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12 patents currently held · Updated Nov 14, 2026

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

Ending by 2030

May 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.

1 fee due Dec 30, 2026
The maintenance fee for Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products for highly reliable file delivery using compound and braided FEC encoding and decoding (US 9,071,274) comes due Dec 30, 2026. Unpaid by Jun 30, 2027, it lapses early.

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1 term has ended 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 7,533,324	System, method and apparatus for FEC encoding and decoding In force (reinstated) Term ends May 16, 2027 · From the USPTO record	In force (reinstated)	Term ends May 16, 2027	From the USPTO record
US 9,397,783	Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products for providing forward error correction with low latency In force Ends no later than Oct 18, 2027 · From the USPTO record	In force	Ends no later than Oct 18, 2027	From the USPTO record
US 10,164,736	Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products for providing forward error correction with low latency In force Term ends Nov 17, 2027 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Nov 17, 2027	From the USPTO record
US 8,245,096	System, method and apparatus for FEC encoding and decoding In force Term ends Dec 22, 2027 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Dec 22, 2027	From the USPTO record
US 7,739,580	System, method and apparatus for reducing blockage losses on information distribution networks In force Term ends Dec 26, 2027 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Dec 26, 2027	From the USPTO record
US 8,726,136	Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products for highly reliable file delivery using compound and braided FEC encoding and decoding In force Term ends Feb 4, 2029 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Feb 4, 2029	From the USPTO record
US 9,071,274	Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products for highly reliable file delivery using compound and braided FEC encoding and decoding In force Ends no later than Feb 4, 2029 · From the USPTO record	In force	Ends no later than Feb 4, 2029	From the USPTO record
US 7,949,778	Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products for providing packet-level FEC with higher throughput using user datagram protocol (UDP) In force Term ends Aug 13, 2029 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Aug 13, 2029	From the USPTO record
US 8,223,643	Method for packet-level FEC encoding a stream of source packets using shifted interleaving In force Term ends Jan 28, 2030 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jan 28, 2030	From the USPTO record
US 8,707,139	Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products for providing forward error correction with low latency In force Term ends Nov 13, 2030 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Nov 13, 2030	From the USPTO record

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