Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 28, 2025 (Gibraltar Business Capital, LLC).
Term ends Jan 21, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 21, 2040
Held by Formetco, LLC
Filed Mar 2, 2021 as application 17/190,108 · Granted Jan 17, 2023
Base term plus 40 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Jan 21, 2020
Jan 21, 2020
Term ends
Jan 21, 2040
Jan 21, 2040
Granted
Jan 17, 2023
Jan 17, 2023
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
40
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 10,971,482.
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.
5
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 40 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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, 2020, when application 16/748,098, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 2, 2021) | Jan 21, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +40 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 1, 2040 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,971,482) | capped to Jan 21, 2040 | 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 | Jan 21, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,971,482 | In force Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| US 11,557,575 | this patent Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| US 11,916,049 | In force Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| US 12,315,851 | In force Jan 2040 | Jan 2040 |
| Application 19/198,226 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2021 Reel 55576, frame 478 | Shimmin, Jim | Formetco, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 15, 2024 Reel 66470, frame 494 | Formetco, LLC; Ad-Tech Imports, LLC | Fifth Third Bank, National Association | Security Interest |
| Jun 12, 2024 Reel 67704, frame 115 | Formetco, Incorporated | Formetco, LLC | Change of Name |
| Jan 28, 2025 Reel 70038, frame 887 | Formetco, LLC | Gibraltar Business Capital, LLC | Security Agreement |
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What's changing
Jan 2040
Term ends Jan 21, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 40 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,971,482.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2023 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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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.