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Bezel-Less Acoustic Touch Apparatus

US 8,576,202 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods
Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 17, 2025 (JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.).

Term ends Oct 13, 2030 · Medium confidence

Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.

Filed Jan 24, 2011 as application 13/012,513 · Granted Nov 5, 2013
Base term plus 202 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2010 2030
Clock starts
Mar 25, 2010
Term ends
Oct 13, 2030
Granted
Nov 5, 2013
base term patent term adjustment 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
202
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
4
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 202 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 25, 2010, when application 12/732,132, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 24, 2011); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row)Mar 25, 2030High confidence
Continuity chainA parent in the chain could not be resolveddated from this application's own claimMedium confidence
Patent term adjustment+202 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 13, 2030High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 13, 2030Medium confidence

This family

Application 12/732,132Abandoned
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US 8,576,202this patent
Oct 2030
Oct 2030
US 9,552,106In force
no later than Mar 2030
no later than Mar 2030
US 10,678,379In force
Aug 2030
Aug 2030
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
Mar 8, 2011
Reel 25922, frame 692
Tanaka, YoshikazuTouch Panel Systems K.K.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 8, 2011
Reel 25922, frame 886
Gao, Ting; Kent, Joel C.; Haller, Jeffrey T.; Scharff, Daniel H.; Avery, Timothy O.Tyco Electronics CorporationAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 12, 2012
Reel 28357, frame 655
Tyco Electronics CorporationElo Touch Solutions, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 29, 2012
Reel 28486, frame 917
Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Credit Suisse AGPatent Security Agreement (First Lien)
Jun 30, 2012
Reel 28486, frame 941
Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Credit Suisse AGPatent Security Agreement (Second Lien)
Oct 31, 2017
Reel 44652, frame 421
Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral AgentSecurity Agreement
Nov 1, 2017
Reel 44346, frame 810
Credit Suisse AG, as Collateral AgentElo Touch Solutions, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Dec 14, 2018
Reel 47909, frame 833
Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Dec 19, 2018
Reel 47956, frame 114
Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as Collateral AgentSecurity Interest
Mar 27, 2025
Reel 70666, frame 540
Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Citizens Bank, N.a.Security Interest
Mar 27, 2025
Reel 70670, frame 714
Goldman Sachs Bank USAElo Touch Solutions, Inc.Release of Security Interests (First Lien) in Patents
Sep 30, 2025
Reel 72982, frame 372
Citizens Bank, N.a.Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.Release of Security Interest in Patents Recorded at Reel 070666/FRAME 0540
Dec 17, 2025
Reel 74005, frame 708
Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Collateral AgentPatent Security Agreement

Sources

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

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