Term ended Jul 8, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 8, 2025
Held by Applied Invention, LLC
Filed May 2, 2022 as application 17/661,688 · Granted Aug 15, 2023
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Jul 8, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jul 8, 2005
Jul 8, 2005
Term ended
Jul 8, 2025
Jul 8, 2025
Granted
Aug 15, 2023
Aug 15, 2023
base term
after the term ends
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,996,486, to Jul 8, 2025. 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.
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 is 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
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| 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 May 2, 2022) | Jul 8, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,996,486) | resolves to Jul 8, 2025, 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 |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 8, 2025 | High 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 | Term ended no later than May 2026 | no later than May 2026 |
| US 11,727,072 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 2023 Reel 63050, frame 708 | Hillis, W. Daniel; Bax, Eric; Callejas, Augusto; Kao, Harry; Koehmainen, Mathias L. | Applied Minds, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 21, 2023 Reel 63125, frame 906 | Applied Minds, Inc. | Applied Minds, LLC | Change of Name |
| Mar 21, 2023 Reel 63140, frame 782 | Applied Minds, LLC | Applied Invention, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 10, 2023 Reel 63280, frame 449 | Hillis, W. Daniel; Bax, Eric; Callejas, Augusto; Kao, Harry; Kolehmainen, Mathias L. | Applied Minds, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the 5TH Inventor's Last Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 063050 Frame: 0708. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment . |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,996,486, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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