Lapsed Oct 9, 2026 on the fee record · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 4, 2031
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.
Held by Malta Inc.
Filed Mar 4, 2011 as application 12/932,775 · Granted Oct 9, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 67 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 9, 2026
2011
2031
Clock starts
Mar 4, 2011
Mar 4, 2011
No longer in force
Oct 9, 2026
Oct 9, 2026
Granted
Oct 9, 2018
Oct 9, 2018
Term would have run to
May 10, 2031
May 10, 2031
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
67
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
4
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to May 10, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 67 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: Low. 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 Mar 4, 2011, when this application, 12/932,775, was filed | Mar 4, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +67 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 10, 2031 | 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 | No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case" | lapsed Oct 9, 2026 | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 9, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| Application 61/339,577 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,094,219 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 9,932,830 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 10,907,513 | In force Mar 2031 | Mar 2031 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2013 Reel 30805, frame 802 | Laughlin, Robert B. | Gigawatt Day Storage Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 14, 2016 Reel 40312, frame 385 | Gigawatt Day Storage Systems, Inc. | Google Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 6, 2017 Reel 44142, frame 357 | Google Inc. | Google LLC | Change of Name |
| Nov 27, 2017 Reel 44511, frame 347 | Google Inc. | X Development LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 28, 2017 Reel 44969, frame 101 | Google Inc. | X Development LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 20, 2018 Reel 47553, frame 392 | X Development LLC | Google LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 20, 2018 Reel 47553, frame 418 | Google LLC | Malta Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 67 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
65
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.