Method of shipping, tracking, and delivering a shipment of packages over an internet-based network employing the capture of shipping document images and recognition-processing thereof initiated from the point of pickup and completed while shipment is being transported to its first scanning point in the network, so as to sort and route packages using the original shipment number assigned to the package shipment

US 7,766,230 In force

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Term ends Jul 30, 2027 · From the USPTO record

Computed 20-year base term

Named at grant FedEx Corporate Services Inc. · find this owner

Filed Oct 31, 2007 as application 11/981,748 · Granted Aug 3, 2010

Base term plus 194 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Jul 30, 2027

2007 2027

Clock starts
Jan 17, 2007

Term ends
Jul 30, 2027

Granted
Aug 3, 2010

base term patent term adjustment 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

194

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

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.

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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 Jan 17, 2007, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Oct 31, 2007)	Jan 17, 2027	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+194 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jul 30, 2027	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	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jul 30, 2027	From the USPTO record

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Term ends Jul 30, 2027 · From the USPTO record

20-year base term ends Jan 17, 2027

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