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US 10,871,932 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Dec 22, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Feb 6, 2019 as application 16/269,356 · Granted Dec 22, 2020
USPTO first gave this application the number US 10,776,066 and withdrew it before it issued. That number now leads here.
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Dec 22, 2024
2014 2034
Clock starts
Nov 21, 2014
No longer in force
Dec 22, 2024
Granted
Dec 22, 2020
Term would have run to
Nov 21, 2034
base term after the term ends 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,248,372, US 9,582,237, to Nov 21, 2034. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 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.
5
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 Nov 21, 2034: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 21, 2014, when application 14/550,685, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 6, 2019)Nov 21, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,248,372, US 9,582,237)resolves to Nov 21, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Dec 22, 2024High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 22, 2024High confidence

This family

US 9,582,237Lapsed on the fee record
Feb 2025
Feb 2025
US 9,164,722Lapsed on the fee record
Oct 2023
Oct 2023
US 10,248,372Lapsed on the fee record
Apr 2023
Apr 2023
US 10,871,932this patent
Dec 2024
Dec 2024
US 11,531,511In force
no later than Nov 2034
no later than Nov 2034
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
May 6, 2019
Reel 49092, frame 445
Hall, William Y.Ultravision Holdings, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 3, 2020
Reel 52828, frame 174
Hall, William Y.Ultravision Technologies, LLCCorrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 49092 Frame: 445. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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