Also listed on Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Nov 15, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Nov 15, 2026
Held by Briefcam Ltd.
Filed Nov 20, 2009 as application 12/623,217 · Granted Feb 3, 2015
Base term plus 480 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2006
2026
Clock starts
Nov 15, 2006
Nov 15, 2006
Term ends
Nov 15, 2026
Nov 15, 2026
Granted
Feb 3, 2015
Feb 3, 2015
base term
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
480
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 8,514,248.
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.
7
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 480 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: Medium. 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 Nov 15, 2006, when application PCT/IL2006/001320, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 20, 2009); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Nov 15, 2026 | 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 | +480 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 9, 2028 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,514,248) | capped to Nov 15, 2026 | Medium 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 | Nov 15, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,949,235 | this patent Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 8,514,248 | In force no later than Nov 2026 | no later than Nov 2026 |
| US 8,818,038 | In force no later than Dec 2027 | no later than Dec 2027 |
3 of 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2010 Reel 23877, frame 145 | Peleg, Shmuel; Pritch, Yael; Ratovitch, Sarit; Hendel, Avishai | Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 8, 2018 Reel 46581, frame 151 | Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd. | Briefcam Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Nov 2026
Term ends Nov 15, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 480 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 8,514,248.
Citations
21
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 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.