Lapsed Jun 3, 2022 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 10, 2032
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Faro Technologies, Inc.
Filed Feb 10, 2012 as application 13/370,339 · Granted Jun 3, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 286 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 3, 2022
2012
2032
Clock starts
Feb 10, 2012
Feb 10, 2012
No longer in force
Jun 3, 2022
Jun 3, 2022
Granted
Jun 3, 2014
Jun 3, 2014
Term would have run to
Nov 22, 2032
Nov 22, 2032
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
286
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
39
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Nov 22, 2032: its 20-year base term plus 286 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Feb 10, 2012, when this application, 13/370,339, was filed | Feb 10, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +286 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 22, 2032 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 3, 2022 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 3, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,525,983 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2021 | Sep 2021 |
| US 8,422,034 | In force Sep 2031 | Sep 2031 |
| US 8,537,371 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| US 8,740,396 | this patent Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
| US 8,467,072 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2012/027083 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,619,265 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2012/028984 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 39 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 10, 2012 Reel 27682, frame 662 | Brown, Lawrence B.; Lasley, Daniel G.; Garey, Jeremy M.; Steffensen, Nils P. | Faro Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 286 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
24
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2014 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
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