Lapsed Oct 9, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 14, 2031
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Faro Technologies, Inc.
Filed Jan 14, 2011 as application 13/006,471 · Granted Oct 9, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Oct 9, 2024
2011
2031
Clock starts
Jan 14, 2011
Jan 14, 2011
No longer in force
Oct 9, 2024
Oct 9, 2024
Granted
Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 2012
Term would have run to
Jan 14, 2031
Jan 14, 2031
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.
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.
23
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 Jan 14, 2031: its 20-year base term, with no 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jan 14, 2011, when this application, 13/006,471, was filed | Jan 14, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Oct 9, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 9, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,533,967 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 8,284,407 | this patent Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 8,683,709 | In force Oct 2032 | Oct 2032 |
| Application 13/006,524 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2011/050787 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,638,446 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| US 8,832,954 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 8,875,409 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 2011 Reel 25638, frame 270 | Briggs, Clark H.; Danielson, David | Faro Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Citations
43
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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