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99 patents currently held · Updated Nov 14, 2026

Held is read from USPTO's recorded assignments; a transfer never recorded there does not appear.

Recorded under 4 name spellings.

Ending by 2030

Nov 2027

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Fee deadlines

Maintenance fees fall due 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after grant. A missed fee ends a patent at the end of the six month grace period that follows, not on the due date.

2 fees due Dec 9 to 11, 2026 · next Dec 9
2 fees due Feb 8, 2027
1 fee due Mar 5, 2027
The maintenance fee for Providing Grave Information Using Augmented Reality (US 11,751,005) comes due Mar 5, 2027. Unpaid by Sep 7, 2027, it lapses early.
2 fees due Apr 3 to 24, 2027 · next Apr 3
1 fee due May 3, 2027
The maintenance fee for Methods and Systems for Implementing Ancestral Relationship Graphical Interface (US 9,177,266) comes due May 3, 2027. Unpaid by Nov 3, 2027, it lapses early.
1 fee due Jun 5, 2027
The maintenance fee for Topic Segmentation of Image-Derived Text (US 11,836,178) comes due Jun 5, 2027. Unpaid by Dec 6, 2027, it lapses early.
1 fee due Jul 30, 2027
The maintenance fee for Systems and Methods for Identifying and Segmenting Objects from Images (US 11,887,358) comes due Jul 30, 2027. Unpaid by Jan 31, 2028, it lapses early.
2 fees due Aug 2 to 4, 2027 · next Aug 2
3 fees due Oct 14 to 28, 2027 · next Oct 14
1 fee due Nov 3, 2027
The maintenance fee for System and Method for Creating a Family Tree Data Structure (US 9,330,418) comes due Nov 3, 2027. Unpaid by May 3, 2028, it lapses early.

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Recent changes

2 of the patents on this record were granted since Aug 16, 2026

Patents held now

Soonest term end first. Each date below is computed on that patent's own page, which shows the rule, the adjustments and the fee history it was derived from.

Patent	Title	Status	Expires	Confidence
US 7,734,092	Multiple Image Input for Optical Character Recognition Processing Systems and Methods In force Term ends Nov 30, 2027 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Nov 30, 2027	High confidence
US 7,724,981	Adaptive Contrast Control Systems and Methods In force Term ends Jul 21, 2028 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Jul 21, 2028	High confidence
US 7,908,315	Local Installation of Remote Software Systems and Methods In force Term ends Dec 17, 2028 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Dec 17, 2028	High confidence
US 7,756,289	Image Watermarking Systems and Methods In force Term ends May 11, 2029 · High confidence	In force	Term ends May 11, 2029	High confidence
US 8,938,439	Collaborative Systems and Methods for Constructing Representations of Data In force Term ends Jul 28, 2029 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Jul 28, 2029	High confidence
US 8,908,971	Devices, Systems and Methods for Transcription Suggestions and Completions In force Term ends Oct 26, 2029 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Oct 26, 2029	High confidence
US 7,945,116	Computer-Assisted Image Cropping for Book Scans In force Term ends Mar 14, 2030 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Mar 14, 2030	High confidence
US 8,600,980	Consolidated Information Retrieval Results In force Term ends Apr 12, 2030 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Apr 12, 2030	High confidence
US 8,356,023	Collaborative Systems and Methods for Constructing Representations of Data In force Term ends May 18, 2030 · High confidence	In force	Term ends May 18, 2030	High confidence
US 8,224,821	Systems and Methods for the Organized Distribution of Related Data In force (reinstated) Term ends May 24, 2030 · High confidence	In force (reinstated)	Term ends May 24, 2030	High confidence

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Sources and methods

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Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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Published applications

US patent applications published under this name that have not become patents. An application is published about eighteen months after its earliest filing; one that has not been published is in no public record.

15 pending · 7 abandoned

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