Lapsed Jan 28, 2026 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 Sep 8, 2011 as application 13/227,504 · Granted Jan 28, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 224 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 28, 2026
2011
2031
Clock starts
Jan 14, 2011
Jan 14, 2011
No longer in force
Jan 28, 2026
Jan 28, 2026
Granted
Jan 28, 2014
Jan 28, 2014
Term would have run to
Aug 26, 2031
Aug 26, 2031
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
224
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
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 Aug 26, 2031: its 20-year base term plus 224 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jan 14, 2011, when applications 13/006,468, 13/006,507 and 13/006,524, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Sep 8, 2011) | Jan 14, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +224 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 26, 2031 | 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 Jan 28, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 28, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,533,967 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 8,284,407 | Lapsed on the fee record 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 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2011 Reel 26869, frame 927 | Briggs, Clark H. | Faro Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 224 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2014 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
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