Term ends Oct 12, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 6, 2032
Held by Skorpios Technologies, Inc.
Filed Sep 6, 2012 as application 13/605,633 · Granted Apr 19, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2012
2032
Clock starts
Sep 6, 2012
Sep 6, 2012
Term ends
Oct 12, 2030
Oct 12, 2030
Granted
Apr 19, 2016
Apr 19, 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,559,470.
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.
16
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 6, 2012, when this application, 13/605,633, was filed | Sep 6, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,559,470) | capped to Oct 12, 2030 | 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 | Oct 12, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,615,025 | In force no later than Oct 2030 | no later than Oct 2030 |
| US 8,605,766 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2021 | Dec 2021 |
| US 8,867,578 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| US 8,559,470 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2021 | Oct 2021 |
| US 8,368,995 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 9,318,868 | this patent Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 9,324,682 | In force Apr 2034 | Apr 2034 |
| Application 14/488,041 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 2013 Reel 30154, frame 95 | Creazzo, Timothy; Mizrahi, Amit; Krasulick, Stephen B. | Skorpios Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 23, 2017 Reel 44272, frame 557 | Skorpios Technologies, Inc. | Pacific Western Bank | Security Interest |
| Nov 22, 2017 Reel 44751, frame 469 | Pacific Western Bank | Skorpios Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
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What's changing
Oct 2030
Term ends Oct 12, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,559,470.
Citations
29
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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