15, 2013) | Aug 30, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +72 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 10, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,307,688) | capped to Nov 5, 2030 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 5, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,522,889 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 9,215,837 | this patent Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| US 9,307,688 | In force Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| US 9,854,724 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| US 9,907,222 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 10,588,252 | In force Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
| US 10,512,202 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 11,483,957 | In force Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 2014 Reel 33289, frame 815 | Adams, Brian T.; Wendte, Keith W | CNH America LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 21, 2014 Reel 33361, frame 551 | CNH America LLC | CNH Industrial America LLC | Change of Name |
| Feb 20, 2015 Reel 34996, frame 385 | Adams, Brian T.; Wendte, Keith W. | CNH Industrial America LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 22, 2016 Reel 38982, frame 404 | CNH Industrial America LLC | Blue Leaf I.P., Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2030
Term ends Nov 5, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 72 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 9,307,688.
Citations
21
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.