Lapsed Oct 13, 2019 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 2, 2025
Why Medium: A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) with no resolved reference, so the term may end earlier.
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Snaptrack, Inc.
Filed Jan 6, 2006 as application 11/326,696 · Granted Oct 13, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1920 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 13, 2019
2005
2030
Clock starts
Sep 2, 2005
Sep 2, 2005
No longer in force
Oct 13, 2019
Oct 13, 2019
Granted
Oct 13, 2015
Oct 13, 2015
Term would have run to
Dec 5, 2030
Dec 5, 2030
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
1,920
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Unresolved
Terminal disclaimer
On file, reference document not resolved, so the date above is an upper bound. We do not guess the cap.
0 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.
79
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Dec 5, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 1920 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 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 Sep 2, 2005, when application 11/218,690, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 6, 2006) | Sep 2, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1920 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 5, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer on file (approved), reference document not resolved | no cap applied, and none guessed | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Oct 13, 2019 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 13, 2019 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 60/655,827 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 60/676,053 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,417,782 | Term ended Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 7,304,785 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2019 | Dec 2019 |
| US 7,304,786 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2019 | Dec 2019 |
| US 7,271,945 | Term ended Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| Application 60/751,909 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,158,106 | this patent Oct 2019 | Oct 2019 |
8 of 79 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 3, 2006 Reel 17428, frame 337 | Hagood, Nesbitt W.; McAllister, Abraham; Lewis, Stephen; Barton, Roger | Pixtronix, Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 21, 2011 Reel 27258, frame 642 | Hagood, Nesbitt W.; McAllister, Abraham; Lewis, Stephen; Barton, Roger | Pixtronix, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Misspelling of Assignee Name to Correctly Read Pixtronix, Inc. Previously Recorded on Reel 017428 Frame 0337. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Correction of Assignee Name to Read Pixtronix, Inc.. |
| Sep 2, 2016 Reel 39905, frame 188 | Pixtronix, Inc. | Snaptrack, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed
Note
The 1920 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Open question
A terminal disclaimer is on file (approved) and its reference document is not resolved. A disclaimer would cap the term earlier than Oct 13, 2019. We will not guess the cap.
Citations
123
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.