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Term ends Dec 6, 2031 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds.

Held by Sram, LLC
Filed Dec 10, 2013 as application 14/102,013 · Granted Mar 22, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2011 2031
Clock starts
Dec 6, 2011
Term ends
Dec 6, 2031
Granted
Mar 22, 2016
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
9
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 6, 2011, when application 13/311,735, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 10, 2013)Dec 6, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsNo fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holdsIn forceMedium confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 6, 2031Medium confidence

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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
Jun 10, 2014
Reel 33063, frame 793
Reiter, Markus; Florczyk, Raymond; Braedt, HenrikSram, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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