Collateral for a security interest recorded Feb 6, 2017 (General Electric Company).
Term ends Mar 21, 2032 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 21, 2032
Filed Oct 30, 2015 as application 14/928,456 · Granted Jan 2, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Mar 21, 2012
Mar 21, 2012
Term ends
Mar 21, 2032
Mar 21, 2032
Granted
Jan 2, 2018
Jan 2, 2018
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,194,524, to Mar 21, 2032. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 Mar 21, 2012, when application 13/426,377, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 30, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 21, 2032 | 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 | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,194,524) | resolves to Mar 21, 2032, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 13426377 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 21, 2032 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 9,194,524 | In force Mar 2033 | Mar 2033 |
| US 9,857,010 | this patent Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
| US 10,718,456 | In force Mar 2032 | Mar 2032 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2015 Reel 36925, frame 982 | Konishi, Howard | Macro Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 30, 2015 Reel 36926, frame 19 | Macro Technologies, LLC | Engineered Controls International, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 6, 2017 Reel 41181, frame 156 | Engineered Controls International, LLC | General Electric Company, As Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Feb 8, 2017 Reel 41199, frame 855 | Engineered Controls International, LLC | General Electric Company, As Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Oct 26, 2017 Reel 43955, frame 298 | General Electric Company (Successor in Interest by Merger to General Electric Capitalcorporation), as Administrative Agent | Ares Capital Corporation, as Successor Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Nov 5, 2019 Reel 50915, frame 514 | Engineered Controls International, LLC; Superior Products, LLC | Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
| Nov 11, 2019 Reel 50979, frame 150 | Ares Capital Corporation, as Successor Administrative Agent | Engineered Controls International, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2032
Term ends Mar 21, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,194,524, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2018 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.