Lapsed Aug 1, 2025 on the fee record · Medium confidence

Computed 20-year base term

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

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Kenu, Inc.

Filed Jun 10, 2015 as application 14/736,090 · Granted Aug 1, 2017

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

Lapsed Aug 1, 2025

2012 2032

Clock starts
Nov 20, 2012

No longer in force
Aug 1, 2025

Granted
Aug 1, 2017

Term would have run to
Nov 20, 2032

base term after the term ends 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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

1 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.

Its term would have run to Nov 20, 2032: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Nov 20, 2012, when application 29/437,793, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 10, 2015); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)	Nov 20, 2032	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	None on file	no change	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	1 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Aug 1, 2025	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Aug 1, 2025	Medium confidence

This family

US 9,080,714	In force Nov 2032	Nov 2032
Application PCT/US2014/038253	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 9,718,412	this patent Aug 2025	Aug 2025

3 of 4 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
Jul 31, 2015 Reel 36228, frame 307	Yao, David	Daymen US, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 17, 2015 Reel 37059, frame 443	Minn, Kenneth Y.; Yao, David E.	Kenu, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 2, 2015 Reel 37196, frame 879	Kenu, Inc.	Kenu, Inc.	Correction by Declaration of Incorrect Property for U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 14/736,090 Recorded at Reel/Frame No. 36228/307

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.

Citations

later US patents cite this one

That is top 25% 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.

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