Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 17, 2023 (Royal Bank of Canada).
Term ended May 18, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 16, 2025
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Jul 14, 2025.
Held by Copeland LP
Filed Aug 31, 2015 as application 14/841,058 · Granted Jun 6, 2017
Base term plus 91 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended May 18, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Feb 16, 2005
Feb 16, 2005
Term ended
May 18, 2025
May 18, 2025
Granted
Jun 6, 2017
Jun 6, 2017
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
91
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it 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 runs 91 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Feb 16, 2005, when application 11/059,646, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 31, 2015) | Feb 16, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +91 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 18, 2025 | 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 | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Jul 14, 2025, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 18, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,412,842 | Term ended Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| US 7,458,223 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 7,878,006 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,484,376 | Term ended no later than Jun 2026 | no later than Jun 2026 |
| US 7,905,098 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 8,474,278 | Term ended Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 9,121,407 | Term ended Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 9,669,498 | this patent May 2025 | May 2025 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2023 Reel 64058, frame 724 | Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc. | Copeland LP | Entity Conversion |
| Jul 17, 2023 Reel 64278, frame 598 | Copeland LP | Royal Bank of Canada, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jul 17, 2023 Reel 64279, frame 327 | Copeland LP | U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Notes Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jul 17, 2023 Reel 64280, frame 695 | Copeland LP | Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
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Note
The 91 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
24
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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