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US 8,972,846 Lapsed on the fee record

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Lapsed Mar 3, 2019 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

Computed 20-year base term

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

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Filed Nov 17, 2006 as application 11/600,785 · Granted Mar 3, 2015

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1675 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Mar 3, 2019

1998 2026

Clock starts
Jan 30, 1998

No longer in force
Mar 3, 2019

Granted
Mar 3, 2015

Term would have run to
Sep 1, 2022

base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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

1,675

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

0 of 1

Maintenance fees paid

One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.

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 30, 1998, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Nov 17, 2006); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Jan 30, 2018	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	+1675 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Sep 1, 2022	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	0 of 1 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Mar 3, 2019	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Mar 3, 2019	From the USPTO record

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.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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.

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Lapsed Mar 3, 2019 on the fee record · From the USPTO record

20-year base term ended Jan 30, 2018

How we calculated this date

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