Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 28, 2025 (Gibraltar Business Capital, LLC).
Term ends Apr 16, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 16, 2028
Held by Formetco, LLC
Filed Mar 10, 2009 as application 12/401,569 · Granted Feb 12, 2013
Base term plus 598 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2008
2028
Clock starts
Apr 16, 2008
Apr 16, 2008
Term ends
Apr 16, 2028
Apr 16, 2028
Granted
Feb 12, 2013
Feb 12, 2013
base term
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
598
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 7,836,562.
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.
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 598 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Apr 16, 2008, when application 12/104,257, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 10, 2009) | Apr 16, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +598 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 5, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,836,562) | capped to Apr 16, 2028 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 16, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,836,562 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2018 | Nov 2018 |
| US 8,042,292 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2019 | Oct 2019 |
| US 8,020,260 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2019 | Sep 2019 |
| US 8,371,002 | this patent Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
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 7, 2009 Reel 22651, frame 502 | Franklin, Robert Lee; Gibb, John Dove; McMurray, Robert B. | Formetco, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 1, 2012 Reel 29575, frame 352 | Formetco, Incorporated | FCC, LCC D/B/A First Capital, a Florida LLC | Security Interest |
| May 19, 2015 Reel 35730, frame 203 | FCC, LCC D/B/A First Capital, a Florida LLC | Acf Finco I LP | Assignment and Assumption of Security Interests in Patents |
| Jul 21, 2020 Reel 53268, frame 968 | Formetco, Incorporated | Gibraltar Business Capital, LLC | Security Interest |
| Mar 16, 2022 Reel 59369, frame 362 | Formetco, Incorporated | Formetco, LLC | Conversion |
| Feb 15, 2024 Reel 66470, frame 494 | Formetco, LLC; Ad-Tech Imports, LLC | Fifth Third Bank, National Association | Security Interest |
| Feb 16, 2024 Reel 66617, frame 480 | Gibraltar Business Capital, LLC | Formetco, LLC; Ad-Tech Imports, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 16, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Gibraltar Business Capital, LLC | Formetco, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 16, 2024 reel/frame not recorded | Gibraltar Business Capital, LLC | Ad-Tech Imports, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 12, 2024 Reel 67704, frame 115 | Formetco, Incorporated | Formetco, LLC | Change of Name |
| Jan 28, 2025 Reel 70038, frame 887 | Formetco, LLC | Gibraltar Business Capital, LLC | Security Agreement |
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What's changing
Apr 2028
Term ends Apr 16, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 598 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 7,836,562.
Citations
11
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
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