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Registration of a Personal Electronic Device (PED) with an Aircraft Ife System Using Aircraft Generated Registration Token Images and Associated Methods

US 8,856,838 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Oct 7, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Jun 22, 2010 as application 12/820,510 · Granted Oct 7, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 633 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 7, 2026
2010 2032
Clock starts
Jun 22, 2010
No longer in force
Oct 7, 2026
Granted
Oct 7, 2014
Term would have run to
Mar 16, 2032
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
633
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.
14
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Its term would have run to Mar 16, 2032: its 20-year base term plus 633 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jun 22, 2010, when this application, 12/820,510, was filedJun 22, 2030High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+633 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMar 16, 2032High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Oct 7, 2026High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 7, 2026High confidence

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US 10,291,495In force
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8 of 14 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Sep 2, 2010
Reel 24932, frame 848
Keen, R. Michael; Frisco, Jeffrey A.Livetv, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 29, 2020
Reel 52525, frame 713
Livetv, LLCThales Avionics, Inc.Merger

Sources

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