Term ends Sep 22, 2032 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 1, 2031
Held by Via Technologies, Inc.
Filed Mar 6, 2012 as application 13/412,904 · Granted Apr 19, 2016
Base term plus 652 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2011
2032
Clock starts
Sep 1, 2011
Sep 1, 2011
Term ends
Sep 22, 2032
Sep 22, 2032
Granted
Apr 19, 2016
Apr 19, 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
652
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,880,851.
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.
22
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 652 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Sep 1, 2011, when application 13/224,310, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 6, 2012) | Sep 1, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +652 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 14, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,880,851) | capped to Sep 22, 2032 | High 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 | Sep 22, 2032 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,880,851 | In force Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
| US 9,032,189 | In force Feb 2033 | Feb 2033 |
| US 8,880,857 | In force Feb 2033 | Feb 2033 |
| US 8,924,695 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| US 9,317,288 | this patent Sep 2032 | Sep 2032 |
| US 9,043,580 | In force Jun 2033 | Jun 2033 |
| US 9,141,389 | In force Sep 2033 | Sep 2033 |
| US 9,146,742 | In force Oct 2033 | Oct 2033 |
8 of 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 2012 Reel 28181, frame 785 | Henry, G. Glenn; Parks, Terry; Hooker, Rodney E. | Via Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Sep 2032
Term ends Sep 22, 2032. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 652 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,880,851.
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is above 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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.