Term ended May 14, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 3, 2026
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Vijim Limited
Filed May 9, 2007 as application 11/801,234 · Granted Feb 22, 2011
Base term plus 131 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended May 14, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Jan 3, 2006
Jan 3, 2006
Term ended
May 14, 2026
May 14, 2026
Granted
Feb 22, 2011
Feb 22, 2011
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
131
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.
20
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 131 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jan 3, 2006, when application 11/324,994, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 9, 2007); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 3, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +131 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 14, 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 | May 14, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 11/324,994 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,096,026 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2020 | Jan 2020 |
| Application 11/715,817 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,891,615 | this patent May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 8,297,566 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| Application 11/895,020 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/901,254 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/058,519 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2010 Reel 25043, frame 121 | Bevirt, Joeben | Joby, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 27, 2010 Reel 25048, frame 775 | Joby, Inc. | Joby Photo, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Sep 1, 2011 Reel 26843, frame 837 | Joby Photo, Inc.; Joby, Inc. | General Electric Capital Corporation, as Agent | Security Agreement |
| Aug 7, 2013 Reel 30954, frame 204 | Joby Photo, Inc. | Daymen US, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 13, 2015 Reel 37109, frame 887 | General Electric Capital Corporation, as Retiring Agent | Antares Capital LP, as Successor Agent | Assignment of Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Sep 26, 2017 Reel 43943, frame 439 | Daymen US, Inc. | Vitec Holdings Italia SRL | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 27, 2017 Reel 43713, frame 312 | Antares Capital LP | Joby Photo, Inc. and Joby, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 2, 2022 Reel 62053, frame 756 | Vitec Holdings Italia SRL | Vitec Imaging Solutions S.P.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 5, 2023 Reel 63851, frame 195 | Vitec Imaging Solutions S.p.A. | Videndum Media Solutions S.p.A. | Change of Name |
| Oct 15, 2025 Reel 72572, frame 822 | Vitec Imaging Solutions S.P.A. | Vijim Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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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.
What's changing
Note
The 131 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
56
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.