Collateral for a security interest recorded Feb 1, 2022 (HSBC Bank USA, N.A.).

Term ends Aug 26, 2032 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Zodiac Pool Systems LLC

Filed Jul 11, 2016 as application 15/207,065 · Granted Jun 12, 2018

Base term plus 47 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Aug 26, 2032

2012 2032

Clock starts
Jul 10, 2012

Term ends
Aug 26, 2032

Granted
Jun 12, 2018

base term patent term adjustment fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

No effect

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,388,595, to Aug 26, 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.

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 47 days past its 20-year base term on 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: 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 Jul 10, 2012, when application 13/545,918, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 11, 2016)	Jul 10, 2032	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+47 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Aug 26, 2032	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,388,595)	resolves to Aug 26, 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
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Aug 26, 2032	High confidence

This family

US 9,388,595	In force Jan 2035	Jan 2035
US 9,995,051	this patent Aug 2032	Aug 2032
US 10,338,599	In force Jul 2032	Jul 2032
US 10,739,785	In force Jul 2032	Jul 2032
US 11,003,191	In force no later than Jul 2032	no later than Jul 2032
US 11,262,766	In force Jul 2032	Jul 2032
US 11,880,207	In force Jul 2032	Jul 2032
Application 18/529,301	Pending not computed	not computed

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
Aug 5, 2016 Reel 39599, frame 876	Durvasula, Kameshwar; Correa, William Londono	Aqua Products, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 5, 2018 Reel 46500, frame 291	Cover-Pools Incorporated; Zodiac Pool Systems LLC; Aqua Products, Inc.	Bank Of America, N.a.	Abl Intellectual Property Security Agreement
Jul 5, 2018 Reel 46622, frame 1	Cover-Pools Incorporated; Zodiac Pool Systems LLC; Aqua Products, Inc.	Credit Suisse International	Security Interest
Aug 28, 2020 Reel 54163, frame 305	Aqua Products, Inc.	Zodiac Pool Systems LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 1, 2022 Reel 58922, frame 901	Credit Suisse International	HSBC Bank USA, N.A.	Intellectual Property Security Agreement Assignment
Feb 3, 2022 Reel 58982, frame 912	Bank Of America, N.a.	Aqua Products, Inc.; Cover-Pools Incorporated; Zodiac Pool Systems LLC; Zodiac Pool Systems. Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Feb 3, 2022 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N.a.	Aqua Products, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Feb 3, 2022 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N.a.	Cover-Pools Incorporated	Release of Security Interest
Feb 3, 2022 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N.a.	Zodiac Pool Systems LLC	Release of Security Interest
Feb 3, 2022 reel/frame not recorded	Bank Of America, N.a.	Zodiac Pool Systems. Inc.	Release of Security Interest

Sources

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

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What's changing

Aug 2032

Term ends Aug 26, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 47 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Terminal disclaimer

A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,388,595, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 10% 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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.

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