Term ends Jul 9, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jul 9, 2028
Held by Motorola Solutions, Inc.
Filed Dec 29, 2014 as application 14/584,967 · Granted Jan 12, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2008
2028
Clock starts
Jul 9, 2008
Jul 9, 2008
Term ends
Jul 9, 2028
Jul 9, 2028
Granted
Jan 12, 2016
Jan 12, 2016
base term
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 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.
12
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. 2 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Jul 9, 2008, when application 12/170,268, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 29, 2014) | Jul 9, 2028 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 9, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,411,935 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2021 | Apr 2021 |
| US 8,189,905 | In force Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2008/069700 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2008/069694 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,923,609 | In force Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| US 9,235,752 | this patent Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| US 9,489,569 | In force Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| US 9,665,774 | In force Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
8 of 12 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 29, 2014 Reel 34596, frame 89 | Eaton, John Eric; Cobb, Wesley Kenneth; Urech, Dennis G.; Friedlander, David S.; Xu, Gang; Seow, Ming-jung; Risinger, Lon W.; Solum, David M.; Yang, Tao; Gottumkkal, Rajkiran K.; Saitwal, Kishor Adinath | Behavioral Recognition Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 4, 2015 Reel 34881, frame 483 | Behavioral Recognition Systems, Inc. | 9051147 Canada Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 8, 2015 Reel 35387, frame 176 | Canada Inc. | HSBC Bank Canada | Security Interest |
| Mar 10, 2017 Reel 41976, frame 986 | 9051147 Canada Inc. | Avigilon Patent Holding 1 Corporation | Change of Name |
| Aug 21, 2018 Reel 46895, frame 803 | HSBC Bank Canada | Avigilon Patent Holding 1 Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 13, 2022 Reel 62034, frame 176 | Avigilon Patent Holding 1 Corporation | Motorola Solutions, Inc. | Nunc Pro Tunc Assignment |
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What's changing
Jul 2028
Term ends Jul 9, 2028. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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