Term ended Dec 8, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 6, 2022
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Sep 7, 2026.
Held by STT Webos, Inc.
Filed Mar 4, 2008 as application 12/075,314 · Granted Aug 5, 2014
Base term plus 1195 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Dec 8, 2022
2002
2026
Clock starts
Aug 6, 2002
Aug 6, 2002
Term ended
Dec 8, 2022
Dec 8, 2022
Granted
Aug 5, 2014
Aug 5, 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
1,195
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,418,702, US 8,812,682.
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.
32
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 1195 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Aug 6, 2002, when application 10/713,904, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 4, 2008) | Aug 6, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1195 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 13, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,418,702, US 8,812,682) | capped to Dec 8, 2022 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Sep 7, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 8, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,418,702 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2016 | Aug 2016 |
| US 7,379,990 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2020 | May 2020 |
| US 7,945,652 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,799,473 | this patent Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 8,812,640 | Term ended Aug 2022 | Aug 2022 |
| US 8,589,527 | Term ended Aug 2022 | Aug 2022 |
| US 8,812,682 | Term ended Dec 2022 | Dec 2022 |
| US 8,341,258 | Term ended Aug 2022 | Aug 2022 |
8 of 32 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 16, 2017 Reel 41276, frame 240 | STT Webos, Inc.; Tsao, Sheng Tai | TS Patents LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 8, 2023 Reel 65812, frame 620 | TS Patents LLC | STT Webos, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 18, 2026 Reel 75137, frame 704 | STT Webos, Inc. (Texas) | STT Webos, Inc. (Delaware) | Reassignment |
Sources
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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.
What's changing
Note
The 1195 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,418,702, US 8,812,682.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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How we rank
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