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US 8,616,422 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Dec 31, 2017 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Aug 2, 2011 as application 13/196,762 · Granted Dec 31, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 175 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 31, 2017
2011 2032
Clock starts
Aug 2, 2011
No longer in force
Dec 31, 2017
Granted
Dec 31, 2013
Term would have run to
Jan 24, 2032
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
175
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
10
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 24, 2032: its 20-year base term plus 175 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 Aug 2, 2011, when this application, 13/196,762, was filedAug 2, 2031High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+175 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordJan 24, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Dec 31, 2017High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 31, 2017High confidence

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Application PCT/US2012/049309PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
8 of 10 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
Aug 25, 2015
Reel 36417, frame 715
Adelman, Gregory M.; Brennan, William R., JR.; Case, Richard N.Nite Ize, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 19, 2026
Reel 76014, frame 96
Nite Ize, Inc.Nite Ize, LLCChange of Name

Sources

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