Term ended Oct 8, 2026 · Low confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 3, 2026
Filed Jul 9, 2014 as application 14/327,262 · Granted Mar 1, 2016
Base term plus 5 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 8, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Oct 3, 2006
Oct 3, 2006
Term ended
Oct 8, 2026
Oct 8, 2026
Granted
Mar 1, 2016
Mar 1, 2016
base term
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
5
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 8,792,858, to Oct 8, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 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.
6
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 5 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: 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 3, 2006, when application 11/542,507, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 9, 2014); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 3, 2026 | 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 | +5 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 8, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,792,858) | resolves to Oct 8, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 11542507 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 8, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 8,792,858 | In force Dec 2028 | Dec 2028 |
| US 9,276,961 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 11,153,755 | In force no later than Dec 2026 | no later than Dec 2026 |
| US 12,108,251 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 12,120,513 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| Application 18/830,287 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2022 Reel 60435, frame 1 | Swisscom AG | InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS | 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 5 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 8,792,858, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.