Also listed on Applied Minds, LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ended Oct 29, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 8, 2025
Held by Applied Invention, LLC
Filed Mar 4, 2015 as application 14/639,009 · Granted Feb 4, 2020
Base term plus 478 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 29, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jul 8, 2005
Jul 8, 2005
Term ended
Oct 29, 2026
Oct 29, 2026
Granted
Feb 4, 2020
Feb 4, 2020
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
478
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,996,486, to Oct 29, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
8
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 478 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Jul 8, 2005, when application 11/177,789, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 4, 2015) | Jul 8, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +478 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 29, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,996,486) | resolves to Oct 29, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 29, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,774,308 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2022 | Aug 2022 |
| US 8,996,486 | In force Aug 2028 | Aug 2028 |
| Application PCT/US2005/045815 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,024,377 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 8,131,781 | Term ended no later than Jul 2025 | no later than Jul 2025 |
| US 10,552,496 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 11,321,408 | Term ended no later than May 2026 | no later than May 2026 |
| US 11,727,072 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2017 Reel 42401, frame 316 | Hillis, W. Daniel; Bax, Eric; Callejas, Augusto; Kao, Harry; Kolehmainen, Mathias L. | Applied Minds, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 16, 2017 Reel 42401, frame 338 | Hillis, W. Daniel; Bax, Eric; Callejas, Augusto; Kao, Harry; Kolehmainen, Mathias | Applied Minds, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 16, 2017 Reel 42401, frame 345 | Applied Minds, LLC | Applied Invention, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 16, 2017 Reel 42522, frame 773 | Applied Minds, Inc. | Applied Minds, LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 478 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,996,486, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2020 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
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