Term ended Mar 13, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 13, 2022
Held by System Logistics Corporation
Filed Mar 13, 2002 as application 10/098,160 · Granted May 4, 2004
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Mar 13, 2022
2002
2026
Clock starts
Mar 13, 2002
Mar 13, 2002
Term ended
Mar 13, 2022
Mar 13, 2022
Granted
May 4, 2004
May 4, 2004
base term
after the term ends
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
13
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 13, 2002, when this application, 10/098,160, was filed | Mar 13, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 13, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 60/354,881 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 6,729,836 | this patent Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 6,871,116 | Term ended Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| Application 10/272,720 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,200,465 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2019 | Apr 2019 |
| US 7,007,791 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2018 | Mar 2018 |
| US 7,401,709 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2020 | Jul 2020 |
| US 7,184,855 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2019 | Feb 2019 |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 2010 Reel 24055, frame 336 | Stingel, Frederick John, JR.; Stingel, Frederick John, III; Stingel, Jeffrey William | Jayson Concepts | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 10, 2010 Reel 24055, frame 343 | Smith, James N. | Jayson Concepts | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 18, 2011 Reel 27264, frame 563 | Jayson Concepts | Illinois Tool Works Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 7, 2011 Reel 27341, frame 49 | Illinois Tool Works Inc. | Vertique, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 13, 2014 Reel 33095, frame 854 | Vertique, Inc. | Illinois Tool Works Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 14, 2016 Reel 40730, frame 177 | Illinois Tool Works Inc. | System Logistics Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Citations
60
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2004 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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