Term ends Sep 10, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 29, 2030
Held by Icontrol Networks, Inc.
Filed Jan 21, 2014 as application 14/159,739 · Granted Mar 22, 2022
Base term plus 552 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
Apr 29, 2010
Apr 29, 2010
Term ends
Sep 10, 2030
Sep 10, 2030
Granted
Mar 22, 2022
Mar 22, 2022
base term
patent term adjustment
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
552
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,635,499, US 9,147,337.
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.
9
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 552 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Apr 29, 2010, when application 12/770,253, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 21, 2014) | Apr 29, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +552 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 2, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,635,499, US 9,147,337) | capped to Sep 10, 2030 | 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 | Sep 10, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,635,499 | In force Sep 2030 | Sep 2030 |
| US 11,284,331 | this patent Sep 2030 | Sep 2030 |
| US 10,275,999 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| Application 14/687,734 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,129,084 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| US 11,601,865 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| Application 17/443,427 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 11,665,617 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 2014 Reel 32292, frame 724 | Cohn, Alan Wade; Faulkner, Gary Robert; Kitchen, James Edward; Proft, David Leon; Quain, Corey Wayne | Icontrol Networks, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 8, 2022 Reel 59013, frame 879 | Icontrol Networks, Inc. | Icontrol Networks, Inc. | Assignee Address Change |
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What's changing
Sep 2030
Term ends Sep 10, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 552 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,635,499, US 9,147,337.
Citations
169
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.