Term ends Oct 26, 2027 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 26, 2027
Held by Sitnet, LLC
Filed Sep 13, 2012 as application 13/612,964 · Granted Sep 22, 2015
Base term plus 447 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Oct 26, 2007
Oct 26, 2007
Term ends
Oct 26, 2027
Oct 26, 2027
Granted
Sep 22, 2015
Sep 22, 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
447
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 7,812,717, US 8,045,455, US 8,358,609.
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.
34
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 447 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: 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 Oct 26, 2007, when application 11/924,711, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 13, 2012); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 26, 2027 | 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 | +447 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 15, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,812,717, US 8,045,455, US 8,358,609) | capped to Oct 26, 2027 | Medium 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 | Oct 26, 2027 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 7,711,475 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 8,045,455 | In force no later than Jul 2030 | no later than Jul 2030 |
| US 8,069,202 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 8,036,632 | In force Jun 2030 | Jun 2030 |
| US 8,826,139 | In force Sep 2030 | Sep 2030 |
| US 7,812,717 | In force Dec 2028 | Dec 2028 |
| US 8,249,932 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 8,000,893 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
8 of 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 2012 Reel 28985, frame 948 | Cona, Thomas; Igoe, Patrick T.; Kravets, Leonid | Resource Consortium Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 19, 2012 Reel 28985, frame 964 | Ehrlacher, Edward A. | Resource Consortium Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 19, 2019 Reel 50091, frame 297 | Resource Consortium Limited | Resource Consortium Limited, LLC | Re-Domestication and Entity Conversion |
| Nov 2, 2022 Reel 61630, frame 693 | Resource Consortium Limited, LLC | Sitnet, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2027
Term ends Oct 26, 2027. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 447 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 7,812,717, US 8,045,455, US 8,358,609.
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is below 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.