Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 18, 2024 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).
Term ended Sep 6, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 3, 2025
Held by Snap One, LLC
Filed Feb 26, 2010 as application 12/714,353 · Granted Jan 29, 2013
Base term plus 215 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Sep 6, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Feb 3, 2005
Feb 3, 2005
Term ended
Sep 6, 2025
Sep 6, 2025
Granted
Jan 29, 2013
Jan 29, 2013
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
215
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,701,900, to Sep 6, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
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 215 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Feb 3, 2005, when application 11/051,516, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 26, 2010) | Feb 3, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +215 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 6, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,701,900) | resolves to Sep 6, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Sep 6, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,701,900 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| Application PCT/US2006/000653 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,364,085 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 2012 Reel 27725, frame 345 | Barnum, Walter | CONTROL4 Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 2, 2019 Reel 49948, frame 911 | CONTROL4 Corporation | UBS AG, Stamford Branch, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Dec 30, 2019 Reel 51446, frame 868 | CONTROL4 Corporation | Wirepath Home Systems, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 25, 2021 Reel 57298, frame 14 | Wirepath Home Systems, LLC | Snap One, LLC | Change of Name |
| Dec 9, 2021 Reel 58438, frame 975 | UBS AG, Stamford Branch | CONTROL4 Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 9, 2021 Reel 58439, frame 14 | Snap One, LLC | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding Inc. | Security Interest |
| Jun 17, 2024 Reel 67768, frame 139 | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Agent | Snap One, LLC | Security Release R/F 058439/0014 |
| Jul 18, 2024 Reel 68426, frame 446 | Snap One, LLC | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 215 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,701,900, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2013 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.