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Data-Driven Traffic Views with Continuous Real-Time Rendering of Traffic Flow Map

US 8,781,736 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jul 15, 2026 on the fee record · Medium confidence

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.

Filed Apr 17, 2006 as application 11/405,216 · Granted Jul 15, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 944 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jul 15, 2026
2006 2028
Clock starts
Apr 17, 2006
No longer in force
Jul 15, 2026
Granted
Jul 15, 2014
Term would have run to
Nov 16, 2028
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
944
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 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.

Its term would have run to Nov 16, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 944 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Apr 17, 2006, when this application, 11/405,216, was filedApr 17, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+944 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 16, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee eventsThe fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case"lapsed Jul 15, 2026Medium confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJul 15, 2026Medium confidence

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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jul 10, 2006
Reel 17901, frame 107
Cera, Christopher D.; Soulchin, Robert M.; Smyth, Brian J.; Agree, Jonathan K.; Auxer, Gregory A.; Matzelle, Brent R.; Balcerzak, Michal; Grubner, III, John B.; Smith, Eric R.Traffic.com, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 5, 2012
Reel 29108, frame 328
Traffic.com, Inc.Navteq B.V.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 26, 2014
Reel 33830, frame 681
Navteq B.V.Here Global B.V.Change of Name

Sources

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