Term ends Jun 18, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 5, 2026
Held by Anna Marie Fisher
Filed Nov 15, 2011 as application 12/746,408 · Granted Jun 2, 2015
Base term plus 1477 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2006
2029
Clock starts
Dec 5, 2006
Dec 5, 2006
Term ends
Jun 18, 2029
Jun 18, 2029
Granted
Jun 2, 2015
Jun 2, 2015
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
1,477
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 8,267,403.
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.
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 1477 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 5, 2006, when application 11/634,780, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 15, 2011) | Dec 5, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1477 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 21, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,267,403) | capped to Jun 18, 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 | Jun 18, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 11/634,780 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,926,810 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 8,267,403 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| Application 11/732,995 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,044,667 | this patent Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| Application 14/727,164 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,818,125 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 11,282,329 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
8 of 11 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
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
Jun 2029
Term ends Jun 18, 2029. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 1477 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 8,267,403.
Citations
15
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.