Lapsed Oct 20, 2019 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 10, 2022
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Neonode Smartphone LLC
Filed Jun 17, 2009 as application 12/486,033 · Granted Oct 20, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 789 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 20, 2019
2002
2026
Clock starts
Dec 10, 2002
Dec 10, 2002
No longer in force
Oct 20, 2019
Oct 20, 2019
Granted
Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015
Term would have run to
Feb 6, 2025
Feb 6, 2025
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
789
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 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
104
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 Feb 6, 2025: its 20-year base term plus 789 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 10, 2002, when application 10/315,250, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 17, 2009) | Dec 10, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +789 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 6, 2025 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Oct 20, 2019 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 20, 2019 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,095,879 | Term ended Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 7,880,732 | Term ended Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| US 8,339,379 | Term ended Jun 2024 | Jun 2024 |
| US 9,164,654 | this patent Oct 2019 | Oct 2019 |
| US 8,471,830 | In force Jul 2029 | Jul 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2010/023429 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,213,443 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2019 | Dec 2019 |
| Application 12/760,568 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 104 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 2012 Reel 27901, frame 950 | Goertz, Magnus; Shain, Joseph | Neonode Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 7, 2019 Reel 49099, frame 177 | Neonode Inc. | Aequitas Technologies LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 13, 2020 Reel 53196, frame 989 | Aequitas Technologies LLC | Neonode Smartphone LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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.
What's changing
Note
The 789 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
208
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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