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Variable Geometry Meter Roller

US 9,609,804 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Apr 4, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Feb 10, 2014 as application 14/177,012 · Granted Apr 4, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 130 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Apr 4, 2025
2011 2031
Clock starts
Mar 10, 2011
No longer in force
Apr 4, 2025
Granted
Apr 4, 2017
Term would have run to
Apr 19, 2031
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
130
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,671,857.
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.
13
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 Apr 19, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 130 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Mar 10, 2011, when application 13/045,280, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 10, 2014)Mar 10, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+130 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJul 18, 2031High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,671,857)capped to Apr 19, 2031High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Apr 4, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderApr 4, 2025High confidence

This family

US 8,671,857Lapsed on the fee record
Mar 2026
Mar 2026
US 8,434,416In force
Mar 2031
Mar 2031
US 8,601,962Lapsed on the fee record
Dec 2025
Dec 2025
US 9,351,441In force
Jun 2031
Jun 2031
US 9,392,741In force
no later than Mar 2031
no later than Mar 2031
US 9,462,743In force
no later than Mar 2031
no later than Mar 2031
US 9,609,804this patent
Apr 2025
Apr 2025
US 10,076,073In force
no later than Jun 2031
no later than Jun 2031
8 of 13 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
Mar 27, 2014
Reel 32548, frame 456
CNH Canada, Ltd.CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.Change of Name
Feb 22, 2017
Reel 41331, frame 970
Kowalchuk, Trevor Lawrence; Turner, Jack DonaldCNH Canada, Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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