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US 7,774,308 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Aug 10, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Jul 8, 2005 as application 11/177,789 · Granted Aug 10, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 333 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 10, 2022
2005 2026
Clock starts
Jul 8, 2005
No longer in force
Aug 10, 2022
Granted
Aug 10, 2010
Term would have run to
Jun 6, 2026
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
333
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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.
8
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Jun 6, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 333 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jul 8, 2005, when this application, 11/177,789, was filedJul 8, 2025High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+333 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJun 6, 2026High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 10, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 10, 2022High confidence

This family

US 7,774,308this patent
Aug 2022
Aug 2022
US 8,996,486In force
Aug 2028
Aug 2028
Application PCT/US2005/045815PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,024,377Term ended
Jul 2025
Jul 2025
US 8,131,781Term ended
no later than Jul 2025
no later than Jul 2025
US 10,552,496Term ended
Oct 2026
Oct 2026
US 11,321,408Term ended
no later than May 2026
no later than May 2026
US 11,727,072Term 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Sep 26, 2005
Reel 16582, frame 938
Hillis, W. DanielApplied Minds, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 15, 2011
Reel 26459, frame 864
Applied Minds, Inc.Applied Minds, LLCChange of Name
Jan 12, 2015
Reel 34750, frame 495
Applied Minds, LLCApplied Invention, LLCNunc Pro Tunc Assignment
Nov 4, 2026
Reel 76633, frame 214
Applied Invention, LLCAcme Agile Holdings LLCAssignment 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.

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