Term ends May 20, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 20, 2031
Held by Skorpios Technologies, Inc.
Filed Apr 4, 2014 as application 14/245,191 · Granted Oct 4, 2016
Base term plus 43 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2011
2031
Clock starts
May 20, 2011
May 20, 2011
Term ends
May 20, 2031
May 20, 2031
Granted
Oct 4, 2016
Oct 4, 2016
base term
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
43
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 8,222,084, US 8,722,464.
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.
11
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 43 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 20, 2011, when application 13/112,142, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 4, 2014) | May 20, 2031 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +43 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 2, 2031 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,222,084, US 8,722,464) | capped to May 20, 2031 | 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 | May 20, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,222,084 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2011/061951 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,445,326 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 8,735,191 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
| US 8,859,394 | In force Apr 2033 | Apr 2033 |
| US 8,722,464 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 9,461,026 | this patent May 2031 | May 2031 |
| US 9,159,631 | In force Jan 2033 | Jan 2033 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2014 Reel 34064, frame 767 | Dallesasse, John; 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
May 2031
Term ends May 20, 2031. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 43 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 8,222,084, US 8,722,464.
Citations
7
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.