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US 8,514,986 Lapsed on the fee record
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Lapsed Aug 20, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

No current holder resolved from the recorded chain.
Filed Jan 25, 2011 as application 13/013,793 · Granted Aug 20, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 45 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 20, 2021
2007 2028
Clock starts
Dec 14, 2007
No longer in force
Aug 20, 2021
Granted
Aug 20, 2013
Term would have run to
Jan 28, 2028
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
45
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
9
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 28, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 45 days of term 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Dec 14, 2007, when applications 11/957,389, 11/957,391 and 11/957,393, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Jan 25, 2011)Dec 14, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+45 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 28, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 20, 2021High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 20, 2021High confidence

This family

US 8,045,660In force
May 2030
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US 8,130,880In force
Oct 2030
Oct 2030
US 7,876,869Lapsed on the fee record
Jan 2023
Jan 2023
Application PCT/US2008/064225PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,514,986this patent
Aug 2021
Aug 2021
US 9,020,079In force
Dec 2027
Dec 2027
US 9,252,825In force
Dec 2027
Dec 2027
US 9,577,690In force
Dec 2027
Dec 2027
8 of 9 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jun 17, 2021
Reel 56617, frame 116
Hypres, Inc.AvidbankSecurity Interest
Aug 6, 2024
Reel 68348, frame 909
AvidbankHypres, Inc.Release of Security Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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