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Methods and Apparatus for Retrieving Images from a Large Collection of Images

US 7,840,076 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Nov 23, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Nov 22, 2006 as application 11/604,114 · Granted Nov 23, 2010
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1005 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Nov 23, 2022
2006 2029
Clock starts
Nov 22, 2006
No longer in force
Nov 23, 2022
Granted
Nov 23, 2010
Term would have run to
Aug 23, 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
1,005
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 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
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Its term would have run to Aug 23, 2029: its 20-year base term plus 1005 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. Confidence: High. from the record

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StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Nov 22, 2006, when this application, 11/604,114, was filedNov 22, 2026High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+1005 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordAug 23, 2029High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Nov 23, 2022High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderNov 23, 2022High confidence

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US 7,840,076this patent
Nov 2022
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US 8,200,027In force
Nov 2026
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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
Apr 13, 2010
Reel 24220, frame 650
Bouguet, Jean-yves; Dulong, Carole; Kozintsev, Igor V.; Wu, Yi; Nefian, Ara V.Intel CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest

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