Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 20, 2023 (Bank of America, N.A.).
Term ends Dec 31, 2040 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 31, 2040
Held by SharkNinja Operating LLC
Filed Dec 31, 2020 as application 17/139,681 · Granted Aug 20, 2024
Base term plus 470 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2020
2040
Clock starts
Dec 31, 2020
Dec 31, 2020
Term ends
Dec 31, 2040
Dec 31, 2040
Granted
Aug 20, 2024
Aug 20, 2024
base term
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
470
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 12,022,979.
0 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.
28
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 470 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 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 Dec 31, 2020, when this application, 17/139,681, was filed | Dec 31, 2040 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +470 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 15, 2042 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 12,022,979) | capped to Dec 31, 2040 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 31, 2040 | High confidence |
This family
| US 12,064,056 | this patent Dec 2040 | Dec 2040 |
| US 11,925,298 | In force no later than Aug 2042 | no later than Aug 2042 |
| US 11,641,978 | In force Dec 2040 | Dec 2040 |
| US 12,016,493 | In force Dec 2040 | Dec 2040 |
| US 11,154,163 | In force Dec 2040 | Dec 2040 |
| US 11,871,765 | In force Jun 2042 | Jun 2042 |
| US 11,324,358 | In force Dec 2040 | Dec 2040 |
| US 12,016,496 | In force Jun 2041 | Jun 2041 |
8 of 28 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2023 Reel 63590, frame 805 | Power, Michelle Hilary; Deng, Xu Sheng; Zhang, Ting Hua; He, Pushan; Chu, Ping | SharkNinja Operating LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 10, 2023 Reel 63590, frame 835 | O'loughlin, Nicholas Michael | SharkNinja Company Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 20, 2023 Reel 64600, frame 98 | SharkNinja Operating LLC | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
| Jun 21, 2024 Reel 67802, frame 694 | O'loughlin, Nicholas Michael | SharkNinja (Hong Kong) Company Limited | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Data Previously Recorded on Reel 63590 Frame 835. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
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What's changing
Dec 2040
Term ends Dec 31, 2040. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 470 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 12,022,979.
Citations
13
later US patents cite this one
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