Also listed on Macro Technologies, LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Collateral for a security interest recorded Nov 5, 2019 (Bain Capital Credit, LP).

Term ends Feb 9, 2032 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by General Electric Company

Filed Aug 10, 2011 as application 13/206,828 · Granted Aug 25, 2015

Base term plus 183 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Feb 9, 2032

2011 2032

Clock starts
Aug 10, 2011

Term ends
Feb 9, 2032

Granted
Aug 25, 2015

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

183

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.

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 183 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Aug 10, 2011, when this application, 13/206,828, was filed	Aug 10, 2031	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+183 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Feb 9, 2032	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	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Feb 9, 2032	High confidence

This family

Application 60/672,700	Pending not computed	not computed
Application 60/995,893	Provisional application no patent term	no patent term
Application 12/286,534	Abandoned not computed	not computed
Application 61/372,204	Provisional application no patent term	no patent term
Application 61/454,696	Pending not computed	not computed
Application PCT/US2011/047282	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 9,115,838	this patent Feb 2032	Feb 2032
Application 61/717,597	Pending not computed	not computed

8 of 12 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
Feb 5, 2013 Reel 29753, frame 539	Konishi, Howard M.	Macro Technologies, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 29, 2014 Reel 32084, frame 339	Konishi, Howard	Macro Technologies, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 4, 2014 Reel 32160, frame 26	Macro Technologies, LLC	General Electric Capital Corporation, as Administrative Agent	Security Agreement
Nov 19, 2014 Reel 34207, frame 427	Macro Technologies, LLC	Engineered Controls International, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 6, 2017 Reel 41181, frame 156	Engineered Controls International, LLC	General Electric Company, As Administrative Agent	Security Interest
Feb 8, 2017 Reel 41199, frame 855	Engineered Controls International, LLC	General Electric Company, As Administrative Agent	Security Interest
Mar 7, 2017 Reel 41542, frame 918	General Electric Capital Corporation	General Electric Company	Merger
Oct 26, 2017 Reel 43955, frame 298	General Electric Company (Successor in Interest by Merger to General Electric Capitalcorporation), as Administrative Agent	Ares Capital Corporation, as Successor Administrative Agent	Security Interest
Oct 26, 2017 Reel 43955, frame 713	General Electric Company, As Administrative Agent	Ares Capital Corporation, as Successor Administrative Agent	Security Interest
Nov 5, 2019 Reel 50915, frame 514	Engineered Controls International, LLC; Superior Products, LLC	Bain Capital Credit, LP, as Administrative Agent	Security Interest
Nov 11, 2019 Reel 50979, frame 150	Ares Capital Corporation, as Successor Administrative Agent	Engineered Controls International, LLC	Release of Security Interest
Nov 11, 2019 Reel 50979, frame 223	Ares Capital Corporation, As Secured Party	Macro Technologies, LLC	Release of Security Interest

Sources

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

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What's changing

Feb 2032

Term ends Feb 9, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 183 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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