Lapsed Jul 22, 2026 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 22, 2029
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Grace Engineering Corp.
Filed Jul 12, 2012 as application 13/547,537 · Granted Jul 22, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 229 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 22, 2026
2009
2030
Clock starts
Sep 22, 2009
Sep 22, 2009
No longer in force
Jul 22, 2026
Jul 22, 2026
Granted
Jul 22, 2014
Jul 22, 2014
Term would have run to
May 9, 2030
May 9, 2030
base term
patent term adjustment
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
229
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.
5
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 May 9, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 229 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Medium. 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 Sep 22, 2009, when application 12/564,508, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 12, 2012); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Sep 22, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +229 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 9, 2030 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 22, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 22, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,371,283 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| Application 12/646,073 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,424,511 | In force Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
| US 8,784,628 | this patent Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 8,651,097 | In force Sep 2029 | Sep 2029 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 2012 Reel 28536, frame 957 | Grace, Louis, JR.; Grace, Nathaniel E. | Grace Engineering Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 12, 2018 Reel 45517, frame 842 | Grace Engineering Corp.; G5 Outdoors, L.L.C.; Grace Properties of Memphis, L.L.C. | The Huntington National Bank | Security Interest |
| Aug 8, 2025 Reel 71971, frame 29 | The Huntington National Bank | Grace Engineering Corp.; G5 Outdoors, L.L.C.; Grace Properties of Memphis, L.L.C. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 8, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | The Huntington National Bank | Grace Engineering Corp. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 8, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | The Huntington National Bank | G5 Outdoors, L.L.C. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 8, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | The Huntington National Bank | Grace Properties of Memphis, L.L.C. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 229 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
22
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.
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