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US 8,785,793 Term ended
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Term ended no later than Nov 22, 2024 · Medium confidence

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Aug 24, 2026.

Held by Weightech, Inc.
Filed Sep 23, 2010 as application 12/924,239 · Granted Jul 22, 2014
Base term plus 676 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Ended no later than Nov 22, 2024
2003 2026
Clock starts
Jan 16, 2003
Ended no later than
Nov 22, 2024
Granted
Jul 22, 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
676
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
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.

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 filingClock starts Jan 16, 2003, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Sep 23, 2010)Jan 16, 2023High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+676 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 22, 2024High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolvedno cap applied, and none guessedMedium confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 2 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
USPTO status recordRecorded as expired for non-payment on Aug 24, 2026, after the term endedno changeHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderno later than Nov 22, 2024Medium confidence

Sources

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

This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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