Term ended no later than May 1, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 8, 2025
Held by Applied Invention, LLC
Filed Jan 14, 2020 as application 16/741,969 · Granted May 3, 2022
Base term plus 297 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Ended no later than May 1, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jul 8, 2005
Jul 8, 2005
Ended no later than
May 1, 2026
May 1, 2026
Granted
May 3, 2022
May 3, 2022
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
297
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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 297 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jan 14, 2020) | Jul 8, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +297 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 1, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium 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 | no later than May 1, 2026 | Medium 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 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 11,321,408 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 2020 Reel 51527, frame 99 | Hillis, W. Daniel; Bax, Eric; Callejas, Augusto; Kao, Harry; Kolehmainen, Mathias L. | Applied Minds, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 15, 2020 Reel 51527, frame 203 | Applied Minds LLC | Applied Invention, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 15, 2020 Reel 51618, frame 772 | Applied Minds, Inc. | Applied Minds LLC | Change of Name |
| Jan 27, 2020 Reel 51708, frame 692 | Applied Minds, LLC | Applied Invention, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignor Previously Recorded on Reel 051527 Frame 0203. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Jan 27, 2020 Reel 51708, frame 770 | Applied Minds, Inc. | Applied Minds, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded on Reel 051618 Frame 0772. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Change of Name. |
| Mar 21, 2023 Reel 63048, frame 599 | Hillis, W. Daniel; Bax, Eric; Callejas, Augusto; Kao, Harry; Kolehmainen, Mathias L. | Applied Minds, Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 297 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than May 1, 2026. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2022 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
This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.