Also listed on Source Technologies, LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Feb 20, 2033 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 19, 2032
Held by Hand Held Products, Inc.
Filed Oct 19, 2012 as application 13/655,598 · Granted Sep 9, 2014
Base term plus 124 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2012
2033
Clock starts
Oct 19, 2012
Oct 19, 2012
Term ends
Feb 20, 2033
Feb 20, 2033
Granted
Sep 9, 2014
Sep 9, 2014
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
124
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.
2
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 124 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Oct 19, 2012, when this application, 13/655,598, was filed | Oct 19, 2032 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +124 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 20, 2033 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 20, 2033 | High confidence |
This family
| Application PCT/US2012/060956 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,829,481 | this patent Feb 2033 | Feb 2033 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2013 Reel 30449, frame 327 | Bouverie, William M.; Hitz, Mark Allen | Source Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 6, 2013 Reel 30561, frame 640 | Source Technologies, LLC | Datamax-O'Neil Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 6, 2023 Reel 62308, frame 749 | Datamax-O'Neil Corporation | Hand Held Products, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 1, 2023 Reel 62639, frame 20 | Datamax-O'Neil Corporation | Hand Held Products, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Correct Name of the Assignee Is Hand Held Products, Inc.. Previously Recorded at Reel: 062308 Frame: 0749. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
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What's changing
Feb 2033
Term ends Feb 20, 2033. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 124 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
3
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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