Term ended May 12, 2026 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended May 12, 2026
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
No current holder resolved from the recorded chain.
Filed Oct 8, 2013 as application 14/048,436 · Granted Dec 30, 2014
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended May 12, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
May 12, 2006
May 12, 2006
Term ended
May 12, 2026
May 12, 2026
Granted
Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 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.
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.
3
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. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 May 12, 2006, when application 11/433,413, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 8, 2013); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | May 12, 2026 | 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 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 12, 2026 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,595,161 | In force Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
| US 8,924,319 | this patent May 2026 | May 2026 |
2 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 2022 Reel 62156, frame 617 | Vecna Robotics, Inc. | Triplepoint Capital LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| May 20, 2024 Reel 67472, frame 120 | Vecna Robotics, Inc.; Vecna Robotics Interco LLC | Stifel Bank | Security Interest |
| May 7, 2025 Reel 71220, frame 483 | Triplepoint Capital LLC | Vecna Robotics, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Citations
6
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.
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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