Term ends Nov 24, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 3, 2033
Held by Vioptix, Inc.
Filed May 3, 2013 as application 13/887,213 · Granted Jul 19, 2016
Base term plus 17 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2013
2033
Clock starts
May 3, 2013
May 3, 2013
Term ends
Nov 24, 2029
Nov 24, 2029
Granted
Jul 19, 2016
Jul 19, 2016
base term
after the term ends
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
17
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 8,798,799.
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.
36
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 17 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 May 3, 2013, when this application, 13/887,213, was filed | May 3, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +17 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 20, 2033 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,798,799) | capped to Nov 24, 2029 | 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 | Nov 24, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,186,112 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| US 9,345,439 | In force Jul 2033 | Jul 2033 |
| US 9,392,978 | this patent Nov 2029 | Nov 2029 |
| US 9,216,000 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| US 9,498,157 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
| Application PCT/US2013/054585 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,398,870 | In force May 2033 | May 2033 |
| US 9,888,872 | In force Aug 2033 | Aug 2033 |
8 of 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 2013 Reel 30570, frame 957 | Bechtel, Kate Leeann; Heanue, Joseph Anthony; Lloyd, Lester John | Vioptix, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Nov 2029
Term ends Nov 24, 2029. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 17 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 8,798,799.
Citations
3
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
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