Term ends Mar 14, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 10, 2031
Held by CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.
Filed Mar 25, 2011 as application 13/071,796 · Granted May 7, 2013
Base term plus 4 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
Mar 10, 2011
Mar 10, 2011
Term ends
Mar 14, 2031
Mar 14, 2031
Granted
May 7, 2013
May 7, 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
4
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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 runs 4 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Mar 10, 2011, when application 13/045,280, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 25, 2011) | Mar 10, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +4 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 14, 2031 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 14, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,671,857 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 8,434,416 | this patent Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
| US 8,601,962 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 9,351,441 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 9,392,741 | In force no later than Mar 2031 | no later than Mar 2031 |
| US 9,462,743 | In force no later than Mar 2031 | no later than Mar 2031 |
| US 9,609,804 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 10,076,073 | In force no later than Jun 2031 | no later than Jun 2031 |
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 28, 2011 Reel 26030, frame 303 | Engel, Gordon Anthony | CNH Canada, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 25, 2011 Reel 26174, frame 632 | Kowalchuk, Trevor Lawrence; Turner, Jack Donald | CNH Canada, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 22, 2014 Reel 34031, frame 155 | CNH Canada, Ltd. | CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd. | Change of Name |
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What's changing
Mar 2031
Term ends Mar 14, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 4 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
51
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2013 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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