Lapsed May 27, 2022 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 7, 2026
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 8,138,891), so the cap could be lower.
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
Filed Jan 27, 2012 as application 13/359,628 · Granted May 27, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 245 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 27, 2022
2006
2026
Clock starts
Mar 7, 2006
Mar 7, 2006
No longer in force
May 27, 2022
May 27, 2022
Granted
May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014
Term would have run to
Nov 7, 2026
Nov 7, 2026
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
245
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,138,891, US 8,497,762, to Nov 7, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 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.
4
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 Nov 7, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 245 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: Medium. 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 Mar 7, 2006, when application 11/370,530, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 27, 2012) | Mar 7, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +245 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 7, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,138,891, US 8,497,762) | resolves to Nov 7, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 27, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 27, 2022 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,497,762 | In force Oct 2031 | Oct 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2007/005843 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,138,891 | In force no later than Dec 2026 | no later than Dec 2026 |
| US 8,736,423 | this patent May 2022 | May 2022 |
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 28, 2013 Reel 29896, frame 965 | Sensormatic Electronics, LLC | ADT Services GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 25, 2013 Reel 30289, frame 441 | ADT Services GmbH | Tyco Fire & Security GmbH | Merger |
| Oct 2, 2018 Reel 47182, frame 674 | Tyco Fire & Security GmbH | Sensormatic Electronics, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 3, 2018 Reel 47188, frame 715 | Tyco Fire & Security GmbH | Sensormatic Electronics, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 245 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,138,891, US 8,497,762, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
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
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.