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US 8,733,527 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed May 27, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Dec 19, 2011 as application 13/379,097 · Granted May 27, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 12 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 27, 2026
2010 2030
Clock starts
Jun 21, 2010
No longer in force
May 27, 2026
Granted
May 27, 2014
Term would have run to
Jul 3, 2030
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
12
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
8
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Jul 3, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 12 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 21, 2010, when application PCT/CA2010/000978, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 19, 2011)Jun 21, 2030High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+12 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 3, 2030High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed May 27, 2026High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMay 27, 2026High confidence

This family

US 8,181,610In force
Aug 2028
Aug 2028
US 8,733,527this patent
May 2026
May 2026
US 8,464,668In force
May 2027
May 2027
US 9,273,591In force
May 2027
May 2027
US 10,072,627Lapsed on the fee record
Sep 2026
Sep 2026
5 of 8 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 19, 2011
Reel 27409, frame 365
Greene, Darrell F.Magna Powertrain Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 19, 2019
Reel 48641, frame 335
Magna Powertrain Inc.Magna Powertrain FPC Limited PartnershipAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 13, 2021
Reel 55902, frame 901
Magna Powertrain FPC Limited PartnershipHanon Systems Efp Canada Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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