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Stairlift Overspeed Safety Systems

US 11,603,287 In force, term unresolved
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 15, 2022 (Apogem Capital LLC).

Term ends no later than Nov 21, 2040 · Medium confidence

In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.

Filed Nov 19, 2020 as application 16/952,763 · Granted Mar 14, 2023
Base term plus 2 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2020 2040
Clock starts
Nov 19, 2020
Ends no later than
Nov 21, 2040
Granted
Mar 14, 2023
base term 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
2
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.
4
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 2 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. 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 Nov 19, 2020, when this application, 16/952,763, was filedNov 19, 2040High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+2 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 21, 2040High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Nov 21, 2040Medium confidence

This family

US 11,603,287this patent
no later than Nov 2040
no later than Nov 2040
US 11,505,429In force
Jan 2041
Jan 2041
Application PCT/US2021/060180PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 12,024,402In force
no later than Nov 2040
no later than Nov 2040
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
Nov 20, 2020
Reel 54432, frame 499
Pratt, Robert Alexander, IV; Nash, Derek J.; Hill, Mark L.; Jackson, Mark StevenHarmar Mobility, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 15, 2022
Reel 62102, frame 273
Harmar Mobility, LLCApogem Capital LLC, as AgentSecurity 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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