Lapsed Oct 3, 2025 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 23, 2027
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Phoenix Caliente LLC
Filed Jul 21, 2013 as application 13/947,082 · Granted Oct 3, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1082 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Oct 3, 2025
2007
2029
Clock starts
Apr 23, 2007
Apr 23, 2007
No longer in force
Oct 3, 2025
Oct 3, 2025
Granted
Oct 3, 2017
Oct 3, 2017
Term would have run to
Apr 19, 2029
Apr 19, 2029
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
1,082
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 8,371,251.
1 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.
14
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 Apr 19, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 1082 days of term adjustment for 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 Apr 23, 2007, when application 11/738,644, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 21, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Apr 23, 2027 | 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 | +1082 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 9, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,371,251) | capped to Apr 19, 2029 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Oct 3, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 3, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,614,367 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2021 | Nov 2021 |
| Application 12/615,331 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,371,251 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2021 | Feb 2021 |
| Application 13/069,363 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 13/467,551 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 13/555,122 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,776,102 | this patent Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 10,166,489 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2023 | Jan 2023 |
8 of 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2017 Reel 42088, frame 527 | Frick, F. Alan | Phoenix Caliente LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 1082 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 8,371,251.
Citations
7
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
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