Collateral for a security interest recorded Oct 2, 2026 (National Bank of Canada).
Term ends Jul 8, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 20, 2029
Held by Saco Technologies Inc.
Filed Apr 20, 2009 as application 12/426,531 · Granted Jan 14, 2014
Base term plus 79 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
Apr 20, 2009
Apr 20, 2009
Term ends
Jul 8, 2029
Jul 8, 2029
Granted
Jan 14, 2014
Jan 14, 2014
base term
patent term adjustment
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
79
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.
2
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 79 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 Apr 20, 2009, when this application, 12/426,531, was filed | Apr 20, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +79 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 8, 2029 | 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 | Jul 8, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,628,198 | this patent Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2010/030713 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
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 21, 2009 Reel 22718, frame 443 | Jalbout, Bassam D.; Wong, Brian | LSI Industries, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 30, 2015 Reel 36214, frame 10 | LSI Industries Inc. | LSI Saco Technologies Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 30, 2015 Reel 36225, frame 927 | LSI Saco Technologies Inc. | Saco Technologies Inc. | Change of Name |
| Oct 2, 2026 Reel 76628, frame 211 | Saco Technologies Inc. | National Bank of Canada | Confirmatory Security Agreement |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2029
Term ends Jul 8, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 79 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
31
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2014 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
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