Lapsed Oct 13, 2023 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Apr 20, 2027
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Cingular Wireless II, LLC
Filed Nov 26, 2012 as application 13/684,898 · Granted Oct 13, 2015
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 214 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Oct 13, 2023
2007
2027
Clock starts
Apr 20, 2007
Apr 20, 2007
No longer in force
Oct 13, 2023
Oct 13, 2023
Granted
Oct 13, 2015
Oct 13, 2015
Term would have run to
Nov 20, 2027
Nov 20, 2027
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
214
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,340,678, to Nov 20, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
3
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 20, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 214 days of term 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. 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 Apr 20, 2007, when application 11/738,145, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 26, 2012) | Apr 20, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +214 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 20, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,340,678) | resolves to Nov 20, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Oct 13, 2023 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 13, 2023 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,340,678 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 9,161,334 | this patent Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| US 9,572,166 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 26, 2012 Reel 29347, frame 849 | Pandey, Vinod | Cingular Wireless II, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 214 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,340,678, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
10
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2015 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.