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Stabilization of Captured Images for a Robot

US 9,749,535 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Aug 29, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Google LLC
Filed Dec 23, 2016 as application 15/389,847 · Granted Aug 29, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Aug 29, 2025
2015 2035
Clock starts
Aug 10, 2015
No longer in force
Aug 29, 2025
Granted
Aug 29, 2017
Term would have run to
Aug 10, 2035
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,565,363, to Aug 10, 2035. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
2
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 Aug 10, 2035: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 10, 2015, when application 14/822,483, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 23, 2016)Aug 10, 2035High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,565,363)resolves to Aug 10, 2035, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Aug 29, 2025High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 29, 2025High confidence

This family

US 9,565,363In force
Oct 2035
Oct 2035
US 9,749,535this patent
Aug 2025
Aug 2025
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 23, 2016
Reel 40759, frame 559
Hatao, Naotaka; Ogura, TakashiGoogle Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 2, 2017
Reel 41868, frame 202
Google Inc.X Development LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Sep 11, 2017
Reel 43547, frame 563
X Development LLCSchaft Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Oct 5, 2017
Reel 44129, frame 1
Google Inc.Google LLCChange of Name

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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