Term ended Jun 8, 2023 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended May 21, 2023
Why Medium: The disclaimer's references carry disclaimers of their own not yet read (US 8,782,196), so the cap could be lower.
Held by Cornami, Inc.
Filed Jul 15, 2014 as application 14/331,741 · Granted May 30, 2017
Base term plus 190 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Jun 8, 2023
2003
2026
Clock starts
May 21, 2003
May 21, 2003
Term ended
Jun 8, 2023
Jun 8, 2023
Granted
May 30, 2017
May 30, 2017
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
190
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 7,653,710, US 8,200,799, US 8,782,196.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
6
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 190 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 May 21, 2003, when application 10/443,501, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 15, 2014) | May 21, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +190 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 27, 2023 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,653,710, US 8,200,799, US 8,782,196) | capped to Jun 8, 2023 | Medium confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 8, 2023 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,653,710 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 8,200,799 | Term ended Sep 2023 | Sep 2023 |
| US 8,782,196 | Term ended no later than Jun 2023 | no later than Jun 2023 |
| US 9,665,397 | this patent Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 10,185,502 | Term ended May 2023 | May 2023 |
| US 10,817,184 | Term ended May 2023 | May 2023 |
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, 2016 Reel 38835, frame 96 | Scheuermann, W. James | Quicksilver Technology, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 7, 2016 Reel 38835, frame 284 | Quicksilver Technology, Inc. | Techfarm Ventures Management, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 7, 2016 Reel 38835, frame 707 | Techfarm Ventures Management, LLC | QST Holdings, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 7, 2016 Reel 38835, frame 861 | QST Holdings, LLC | Sviral, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 14, 2016 Reel 38991, frame 626 | Scheuermann, W. James; Hogenauer, Eugene B. | Quicksilver Technology, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Erroneous Omission of the Second Inventor Previously Recorded on Reel 038835 Frame 0096. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Dec 9, 2016 Reel 40871, frame 147 | Sviral, Inc. | Cornami, Inc. | Change of Name |
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.
What's changing
Note
The 190 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 7,653,710, US 8,200,799, US 8,782,196.
Citations
6
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2017 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.