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Mote Networks Using Directional Antenna Techniques

US 7,317,898 Term ended
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Term ended Feb 23, 2025 · High confidence

Filed Mar 31, 2004 as application 10/814,454 · Granted Jan 8, 2008
Base term plus 329 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
Term ended Feb 23, 2025
2004 2026
Clock starts
Mar 31, 2004
Term ended
Feb 23, 2025
Granted
Jan 8, 2008
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
329
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
3 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.
74
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 runs 329 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Mar 31, 2004, when this application, 10/814,454, was filedMar 31, 2024High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+329 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordFeb 23, 2025High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidterm endedHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderFeb 23, 2025High confidence

This family

US 7,366,544Term ended
Oct 2024
Oct 2024
Application 10/816,082Abandoned
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Application 10/816,364Abandoned
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US 8,161,097Term ended
no later than Jul 2026
no later than Jul 2026
US 8,200,744Term ended
Dec 2025
Dec 2025
US 8,335,814Term ended
May 2026
May 2026
US 7,317,898this patent
Feb 2025
Feb 2025
Application 10/844,613Abandoned
not computed
not computed
8 of 74 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
Mar 31, 2004
Reel 15174, frame 750
Tegreene, Clarence T.Searete LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 9, 2009
Reel 23487, frame 778
Searete LLCInvention Science Fund IAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 2, 2015
Reel 35120, frame 862
Triplay, Inc.Fortress Credit Co. LLCSecurity Interest
May 14, 2015
Reel 35643, frame 702
Invention Science Fund I, LLC; Searete LLCTriplay, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 18, 2020
Reel 52156, frame 955
Fortress Credit Co. LLCTriplay, Inc.Release of Security Interest
Aug 5, 2020
Reel 53411, frame 805
Triplay, Inc.JTT Investment Partners, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 5, 2023
Reel 62279, frame 900
JTT Investment Partners, LLCAlarm.com IncorporatedAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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

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