Term ends Nov 23, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 22, 2037
Held by Safe Rack LLC
Filed Mar 26, 2020 as application 16/830,579 · Granted Apr 29, 2025
Base term plus 611 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2038
Clock starts
Mar 22, 2017
Mar 22, 2017
Term ends
Nov 23, 2038
Nov 23, 2038
Granted
Apr 29, 2025
Apr 29, 2025
base term
patent term adjustment
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
611
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
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 611 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Mar 22, 2017, when application 15/466,465, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 26, 2020) | Mar 22, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +611 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 23, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | 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 | Nov 23, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 62/312,260 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,640,983 | In force Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| US 12,286,794 | this patent Nov 2038 | Nov 2038 |
| Application 19/181,973 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 2022 Reel 61933, frame 415 | Safe Rack LLC | Cerberus Business Finance Agency, LLC | Security Interest |
| Dec 12, 2024 Reel 69618, frame 487 | Cerberus Business Finance Agency, LLC | Safe Rack LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 12, 2024 Reel 69618, frame 509 | Safe Rack LLC | Bank of America, N.A., as the Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Nov 2038
Term ends Nov 23, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 611 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
Fewer than half of the utility patents granted in 2025 in our data have been cited yet, so we show the count and do not rank on it.
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
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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.