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Scene Preset Identification Using Quadtree Decomposition Analysis

US 10,248,869 In force
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Term ends Aug 18, 2029 · High confidence

Filed Sep 29, 2017 as application 15/720,971 · Granted Apr 2, 2019
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2009 2029
Clock starts
Aug 18, 2009
Term ends
Aug 18, 2029
Granted
Apr 2, 2019
base term 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 9,805,271, to Aug 18, 2029. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
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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 is 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. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. 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 18, 2009, when application 12/543,223, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 29, 2017)Aug 18, 2029High 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 9,805,271)resolves to Aug 18, 2029, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 2 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderAug 18, 2029High confidence

This family

US 9,805,271In force
Oct 2033
Oct 2033
Application PCT/US2010/045206PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 10,248,869this patent
Aug 2029
Aug 2029
US 10,796,164In force
Aug 2029
Aug 2029
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 19, 2017
Reel 44431, frame 290
Pepperwood Fund II, LPOmni AI, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 19, 2017
Reel 44431, frame 328
Giant Gray, Inc.Pepperwood Fund II, LPAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 19, 2017
Reel 44431, frame 356
Cobb, Wesley Kenneth; Blythe, Bobby Ernest; Gottumukkal, Rajkiran Kumar; Saitwal, Kishor Adinath; Xu, Gang; Yang, TaoBehavioral Recognition Systems, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 19, 2017
Reel 44906, frame 776
Behavioral Recognition SystemsGiant Gray, Inc.Change of Name
Mar 24, 2020
Reel 52216, frame 585
Omni AI, Inc.Intellective AI, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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