Term ends Dec 2, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 3, 2025
Held by Resight, LLC
Filed May 9, 2017 as application 15/590,267 · Granted Nov 24, 2020
Base term plus 486 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2026
Clock starts
Aug 3, 2005
Aug 3, 2005
Term ends
Dec 2, 2026
Dec 2, 2026
Granted
Nov 24, 2020
Nov 24, 2020
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
486
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 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.
7
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 486 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 1 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 Aug 3, 2005, when application 11/196,951, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 9, 2017) | Aug 3, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +486 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 2, 2026 | 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 1 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 2, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,295,851 | In force Aug 2028 | Aug 2028 |
| US 9,178,991 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Application 14/927,832 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,628,464 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 10,846,313 | this patent Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 11,609,940 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| Application 17/513,450 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 2021 Reel 55716, frame 465 | Finnegan, Michael; Konicek, Jeffrey; Lisa, Steven G. | Resight, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
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
Dec 2026
Term ends Dec 2, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 486 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
18
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.