Term ends Jun 10, 2029 · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Held by Tecore, Inc.

Filed Jul 12, 2013 as application 13/940,534 · Granted May 3, 2016

Base term plus 173 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Jun 10, 2029

2008 2029

Clock starts
Dec 19, 2008

Term ends
Jun 10, 2029

Granted
May 3, 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

173

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

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 173 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Dec 19, 2008, when application 12/318,020, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 12, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Dec 19, 2028	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	+173 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jun 10, 2029	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	None on record	no cap applied	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	Jun 10, 2029	Medium confidence

This family

US 8,437,741	In force no later than Aug 2031	no later than Aug 2031
US 8,254,886	In force no later than Jul 2029	no later than Jul 2029
Application PCT/US2010/048726	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 8,744,180	In force Apr 2032	Apr 2032
US 8,825,011	In force Mar 2029	Mar 2029
US 9,295,071	In force no later than May 2029	no later than May 2029
US 9,332,412	this patent Jun 2029	Jun 2029
US 9,313,639	In force Jun 2029	Jun 2029

8 of 32 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

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

Jun 2029

Term ends Jun 10, 2029. Maintenance fees still fall due before then

Note

The 173 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. 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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