Term ends Nov 6, 2030 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended May 6, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Parker-Hannifin Corporation
Filed Jul 7, 2006 as application 11/482,105 · Granted Nov 29, 2016
Base term plus 2010 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2030
Clock starts
May 6, 2005
May 6, 2005
Term ends
Nov 6, 2030
Nov 6, 2030
Granted
Nov 29, 2016
Nov 29, 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
2,010
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.
4
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 2010 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 May 6, 2005, when application 11/123,076, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 7, 2006); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | May 6, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +2010 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 6, 2030 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 11/123,076 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,504,860 | this patent Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| US 10,151,032 | In force no later than Nov 2026 | no later than Nov 2026 |
3 of 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2007 Reel 18965, frame 532 | King, Clare R.; Bansal, Vishal; Crotty, Leo J. Jr. | General Electric Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 3, 2014 Reel 31911, frame 797 | General Electric Company; BHA Group, Inc.; Altair Filter Technology Limited | BHA Altair, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 6, 2016 Reel 38365, frame 662 | King, Clare R.; Bansal, Vishal; Crotty, Leo J., JR. | BHA Group, Inc.; Protec, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 018965 Frame: 0532. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Apr 6, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | King, Clare R.; Bansal, Vishal; Crotty, Leo J., JR. | BHA Group, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 018965 Frame: 0532. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Apr 6, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | King, Clare R.; Bansal, Vishal; Crotty, Leo J., JR. | Protec, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 018965 Frame: 0532. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Apr 7, 2016 Reel 38557, frame 139 | King, Clare R.; Bansal, Vishal; Crotty, Leo J., JR. | BHA Group, Inc.; L&C Protec, Inc. D/B/A Cocoon | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Names Previously Recorded on Reel 018965 Frame 0532. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignees Should Be Listed As |
| Apr 7, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | King, Clare R.; Bansal, Vishal; Crotty, Leo J., JR. | BHA Group, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Names Previously Recorded on Reel 018965 Frame 0532. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignees Should Be Listed As |
| Apr 7, 2016 reel/frame not recorded | King, Clare R.; Bansal, Vishal; Crotty, Leo J., JR. | L&C Protec, Inc. D/B/A Cocoon | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Names Previously Recorded on Reel 018965 Frame 0532. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignees Should Be Listed As |
| May 13, 2022 Reel 60062, frame 932 | BHA Altair, LLC | Parker-Hannifin Corporation | Merger |
| Jun 24, 2022 Reel 60440, frame 130 | Parker-Hannifin Corporation | Parker Intangibles LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 27, 2023 Reel 63461, frame 669 | Parker Intangibles LLC | Parker-Hannifin Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2030
Term ends Nov 6, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 2010 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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