Term ends May 2, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 13, 2027
Held by Certusview Technologies, LLC
Filed Feb 2, 2009 as application 12/363,951 · Granted Jul 21, 2015
Base term plus 781 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2029
Clock starts
Mar 13, 2007
Mar 13, 2007
Term ends
May 2, 2029
May 2, 2029
Granted
Jul 21, 2015
Jul 21, 2015
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
781
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
16
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 781 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Mar 13, 2007, when application 11/685,602, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 2, 2009) | Mar 13, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +781 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 2, 2029 | 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 2, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,640,105 | In force no later than Feb 2028 | no later than Feb 2028 |
| US 8,060,304 | In force Nov 2029 | Nov 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2008/055798 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,386,178 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| US 8,700,325 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 9,086,277 | this patent May 2029 | May 2029 |
| US 8,401,791 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2021 | Mar 2021 |
| US 8,478,523 | In force no later than Dec 2028 | no later than Dec 2028 |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2009 Reel 22611, frame 846 | Nielsen, Steven E.; Chambers, Curtis; Farr, Jeffrey; Conner, Mark A.; Vazquez, Rene A. | Certusview Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2029
Term ends May 2, 2029. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 781 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
151
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% 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.