Lapsed Jul 4, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 5, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Really Right Stuff, LLC
Filed May 20, 2016 as application 15/161,028 · Granted Jul 4, 2017
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jul 4, 2025
2006
2026
Clock starts
Jan 5, 2006
Jan 5, 2006
No longer in force
Jul 4, 2025
Jul 4, 2025
Granted
Jul 4, 2017
Jul 4, 2017
Term would have run to
Jan 5, 2026
Jan 5, 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,658,556, US 8,075,203, US 8,262,299, US 8,827,576, US 9,063,397, US 9,372,385, to Jan 5, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
16
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 Jan 5, 2026: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Jan 5, 2006, when application 11/327,265, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 20, 2016) | Jan 5, 2026 | 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,658,556, US 8,075,203, US 8,262,299, US 8,827,576, US 9,063,397, US 9,372,385) | resolves to Jan 5, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 2 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jul 4, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 4, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,658,556 | In force Oct 2027 | Oct 2027 |
| US 8,075,203 | Term ended Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| US 8,262,299 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 8,827,576 | Term ended Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| US 8,827,577 | Term ended Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| US 9,063,397 | Term ended Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| US 9,372,385 | Term ended Jan 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| US 9,696,611 | this patent Jul 2025 | Jul 2025 |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 2017 Reel 40845, frame 215 | Johnson, Joseph M., SR. | Really Right Stuff, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,658,556, US 8,075,203, US 8,262,299, US 8,827,576, US 9,063,397, US 9,372,385, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
19
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2017 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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