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US 8,786,668 In force
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Term ends Oct 28, 2027 · High confidence

Filed Feb 28, 2012 as application 13/407,217 · Granted Jul 22, 2014
Base term plus 282 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2007 2027
Clock starts
Jan 19, 2007
Term ends
Oct 28, 2027
Granted
Jul 22, 2014
base term patent term adjustment 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
282
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 8,125,508, to Oct 28, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
3
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 runs 282 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 19, 2007, when application 11/624,984, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 28, 2012)Jan 19, 2027High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+282 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 28, 2027High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,125,508)resolves to Oct 28, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 28, 2027High confidence

This family

US 8,125,508In force
Dec 2030
Dec 2030
US 8,786,668this patent
Oct 2027
Oct 2027
US 9,414,013In force
Feb 2027
Feb 2027
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Feb 28, 2012
Reel 27776, frame 758
Kenoyer, Michael L.Lifesize Communications, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 26, 2016
Reel 37900, frame 54
Lifesize Communications, Inc.Lifesize, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 2, 2020
Reel 52066, frame 126
Serenova, LLC; Lifesize, Inc.; Lo Platform Midco, Inc.Silicon Valley Bank, as Administrative Agent and Collateral AgentSecurity Interest
Mar 16, 2020
Reel 52179, frame 63
Lifesize, Inc.Westriver Innovation Lending Fund VIII, L.P.Security Interest
Mar 14, 2025
Reel 70932, frame 415
SL Midco 2, LLC; SL Midco 1, LLC; Lo Platform Midco, Inc.; Serenova, LLC; Lifesize, Inc.; Telestrat LLC; Light Blue Optics Inc.; Serenova WFM, Inc.Enghouse Interactive Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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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.

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