Method and System for Decoding

US 8,677,227 Surrendered on reissue

Surrendered on reissue Aug 4, 2026 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Surrendered on reissue Aug 4, 2026 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE50,983 and US RE51,025 and US RE51,036 and US RE51,037.

Held by Polar Technologies LLC

Filed Aug 24, 2011 as application 13/216,373 · Granted Mar 18, 2014

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 261 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Surrendered Aug 4, 2026

2011 2032

Clock starts
Aug 24, 2011

No longer in force
Aug 4, 2026

Granted
Mar 18, 2014

Term would have run to
May 11, 2032

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

261

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

3 of 3

Maintenance fees paid

Fees paid on this patent before its reissue. Those after fall due on the reissue, which carries the term on.

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 Aug 24, 2011, when this application, 13/216,373, was filed	Aug 24, 2031	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+261 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	May 11, 2032	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	3 of 3 maintenance fees paid	no change	High confidence
Reissue	US RE50,983 and US RE51,025 and US RE51,036 and US RE51,037 issued Aug 4, 2026, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252)	surrendered Aug 4, 2026	High confidence
Surrendered on reissue	The steps above, in order	Aug 4, 2026	High confidence

Sources

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

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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

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Method and System for Decoding

Surrendered on reissue Aug 4, 2026 · High confidence

20-year base term ends Aug 24, 2031

How we calculated this date

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