Term ended Jul 12, 2026 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 3, 2025
Held by Resight, LLC
Filed Oct 15, 2020 as application 17/071,787 · Granted Mar 21, 2023
Base term plus 343 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 12, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Aug 3, 2005
Aug 3, 2005
Term ended
Jul 12, 2026
Jul 12, 2026
Granted
Mar 21, 2023
Mar 21, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
343
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 10,846,313, to Jul 12, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
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 343 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: Low. 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 Oct 15, 2020); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Aug 3, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +343 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 12, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,846,313) | resolves to Jul 12, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | term ended | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 15590267, 15169862, 14927832, 13633277 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 12, 2026 | Low 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 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 11,609,940 | this patent 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
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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
Note
The 343 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 10,846,313, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
10
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2023 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.