Term ends Feb 18, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 22, 2028
Held by 9224-5489 Quebec Inc.
Filed Nov 3, 2015 as application 14/930,744 · Granted Oct 1, 2019
Base term plus 1002 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2031
Clock starts
May 22, 2008
May 22, 2008
Term ends
Feb 18, 2031
Feb 18, 2031
Granted
Oct 1, 2019
Oct 1, 2019
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,002
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
39
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 1002 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: High. 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 May 22, 2008, when application 12/125,908, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 3, 2015) | May 22, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1002 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 18, 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 | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 18, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,601,392 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| Application 13/798,969 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 13/799,029 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,430,495 | this patent Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 10,719,658 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
| Application 16/664,842 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/664,885 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 16/664,873 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 39 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 18, 2018 Reel 46378, frame 937 | Audet, Mathieu, M. | 9224-5489 Quebec Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 4, 2019 Reel 49086, frame 791 | Maya-Systems Inc. | Maya-Systems Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Jun 19, 2019 Reel 51489, frame 698 | Maya-Systems Inc. | 9224-5489 Quebec Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
| Jun 29, 2019 Reel 50133, frame 885 | Maya-Systems Inc. | 9224-5489 Quebec Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Data Previously Recorded at Reel: 049086 Frame: 0791. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment. |
| Nov 4, 2019 Reel 50917, frame 626 | Audet, Mathieu, MR | 9224-5489 Quebec Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2031
Term ends Feb 18, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1002 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
21
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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