Term ends Dec 14, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 14, 2027
Held by Hypres, Inc.
Filed Apr 27, 2015 as application 14/697,308 · Granted Feb 2, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2007
2027
Clock starts
Dec 14, 2007
Dec 14, 2007
Term ends
Dec 14, 2027
Dec 14, 2027
Granted
Feb 2, 2016
Feb 2, 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 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.
9
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 2 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 Dec 14, 2007, when applications 11/957,389, 11/957,391 and 11/957,393, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Apr 27, 2015) | Dec 14, 2027 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 14, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,045,660 | In force May 2030 | May 2030 |
| US 8,130,880 | In force Oct 2030 | Oct 2030 |
| US 7,876,869 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2023 | Jan 2023 |
| Application PCT/US2008/064225 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,514,986 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2021 | Aug 2021 |
| US 9,020,079 | In force Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
| US 9,252,825 | this patent Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
| US 9,577,690 | In force Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2015 Reel 35641, frame 318 | Gupta, Deepnarayan | Hypres, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 17, 2021 Reel 56617, frame 116 | Hypres, Inc. | Avidbank | Security Interest |
| Aug 6, 2024 Reel 68348, frame 909 | Avidbank | Hypres, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2027
Term ends Dec 14, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Citations
22
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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