Term ended Jul 11, 2023 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 27, 2023
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Mar 4, 2024.
Filed Feb 17, 2014 as application 14/182,064 · Granted Jan 26, 2016
Base term plus 14 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 11, 2023
2003
2026
Clock starts
Jun 27, 2003
Jun 27, 2003
Term ended
Jul 11, 2023
Jul 11, 2023
Granted
Jan 26, 2016
Jan 26, 2016
base term
after the term ends
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
14
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,655,451, to Jul 11, 2023. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
1 of 1
Maintenance fees paid
One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.
7
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 14 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Jun 27, 2003, when application 10/607,962, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 17, 2014) | Jun 27, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +14 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 11, 2023 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,655,451) | resolves to Jul 11, 2023, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 1 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Mar 4, 2024, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 11, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,177,698 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 7,822,480 | In force Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
| US 7,904,167 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 8,670,835 | Term ended no later than Dec 2023 | no later than Dec 2023 |
| US 8,655,451 | Term ended Oct 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| US 9,079,041 | Term ended Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 9,242,106 | this patent Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
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Note
The 14 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,655,451, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
42
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2016 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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