Term ended Jun 17, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 16, 2022
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on May 11, 2026.
Held by Servstor Technologies, LLC
Filed Feb 11, 2011 as application 13/026,093 · Granted Apr 8, 2014
Base term plus 183 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jun 17, 2023
2002
2026
Clock starts
Dec 16, 2002
Dec 16, 2002
Term ended
Jun 17, 2023
Jun 17, 2023
Granted
Apr 8, 2014
Apr 8, 2014
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
183
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. 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.
This patent's term runs 183 days past its 20-year base term on 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 Dec 16, 2002, when application PCT/US2002/040205, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 11, 2011) | Dec 16, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +183 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 17, 2023 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on May 11, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 17, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,643,476 | Term ended no later than Jan 2026 | no later than Jan 2026 |
| US 7,602,773 | Term ended Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 7,698,526 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 7,688,814 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 7,742,473 | Term ended Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| US 7,649,880 | Term ended Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 7,916,727 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 8,694,640 | this patent Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2011 Reel 25820, frame 879 | Zetera Corporation | Rateze Remote MGMT. L.L.C. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 20, 2020 Reel 52437, frame 635 | Rateze Remote MGMT. L.L.C. | Intellectual Ventures I LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 24, 2021 Reel 57274, frame 141 | Intellectual Ventures I LLC | Intellectual Ventures Assets 177 LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 4, 2022 Reel 58537, frame 356 | Intellectual Ventures Assets 177 LLC | Servstor Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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.
What's changing
Note
The 183 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is below 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.