Also listed on Stride Tool LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 10, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 21, 2034
Filed Aug 10, 2017 as application 15/673,768 · Granted May 26, 2020
Base term plus 323 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Jan 21, 2014
Jan 21, 2014
Term ends
Dec 10, 2034
Dec 10, 2034
Granted
May 26, 2020
May 26, 2020
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
323
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 10,452,061, to Dec 10, 2034. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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.
2
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 323 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. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 Jan 21, 2014, when application 14/160,006, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 10, 2017) | Jan 21, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +323 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 10, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,452,061) | resolves to Dec 10, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 10, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,452,061 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| US 10,663,959 | this patent Dec 2034 | Dec 2034 |
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, 2018 Reel 45005, frame 721 | Yenni, Edward; Vielhaber, Timothy; Rodgers, David; Podhradsky, John; Bergmann, James L.; Spohn, William P.; Northrup, William; Bonitati, Robert James | Stride Tool, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 23, 2020 Reel 54837, frame 926 | Stride Tool, Inc. | North Park Innovations Group, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Dec 2034
Term ends Dec 10, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 323 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 10,452,061, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2020 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.