Lapsed Sep 5, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 28, 2035
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Compleat LLC
Filed Mar 28, 2015 as application 14/672,145 · Granted Sep 5, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Sep 5, 2025
2015
2035
Clock starts
Mar 28, 2015
Mar 28, 2015
No longer in force
Sep 5, 2025
Sep 5, 2025
Granted
Sep 5, 2017
Sep 5, 2017
Term would have run to
Mar 28, 2035
Mar 28, 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.
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.
6
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 Mar 28, 2035: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Mar 28, 2015, when this application, 14/672,145, was filed | Mar 28, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High 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 Sep 5, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 5, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,505,807 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 8,864,016 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 9,845,173 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 9,751,655 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 11,008,131 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2025 | May 2025 |
5 of 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 2016 Reel 37412, frame 365 | Herman, Peter; D'amato, Robert J. | Compleat LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Citations
30
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
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