Term ended May 8, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended May 8, 2026
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Impact Vision LLC
Filed Feb 13, 2008 as application 12/069,899 · Granted Apr 12, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended May 8, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
May 8, 2006
May 8, 2006
Term ended
May 8, 2026
May 8, 2026
Granted
Apr 12, 2011
Apr 12, 2011
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.
30
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: 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 May 8, 2006, when application 11/429,864, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 13, 2008); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | May 8, 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 | 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 | May 8, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 11/427,706 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,899,583 | In force Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
| US 8,836,580 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
| US 8,896,485 | In force Jan 2029 | Jan 2029 |
| US 7,924,149 | this patent May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 8,866,673 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 9,020,687 | Term ended Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 8,941,485 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
8 of 30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2014 Reel 32926, frame 145 | Mendelson, Ehud | Gamba Group Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 6, 2019 Reel 50633, frame 943 | Gamba Group Limited | Blue Umbrella LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 29, 2023 Reel 65702, frame 137 | Blue Umbrella LLC | Gamba Group Holdings LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 20, 2025 Reel 72975, frame 747 | Gamba Group Holdings LLC | Impact Vision LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Citations
316
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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