Term ends Jan 22, 2036 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 17, 2035
Held by CNH Industrial America LLC and Autonomous Solutions, Inc.
Filed Apr 17, 2015 as application 14/689,881 · Granted Nov 14, 2017
Base term plus 280 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2015
2036
Clock starts
Apr 17, 2015
Apr 17, 2015
Term ends
Jan 22, 2036
Jan 22, 2036
Granted
Nov 14, 2017
Nov 14, 2017
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
280
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.
3
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 280 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Apr 17, 2015, when this application, 14/689,881, was filed | Apr 17, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +280 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 22, 2036 | 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 | Jan 22, 2036 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 61/981,408 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,819,925 | this patent Jan 2036 | Jan 2036 |
| Application PCT/US2015/026388 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Morwood, Daniel J.; Baillio, Brad A.; Foster, Christopher A.; Jeppesen, Chad B.; Petroff, Thomas M.; Posselius, John H.; Turpin, Bret T.; Alberts, Joel | CNH Industrial America LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 17, 2015 reel/frame not recorded | Morwood, Daniel J.; Baillio, Brad A.; Foster, Christopher A.; Jeppesen, Chad B.; Petroff, Thomas M.; Posselius, John H.; Turpin, Bret T.; Alberts, Joel | Autonomous Solutions, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 17, 2015 Reel 35438, frame 187 | Posselius, John H.; Foster, Christopher A.; Turpin, Bret T.; Morwood, Daniel J.; Petroff, Thomas M.; Baillio, Brad A.; Jeppesen, Chad B.; Alberts, Joel | CNH Industrial America LLC; Autonomous Solutions, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Jan 2036
Term ends Jan 22, 2036. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 280 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
8
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2017 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.