Lapsed Dec 13, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 19, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Filed Dec 3, 2013 as application 14/095,751 · Granted Dec 13, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 129 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Dec 13, 2024
2006
2026
Clock starts
Jun 19, 2006
Jun 19, 2006
No longer in force
Dec 13, 2024
Dec 13, 2024
Granted
Dec 13, 2016
Dec 13, 2016
Term would have run to
Oct 26, 2026
Oct 26, 2026
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
129
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
7
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 Oct 26, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 129 days of term 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 Jun 19, 2006, when application 11/425,066, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 3, 2013) | Jun 19, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +129 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 26, 2026 | 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 | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Dec 13, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 13, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,912,574 | In force Nov 2028 | Nov 2028 |
| US 8,606,392 | In force Oct 2027 | Oct 2027 |
| US 9,519,284 | this patent Dec 2024 | Dec 2024 |
| US 10,133,267 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 10,067,501 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 10,990,088 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 10,809,706 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
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 5, 2016 Reel 39349, frame 804 | Wurman, Peter R.; D'andrea, Raffaello; Barbehenn, Michael T.; Hoffman, Andrew E.; Mountz, Michael C. | Kiva Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 5, 2016 Reel 39349, frame 896 | Kiva Systems LLC | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 5, 2016 Reel 39597, frame 824 | Kiva Systems, Inc. | Kiva Systems LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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Note
The 129 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
78
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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