Lapsed Apr 11, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 10, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Filed Oct 22, 2015 as application 14/919,753 · Granted Apr 11, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 6 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 11, 2025
2006
2026
Clock starts
Aug 10, 2006
Aug 10, 2006
No longer in force
Apr 11, 2025
Apr 11, 2025
Granted
Apr 11, 2017
Apr 11, 2017
Term would have run to
Aug 16, 2026
Aug 16, 2026
base term
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
6
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.
4
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 Aug 16, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 6 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 Aug 10, 2006, when application 11/463,788, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 22, 2015) | Aug 10, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +6 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 16, 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 Apr 11, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 11, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,931,780 | In force Sep 2028 | Sep 2028 |
| US 7,902,840 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 9,435,628 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| US 9,618,316 | this patent Apr 2025 | Apr 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 2016 Reel 37680, frame 541 | Zachut, Rafi; Perski, Haim; Rimon, Ori; Kaplan, Amir | N-Trig Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 14, 2016 Reel 37731, frame 225 | N-Trig Ltd. | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Note
The 6 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
11
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2017 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
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