Term ended Aug 17, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 3, 2022
Held by IGT Rhode Island LLC
Filed May 3, 2002 as application 10/138,761 · Granted Nov 30, 2010
Base term plus 1567 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Aug 17, 2026
2002
2026
Clock starts
May 3, 2002
May 3, 2002
Term ended
Aug 17, 2026
Aug 17, 2026
Granted
Nov 30, 2010
Nov 30, 2010
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,567
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.
41
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 1567 days past its 20-year base term on 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 May 3, 2002, when this application, 10/138,761, was filed | May 3, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1567 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 17, 2026 | 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 | Aug 17, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,841,932 | this patent Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 7,901,279 | Term ended Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
| US 7,017,805 | Term ended Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 8,128,473 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 7,028,907 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2018 | Apr 2018 |
| US 7,590,950 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 7,540,413 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 7,576,733 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
8 of 41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2002 Reel 13083, frame 473 | Sadri, Amir; Henderson, Robert Ross; Finnochio, Richard | Gtech Rhode Island Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 21, 2016 Reel 40096, frame 239 | Gtech Rhode Island Corporation | Gtech Rhode Island LLC | Change of Name |
| Sep 21, 2016 Reel 40096, frame 269 | Gtech Rhode Island LLC | IGT Rhode Island LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 1567 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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