Term ends Jul 10, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 29, 2028
Held by Fina Technology, Inc.
Filed May 22, 2011 as application 13/113,063 · Granted Dec 16, 2014
Base term plus 536 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2008
2029
Clock starts
Dec 29, 2008
Dec 29, 2008
Term ends
Jul 10, 2029
Jul 10, 2029
Granted
Dec 16, 2014
Dec 16, 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
536
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 8,105,969.
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.
8
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 536 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 29, 2008, when application 12/345,593, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 22, 2011) | Dec 29, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +536 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 18, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,105,969) | capped to Jul 10, 2029 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 10, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,105,969 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| Application PCT/US2009/068899 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,912,109 | this patent Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2012/037699 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 13/957,106 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,022,710 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
| US 10,369,552 | In force Dec 2028 | Dec 2028 |
7 of 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2011 Reel 26628, frame 400 | Chinta, Sivadinarayana; Pelati, Joseph | Fina Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jul 2029
Term ends Jul 10, 2029.
Note
The 536 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 8,105,969.
Citations
31
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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.