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Blade Bushing for Rotary Knife

US 9,943,973 Term ended
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Term ended Jun 9, 2026 · High confidence

Filed Jun 30, 2015 as application 14/788,370 · Granted Apr 17, 2018
Base term plus 79 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Jun 9, 2026
2006 2026
Clock starts
Jun 9, 2006
Term ended
Jun 9, 2026
Granted
Apr 17, 2018
base term after the term ends 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
79
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 8,037,611, US 8,281,493.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
7
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 79 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 9, 2006, when application 11/423,266, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 30, 2015)Jun 9, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+79 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 27, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,037,611, US 8,281,493)capped to Jun 9, 2026High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 9, 2026High confidence

This family

Application 11/423,266Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 8,037,611In force
Aug 2028
Aug 2028
Application PCT/US2008/072367PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,281,493Term ended
Jun 2026
Jun 2026
US 9,168,663Term ended
Jun 2026
Jun 2026
US 9,943,973this patent
Jun 2026
Jun 2026
US 10,486,323Term ended
Jul 2026
Jul 2026
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jul 1, 2015
Reel 35997, frame 490
Levsen, Clark A.Hantover, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 18, 2019
Reel 49508, frame 725
Hantover, Inc.U.S. Bank National AssociationSecurity Interest
Sep 20, 2019
Reel 50441, frame 355
Hantover, Inc.Cit Northbridge Credit LLC, as AgentSecurity Interest
Sep 20, 2019
Reel 50445, frame 122
U.S. Bank National AssociationHantover, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Feb 3, 2025
Reel 70090, frame 95
Cit Northbridge Credit LLCHantover, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

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