Term ended Dec 16, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 16, 2024
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Oct 19, 2026.
No current holder resolved from the recorded chain.
Filed Apr 2, 2010 as application 12/753,709 · Granted Sep 16, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Dec 16, 2024
2004
2026
Clock starts
Dec 16, 2004
Dec 16, 2004
Term ended
Dec 16, 2024
Dec 16, 2024
Granted
Sep 16, 2014
Sep 16, 2014
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,725,605, to Dec 16, 2024. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
4
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Dec 16, 2004, when application 11/016,566, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 2, 2010) | Dec 16, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,725,605) | resolves to Dec 16, 2024, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 Oct 19, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 16, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,725,605 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| US 8,838,833 | this patent Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| US 9,197,694 | Term ended Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| Application 14/949,505 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,725,605, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
29
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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
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