Term ended Apr 27, 2025 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 24, 2020
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Jun 1, 2026.
Held by Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Filed Dec 15, 2005 as application 11/300,581 · Granted Apr 29, 2014
Base term plus 1646 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Apr 27, 2025
2000
2026
Clock starts
Oct 24, 2000
Oct 24, 2000
Term ended
Apr 27, 2025
Apr 27, 2025
Granted
Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014
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
1,646
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 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.
18
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 1646 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Oct 24, 2000, when application 09/694,712, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 15, 2005); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Oct 24, 2020 | 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 | +1646 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 27, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Jun 1, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 27, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 09/987,707 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/057,154 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,505,079 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2017 | Mar 2017 |
| US 7,868,912 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 9,892,606 | In force Feb 2027 | Feb 2027 |
| US 8,711,217 | this patent Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2006/002700 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2006/012556 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 2006 Reel 17600, frame 797 | Venetianer, Peter L.; Lipton, Alan J.; Hu, Yongton; Martone, Andrew J.; Yin, Weilhong; Yu, Li; Zhang, Zhong | Objectvideo, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 28, 2008 Reel 21744, frame 464 | Objectvideo, Inc. | RJF Ov, LLC | Grant of Security Interest in Patent Rights |
| Feb 24, 2012 Reel 27810, frame 117 | RJF Ov, LLC | Objectvideo, Inc. | Release of Security Agreement/Interest |
| Dec 18, 2014 Reel 34552, frame 491 | Objectvideo, Inc. | Avigilon Fortress Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 8, 2015 Reel 35387, frame 569 | Avigilon Fortress Corporation | HSBC Bank Canada | Security Interest |
| Aug 21, 2018 Reel 47032, frame 63 | HSBC Bank Canada | Avigilon Fortress Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 23, 2022 Reel 61746, frame 897 | Avigilon Fortress Corporation | Motorola Solutions, Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
Sources
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Note
The 1646 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
169
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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