Term ended Sep 29, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 6, 2024
Held by Touchtable, Inc.
Filed Oct 20, 2009 as application 12/582,611 · Granted Sep 18, 2012
Base term plus 419 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Sep 29, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
Aug 6, 2004
Aug 6, 2004
Term ended
Sep 29, 2025
Sep 29, 2025
Granted
Sep 18, 2012
Sep 18, 2012
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
419
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,724,242, to Sep 29, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
3 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.
16
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 runs 419 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Aug 6, 2004, when application 10/913,105, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 20, 2009) | Aug 6, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +419 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 29, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,724,242) | resolves to Sep 29, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 29, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,728,821 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
| US 7,719,523 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 7,907,124 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| Application PCT/US2005/027811 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,724,242 | In force Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2006/019469 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,269,739 | this patent Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 8,139,043 | Term ended no later than Sep 2024 | no later than Sep 2024 |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2013 Reel 30651, frame 496 | Applied Minds, LLC | Touchtable, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2013 Reel 30713, frame 183 | Touchtable, Inc. | Qualcomm Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 19, 2013 Reel 30838, frame 48 | Hillis, W. Daniel; Ferren, Bran | Applied Minds, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 19, 2013 Reel 30838, frame 287 | Applied Minds, Inc. | Touchtable, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 419 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,724,242, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
186
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2012 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.