Term ends Nov 30, 2030 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 30, 2030
Held by Zonar Systems, Inc.
Filed Mar 2, 2020 as application 16/807,082 · Granted Oct 22, 2024
Base term plus 233 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
Nov 30, 2010
Nov 30, 2010
Term ends
Nov 30, 2030
Nov 30, 2030
Granted
Oct 22, 2024
Oct 22, 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
233
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 10,600,096, US 12,125,082.
0 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
14
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 233 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 1 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 Nov 30, 2010, when application 12/956,961, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 2, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Nov 30, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +233 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 21, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,600,096, US 12,125,082) | capped to Nov 30, 2030 | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Nov 30, 2030 | Low confidence |
This family
| Application 12/956,961 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 13/157,203 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,600,096 | In force no later than Nov 2031 | no later than Nov 2031 |
| US 10,665,040 | In force Nov 2030 | Nov 2030 |
| Application PCT/US2011/062480 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 14/940,047 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/231,177 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/231,160 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 2024 Reel 69466, frame 630 | Zonar Systems, Inc. | Twin Brook Capital Partners, LLC, as Agent | Security Interest |
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What's changing
Nov 2030
Term ends Nov 30, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 233 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 10,600,096, US 12,125,082.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
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