Term ended May 5, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 5, 2026
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Oct 26, 2026.
Held by CFPH, LLC
Filed Sep 13, 2012 as application 13/615,440 · Granted Sep 23, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended May 5, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
May 5, 2006
May 5, 2006
Term ended
May 5, 2026
May 5, 2026
Granted
Sep 23, 2014
Sep 23, 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.
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.
26
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. 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 May 5, 2006, when application 11/418,939, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 13, 2012) | May 5, 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 | 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 Oct 26, 2026, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 5, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,644,861 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 7,549,576 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 8,939,359 | In force Jul 2030 | Jul 2030 |
| Application PCT/US2007/066873 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2008/057239 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,403,214 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| US 8,899,477 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 8,840,018 | this patent May 2026 | May 2026 |
8 of 26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2014 Reel 33511, frame 495 | Gelman, Geoffrey M.; Rushin, Ronald; Alderucci, Dean P.; Asher, Joseph M. | CFPH, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Citations
96
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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