Vale Group LLC

25 patents currently held · Updated Nov 14, 2026

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

Previously recorded as Vulcan Inc. (to 2024)

Ending by 2030

Apr 2028

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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 6, 2026
The maintenance fee for Techniques for enhancing awareness of personnel (US 11,670,080) comes due Dec 6, 2026. Unpaid by Jun 7, 2027, it lapses early.
1 fee due May 5, 2027
The maintenance fee for Operations environment model and simulation to reduce operator error (US 10,469,327) comes due May 5, 2027. Unpaid by Nov 5, 2027, it lapses early.
1 fee due Jun 26, 2027
The maintenance fee for Physical games enhanced by augmented reality (US 11,850,514) comes due Jun 26, 2027. Unpaid by Dec 27, 2027, it lapses early.
1 fee due Aug 27, 2027
The maintenance fee for Underwater positioning system (US 11,912,382) comes due Aug 27, 2027. Unpaid by Feb 28, 2028, it lapses early.
2 fees due Sep 17 to 24, 2027 · next Sep 17
2 fees due Oct 9 to 21, 2027 · next Oct 9

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Recent changes

2 terms have 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 7,720,844	Method and System for Continuous, Dynamic, Adaptive Searching Based on a Continuously Evolving Personal Region of Interest In force Term ends Apr 30, 2028 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Apr 30, 2028	High confidence
US 9,367,807	Method and System That Provides Efficient Index-Based Retrieval of Rules In force Term ends Oct 17, 2033 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Oct 17, 2033	High confidence
US 10,594,940	Reduction of temporal and spatial jitter in high-precision motion quantification systems In force Term ends Jan 12, 2038 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jan 12, 2038	From the USPTO record
US 10,469,327	Operations environment model and simulation to reduce operator error In force Term ends May 3, 2038 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends May 3, 2038	From the USPTO record
US 10,628,982	Augmented reality techniques In force Term ends May 22, 2038 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends May 22, 2038	From the USPTO record
US 10,600,192	Multi-camera homogeneous object alignment In force Term ends Sep 13, 2038 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Sep 13, 2038	From the USPTO record
US 10,679,362	Multi-camera homogeneous object trajectory alignment In force Term ends Sep 21, 2038 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Sep 21, 2038	From the USPTO record
US 10,802,085	Magneto Optic Disk Imager In force Term ends Jan 24, 2039 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Jan 24, 2039	High confidence
US 11,134,276	Key and difference block video decompression In force Term ends Jan 30, 2039 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jan 30, 2039	From the USPTO record
US 11,044,404	High-precision detection of homogeneous object activity in a sequence of images In force Term ends Mar 8, 2039 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Mar 8, 2039	From the USPTO record

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Sources and methods

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