Term ended Mar 24, 2026 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 24, 2025
Held by Clear Imaging Research, LLC
Filed Apr 9, 2012 as application 13/442,370 · Granted Dec 30, 2014
Base term plus 365 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Mar 24, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Mar 24, 2005
Mar 24, 2005
Term ended
Mar 24, 2026
Mar 24, 2026
Granted
Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 2014
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
365
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,154,607, to Mar 24, 2026. 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.
24
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 365 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. Confidence: Low. 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 Mar 24, 2005, when application 11/089,081, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 9, 2012); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Mar 24, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +365 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 24, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,154,607) | resolves to Mar 24, 2026, 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 |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 12274032, 11089081 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 24, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,331,723 | In force Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| US 8,154,607 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 8,922,663 | this patent Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 9,001,221 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 9,013,587 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 9,154,699 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 9,392,175 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 9,338,356 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
8 of 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 2014 Reel 34602, frame 757 | Ozluturk, Fatih M | Clear Imaging, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 12, 2016 Reel 39413, frame 669 | Clear Imaging, LLC | Clear Imaging Research, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 19, 2021 Reel 55959, frame 643 | Ozluturk, Fatih; Ozluturk & Co., LLC; Clear Imaging, LLC | Clear Imaging Research, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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.
What's changing
Note
The 365 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,154,607, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
8
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.