Marking Apparatus Having Environmental Sensors and Operations Sensors for Underground Facility Marking Operations, and Associated Methods and Systems

US 8,770,140 Lapsed on the fee record

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Lapsed Jul 8, 2026 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: The fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case".

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended. The USPTO has not yet posted the lapse.

Held by Certusview Technologies, LLC

Filed Jun 9, 2010 as application 12/797,262 · Granted Jul 8, 2014

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 207 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Jul 8, 2026

2009 2030

Clock starts
Aug 11, 2009

No longer in force
Jul 8, 2026

Granted
Jul 8, 2014

Term would have run to
Mar 6, 2030

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

207

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 8,442,766, to Mar 6, 2030. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

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.

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 11, 2009, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Jun 9, 2010)	Aug 11, 2029	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+207 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Mar 6, 2030	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,442,766)	resolves to Mar 6, 2030, no earlier than this term, so no change	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	The fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case"	lapsed Jul 8, 2026	Medium confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jul 8, 2026	Medium confidence

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

Marking Apparatus Having Environmental Sensors and Operations Sensors for Underground Facility Marking Operations, and Associated Methods and Systems

Lapsed Jul 8, 2026 on the fee record · Medium confidence

20-year base term ends Aug 11, 2029

How we calculated this date

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