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Platform for wireless identity transmitter and system using a short range wireless broadcast

US 9,544,075 Lapsed on the fee record
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Lapsed Jan 10, 2021 on the fee record · High confidence

First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Filed Feb 21, 2013 as application 13/773,379 · Granted Jan 10, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 451 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jan 10, 2021
2013 2034
Clock starts
Feb 21, 2013
No longer in force
Jan 10, 2021
Granted
Jan 10, 2017
Term would have run to
May 18, 2034
base term patent term adjustment after the term ends 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
451
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
17
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 May 18, 2034: its 20-year base term plus 451 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Feb 21, 2013, when this application, 13/773,379, was filedFeb 21, 2033High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+451 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordMay 18, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events0 of 3 maintenance fees paidlapsed Jan 10, 2021High confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJan 10, 2021High confidence

This family

US 9,544,075this patent
Jan 2021
Jan 2021
Application 13/773,336Abandoned
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Application PCT/US2013/027409PCT application
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Application PCT/US2013/027392PCT application
no patent term
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Application 13/833,291Abandoned
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US 10,360,593In force
Nov 2034
Nov 2034
Application 13/833,262Abandoned
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Application 13/833,227Abandoned
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8 of 17 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
May 23, 2013
Reel 30472, frame 827
Altman, Steven R.; Sprigg, Stephen A.; Gasser, Liz; Linsky, Joel; Woodahl, Leif; Kenagy, Jason; Menendez, Jose; Wurster, Charles S.; Jacobs, Paul; Meijers, Neville; Johnson, Peggy; Wise, Dave; Hunter, KevinQualcomm IncorporatedAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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