Term ends Sep 8, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 3, 2032
Held by Thingz, Inc.
Filed Aug 3, 2012 as application 13/566,824 · Granted Jun 7, 2016
Base term plus 861 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Aug 3, 2012
Aug 3, 2012
Term ends
Sep 8, 2032
Sep 8, 2032
Granted
Jun 7, 2016
Jun 7, 2016
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
861
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 8,688,146.
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.
11
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 861 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 3, 2012, when this application, 13/566,824, was filed | Aug 3, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +861 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 12, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,688,146) | capped to Sep 8, 2032 | 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 | Sep 8, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 61/521,506 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,363,097 | this patent Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
| US 9,549,305 | In force Aug 2032 | Aug 2032 |
| US 10,462,601 | In force Aug 2032 | Aug 2032 |
| US 10,154,373 | In force Aug 2032 | Aug 2032 |
| US 10,812,931 | In force Aug 2032 | Aug 2032 |
| US 11,146,914 | In force Aug 2032 | Aug 2032 |
| US 11,601,777 | In force Aug 2032 | Aug 2032 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2020 Reel 53114, frame 886 | Grube, Gary W.; Quisenberry, Evan Edward; Buchalo, John Edward | The Safety Network Partnership | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 10, 2020 Reel 53176, frame 216 | Grube, Gary W.; Quisenberry, Evan Edward; Buchalo, John Edward | The Safety Network Partnership, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 25, 2025 Reel 71215, frame 157 | The Safety Network Partnership, LLC | Thingz, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Sep 2032
Term ends Sep 8, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 861 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 8,688,146.
Citations
62
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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