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US 8,566,060 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Oct 22, 2025 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) with no resolved reference, so the term may end earlier.

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Precision Point Devices LLC
Filed Apr 5, 2010 as application 12/665,107 · Granted Oct 22, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 614 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 22, 2025
2009 2030
Clock starts
Mar 5, 2009
No longer in force
Oct 22, 2025
Granted
Oct 22, 2013
Term would have run to
Nov 9, 2030
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends fee events Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
614
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.

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 filingClock starts Mar 5, 2009, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Apr 5, 2010)Mar 5, 2029High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+614 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 9, 2030High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Oct 22, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 22, 2025Medium confidence

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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.

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