Term ends Apr 13, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 18, 2033
Held by Skorpios Technologies, Inc.
Filed Jan 18, 2013 as application 13/745,577 · Granted Oct 14, 2014
Base term plus 85 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
Jan 18, 2013
Jan 18, 2013
Term ends
Apr 13, 2033
Apr 13, 2033
Granted
Oct 14, 2014
Oct 14, 2014
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
85
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
11
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 85 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Jan 18, 2013, when this application, 13/745,577, was filed | Jan 18, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +85 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 13, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 13, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,222,084 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2011/061951 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,445,326 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 8,735,191 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| US 8,859,394 | this patent Apr 2033 | Apr 2033 |
| US 8,722,464 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 9,461,026 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 9,159,631 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2013 Reel 30541, frame 341 | Dallesasse, John; Krasulick, Stephen B.; Creazzo, Timothy; Marchena, Elton | Skorpios Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 23, 2017 Reel 44272, frame 557 | Skorpios Technologies, Inc. | Pacific Western Bank | Security Interest |
| Nov 22, 2017 Reel 44751, frame 469 | Pacific Western Bank | Skorpios Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2033
Term ends Apr 13, 2033. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 85 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
63
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.