Institut Mines Telecom

85 patents currently held · Updated Nov 14, 2026

19 more in force are now held by other companies

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

Recorded under 3 name spellings.

Ending by 2030

May 2031

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When these terms end

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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 Jan 2 to 23, 2027 · next Jan 2
2 fees due Feb 1 to 22, 2027 · next Feb 1
3 fees due Mar 12 to 24, 2027 · next Mar 12
1 fee due Apr 8, 2027
The maintenance fee for Communication with everlasting security from short-term-secure encrypted quantum communication (US 10,439,808) comes due Apr 8, 2027. Unpaid by Oct 8, 2027, it lapses early.
3 fees due May 19 to 28, 2027 · next May 19
1 fee due Jun 17, 2027
The maintenance fee for Sequential decoding with stack reordering (US 10,511,461) comes due Jun 17, 2027. Unpaid by Dec 17, 2027, it lapses early.
2 fees due Jul 7 to 30, 2027 · next Jul 7
5 fees due Aug 11 to 27, 2027 · next Aug 11
1 fee due Sep 22, 2027
The maintenance fee for System for transmission over a multi-mode and/or multi-core optical fiber (US 9,294,146) comes due Sep 22, 2027. Unpaid by Mar 22, 2028, it lapses early.
2 fees due Oct 2 to 21, 2027 · next Oct 2

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Recent changes

1 of the patents on this record was 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 8,904,192	Method for Protecting a Programmable Cryptography Circuit, and Circuit Protected by Said Method In force Term ends May 15, 2031 · High confidence	In force	Term ends May 15, 2031	High confidence
US 9,036,997	Method and System for WDM Transmission with Chromato-Temporal Encoding In force Term ends May 23, 2032 · High confidence	In force	Term ends May 23, 2032	High confidence
US 10,262,438	Methods and devices for producing and processing representations of multimedia scenes In force Term ends Jun 17, 2032 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jun 17, 2032	From the USPTO record
US 9,294,146	System for transmission over a multi-mode and/or multi-core optical fiber In force Term ends Oct 30, 2032 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Oct 30, 2032	From the USPTO record
US 10,360,345	Systems and Methods of Notifying a Patient to Take Medication In force Term ends Feb 23, 2034 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Feb 23, 2034	High confidence
US 10,340,956	Map decoding method using augmented lattices In force Term ends Sep 29, 2034 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Sep 29, 2034	From the USPTO record
US 10,560,866	Method of handling packet losses in transmissions based on DASH standard and FLUTE protocol In force Term ends Apr 24, 2035 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Apr 24, 2035	From the USPTO record
US 10,491,300	Method and System of Optical Fibre with Switching of Modes And/Or Cores In force Term ends Jun 26, 2035 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Jun 26, 2035	High confidence
US 10,628,592	Methods for recovering secret data of a cryptographic device and for evaluating the security of such a device In force Term ends Jul 6, 2035 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jul 6, 2035	From the USPTO record
US 10,122,461	Method for Selecting Modes for Transmission Over Multimode or Multicore Optical Fibres In force Term ends Sep 4, 2035 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Sep 4, 2035	High confidence

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Sources and methods

Compiled from the USPTO record, grants, published applications and recorded assignments, not yet reviewed by hand. How this record was built

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.

6 pending · 9 abandoned · 15 no status recorded

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