Also listed on Southern Company Services, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jun 21, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jun 21, 2027
Held by Suse LLC
Filed May 27, 2013 as application 13/902,926 · Granted Apr 29, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Jun 21, 2007
Jun 21, 2007
Term ends
Jun 21, 2027
Jun 21, 2027
Granted
Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
8
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jun 21, 2007, when application 11/766,503, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 27, 2013) | Jun 21, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 21, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,473,938 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| US 8,713,555 | this patent Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| US 9,032,382 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| US 9,645,846 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 10,318,274 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 10,620,939 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 11,194,567 | In force Jun 2027 | Jun 2027 |
| US 12,020,014 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 2020 Reel 53348, frame 214 | Feeser, Colin Lee | Southern Company Services, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 29, 2020 Reel 53348, frame 236 | Southern Company Services, Inc. | Open Invention Network LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 3, 2024 Reel 67604, frame 642 | Open Invention Network LLC | Suse LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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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
Jun 2027
Term ends Jun 21, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Citations
3
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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.