Term ends no later than Mar 4, 2034 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

In force on USPTO's status record and by its fee record. A terminal disclaimer on file may shorten this term, possibly to a date already past; its reference document is unresolved, so the date above is an upper bound and no earlier date is guessed.

Held by Merlin Technology, Inc.

Filed Jan 2, 2013 as application 13/733,097 · Granted Mar 1, 2016

Base term plus 426 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Ends no later than Mar 4, 2034

2013 2034

Clock starts
Jan 2, 2013

Ends no later than
Mar 4, 2034

Granted
Mar 1, 2016

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

426

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.

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.

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 426 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is on file with no resolved reference, so no cap is applied and none is guessed. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Jan 2, 2013, when this application, 13/733,097, was filed	Jan 2, 2033	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+426 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Mar 4, 2034	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	2 of 3 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	no later than Mar 4, 2034	Medium confidence

This family

US 9,274,243	this patent no later than Mar 2034	no later than Mar 2034
Application PCT/US2013/020359	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 10,513,919	In force Feb 2033	Feb 2033
US 11,255,185	In force Jan 2033	Jan 2033
US 12,012,849	In force no later than Jan 2033	no later than Jan 2033
US 12,553,336	In force no later than Jan 2042	no later than Jan 2042
Application 19/536,601	Pending not computed	not computed

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
Feb 13, 2013 Reel 29806, frame 897	Chau, Albert W.; Lam, Loc Viet	Merlin Technology, Inc.	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.

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Alerts on its grants, lapses and transfers.

What's changing

Mar 2034

Term ends no later than Mar 4, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

A terminal disclaimer is on file and its reference is not resolved. No cap is applied and none is guessed

Note

The 426 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 Mar 4, 2034. We will not guess the cap.

Citations

114

later US patents cite this one

That is top 5% 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

This computed term ends no later than the date shown; an unresolved terminal disclaimer may end it earlier. 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.

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