Term ended Sep 2, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 2, 2025
Held by Snaptrack, Inc.
Filed Sep 2, 2005 as application 11/218,690 · Granted Aug 26, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Sep 2, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Sep 2, 2005
Sep 2, 2005
Term ended
Sep 2, 2025
Sep 2, 2025
Granted
Aug 26, 2008
Aug 26, 2008
base term
after the term ends
fee events
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.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
79
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. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Sep 2, 2005, when this application, 11/218,690, was filed | Sep 2, 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 | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 2, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 60/655,827 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 60/676,053 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,417,782 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 7,304,785 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2019 | Dec 2019 |
| US 7,304,786 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2019 | Dec 2019 |
| US 7,271,945 | Term ended Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| Application 60/751,909 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,158,106 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2019 | Oct 2019 |
8 of 79 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 2006 Reel 17177, frame 201 | Hagood, Nesbitt W.; Barton, Roger | Pixtronix, Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 21, 2011 Reel 27261, frame 562 | Hagood, Nesbitt W.; Barton, Roger | Pixtronix, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Street Address and Misspelling of Assignee Name to Read Pixtronix, Inc. Previously Recorded on Reel 017177 Frame 0201. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Correction of Street Address and Assignee Name to Read Pixtronix, Inc.. |
| Sep 2, 2016 Reel 39905, frame 188 | Pixtronix, Inc. | Snaptrack, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Citations
111
later US patents cite this one
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