Term ended Sep 14, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 29, 2023
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Oct 28, 2024.
Filed Dec 21, 2009 as application 12/643,763 · Granted Sep 25, 2012
Base term plus 260 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Sep 14, 2024
2003
2026
Clock starts
Dec 29, 2003
Dec 29, 2003
Term ended
Sep 14, 2024
Sep 14, 2024
Granted
Sep 25, 2012
Sep 25, 2012
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
260
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
3
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 260 days past its 20-year base term on 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 29, 2003, when application 10/749,108, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 21, 2009) | Dec 29, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +260 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 14, 2024 | 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Oct 28, 2024, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 14, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,660,755 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 8,275,354 | this patent Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 8,588,737 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2021 | Nov 2021 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 2011 Reel 27208, frame 726 | Amato, Cynthia Paige; Dibrell, Audrey L.; Jarboe, Andre D.; Kilinski, Andy; Loadwick, Robert; Mattackal, George; Millikan, Pamela H.; Reagan, Michael A.; Roman, Pamela | BellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 260 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2012 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
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