Term ended Sep 19, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 19, 2026
Held by CFPH, LLC
Filed Jan 26, 2010 as application 12/693,668 · Granted Jul 1, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Sep 19, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Sep 19, 2006
Sep 19, 2006
Term ended
Sep 19, 2026
Sep 19, 2026
Granted
Jul 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,764,541, to Sep 19, 2026. 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.
32
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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 Sep 19, 2006, when application 11/533,300, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 26, 2010) | Sep 19, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,764,541) | resolves to Sep 19, 2026, 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 19, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,833,101 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 8,398,481 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 7,585,217 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
| US 8,764,541 | In force Jun 2031 | Jun 2031 |
| US 8,142,283 | In force Dec 2030 | Dec 2030 |
| US 7,997,973 | Term ended no later than Sep 2026 | no later than Sep 2026 |
| US 8,480,471 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| US 8,764,538 | this patent Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
8 of 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 2010 Reel 23847, frame 159 | Alderucci, Dean P; Gelman, Geoffrey M | CFPH, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,764,541, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
38
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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