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

Collateral for a security interest recorded May 13, 2019 (Smarttruck Systems, LLC).

Term ends Jan 23, 2034 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Transtex LLC

Filed Mar 14, 2013 as application 13/827,512 · Granted Dec 8, 2015

Base term plus 315 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Jan 23, 2034

2013 2034

Clock starts
Mar 14, 2013

Term ends
Jan 23, 2034

Granted
Dec 8, 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

315

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 315 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 Mar 14, 2013, when this application, 13/827,512, was filed	Mar 14, 2033	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+315 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jan 23, 2034	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	Jan 23, 2034	High confidence

This family

US 9,205,778	this patent Jan 2034	Jan 2034
Application PCT/US2014/019780	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 9,428,228	In force Mar 2033	Mar 2033

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 14, 2013 Reel 30000, frame 875	Henderson, Michael Lorenzo; Wulff, Stephen Alfred	Smarttruck Systems, LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
May 14, 2015 Reel 35641, frame 544	Smarttruck Systems, LLC	Comerica Bank	Security Interest
Mar 26, 2019 Reel 48697, frame 847	Comerica Bank	RMB Holdings, LLC	Security Interest
Apr 12, 2019 Reel 48868, frame 150	RMB Holdings, LLC	Smarttruck Systems, LLC; Smarttruck Undertray Systems, LLC	Security Interest
Apr 12, 2019 Reel 48872, frame 81	Smarttruck Systems, LLC	Transtex LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 12, 2019 Reel 48872, frame 198	Smarttruck Undertray Systems, LLC	Transtex LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 12, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	RMB Holdings, LLC	Smarttruck Systems, LLC	Security Interest
Apr 12, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	RMB Holdings, LLC	Smarttruck Undertray Systems, LLC	Security Interest
May 13, 2019 Reel 49159, frame 398	RMB Holdings, LLC	Smarttruck Systems, LLC; Smarttruck Undertray Systems, LLC	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Nature of Conveyance Previously Recorded on Reel 048868 Frame 0150. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest.
May 13, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	RMB Holdings, LLC	Smarttruck Systems, LLC	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Nature of Conveyance Previously Recorded on Reel 048868 Frame 0150. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest.
May 13, 2019 reel/frame not recorded	RMB Holdings, LLC	Smarttruck Undertray Systems, LLC	Corrective Assignment to Correct the Nature of Conveyance Previously Recorded on Reel 048868 Frame 0150. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Security Interest.
Jun 26, 2020 Reel 53045, frame 548	Transtex LLC	BDC Capital Inc.	Security Interest
Jul 29, 2022 Reel 60671, frame 235	Transtex LLC	Bank of Montreal	Security Interest
Jun 21, 2024 Reel 67802, frame 50	BDC Capital Inc.	Transtex L.L.C., a Corporation of Indiana	Release of Security Interest
Jul 1, 2024 Reel 68104, frame 242	Transtex LLC	Bank of Montreal	Amended Security Interest
Feb 9, 2026 Reel 73736, frame 429	Transtex LLC	Bank of Montreal	Security Interest

Sources

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What's changing

Jan 2034

Term ends Jan 23, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 315 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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