Process and System for Encoding and Playback of Stereoscopic Video Sequences

US 9,479,755 Term ended

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Term ended Aug 18, 2023 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Dec 2, 2024.

Held by 3DN, LLC

Filed Aug 8, 2014 as application 14/455,042 · Granted Oct 25, 2016

Base term plus 131 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ended Aug 18, 2023

2003 2026

Clock starts
Apr 9, 2003

Term ended
Aug 18, 2023

Granted
Oct 25, 2016

base term patent term adjustment 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

131

Days of term adjustment

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

No effect

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,580,463, US 8,804,842, to Aug 18, 2023. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.

1 of 1

Maintenance fees paid

One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.

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 Apr 9, 2003, when the earliest non-provisional application in its chain was filed (this one was filed Aug 8, 2014)	Apr 9, 2023	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+131 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Aug 18, 2023	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,580,463, US 8,804,842)	resolves to Aug 18, 2023, no earlier than this term, so no change	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	1 of 1 maintenance fees paid	term ended	High confidence
USPTO status record	Recorded as expired for non-payment on Dec 2, 2024, after the term ended	no change	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Aug 18, 2023	High confidence

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.

Not on this page: the patent's family, its recorded assignments and its citation count. USPTO's assignment records, linked above, list every recorded assignment.

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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Process and System for Encoding and Playback of Stereoscopic Video Sequences

Term ended Aug 18, 2023 · High confidence

20-year base term ended Apr 9, 2023

How we calculated this date

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