Term ends Feb 19, 2035 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 30, 2034
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Blue Leaf I.P., Inc.
Filed Mar 31, 2016 as application 15/086,797 · Granted Jun 5, 2018
Base term plus 112 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2014
2035
Clock starts
Oct 30, 2014
Oct 30, 2014
Term ends
Feb 19, 2035
Feb 19, 2035
Granted
Jun 5, 2018
Jun 5, 2018
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
112
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.
11
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 112 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 30, 2014, when applications 14/528,236, 14/528,345, 14/528,356 and 14/528,535, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Mar 31, 2016); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 30, 2034 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +112 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 19, 2035 | 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 19, 2035 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 61/914,686 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,516,798 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 9,554,497 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 9,706,699 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 9,596,799 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2021 | Mar 2021 |
| US 9,609,799 | In force no later than Dec 2034 | no later than Dec 2034 |
| US 10,028,423 | In force Apr 2035 | Apr 2035 |
| US 9,986,674 | this patent Feb 2035 | Feb 2035 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2016 Reel 38160, frame 961 | Sudbrink, Matthew R.; Shah, Kena; Knobloch, Dean A.; Henry, James W. | CNH Industrial America LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 9, 2018 Reel 47494, frame 78 | CNH Industrial America LLC | Blue Leaf I.P., Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2035
Term ends Feb 19, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 112 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
19
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.