Term ended Jul 18, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 5, 2021
Held by Nant Holdings IP, LLC
Filed May 20, 2004 as application 10/492,243 · Granted Jan 13, 2009
Base term plus 986 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Jul 18, 2024
2001
2026
Clock starts
Nov 5, 2001
Nov 5, 2001
Term ended
Jul 18, 2024
Jul 18, 2024
Granted
Jan 13, 2009
Jan 13, 2009
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
986
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.
169
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 986 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Nov 5, 2001, when application 09/992,942, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 20, 2004) | Nov 5, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +986 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 18, 2024 | 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 18, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,016,532 | Term ended Jul 2023 | Jul 2023 |
| US 6,993,754 | Term ended Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| Application PCT/US2002/035407 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,477,780 | this patent Jul 2024 | Jul 2024 |
| US 7,680,324 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 7,403,652 | Term ended no later than Oct 2022 | no later than Oct 2022 |
| US 7,565,008 | Term ended no later than Feb 2023 | no later than Feb 2023 |
| Application PCT/US2006/031485 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 169 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 8, 2010 Reel 23750, frame 778 | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | Bristol Investment Fund, Ltd.; Emerson Partners; G. Tyler Runnels & Jasmine Niklas Runnels Tte the Runnels Family Trust; High Tide, LLC; Ira Rollover II Fbo J. Steven Emerson, Pershing LLC as Custodian; Ira Roth Fbo J. Steven Emerson, Pershing LLC as Custodian; Jonathan M. Glaser & Nancy Ellen Glaser, Ttees of the Jonathan & Nancy Glaser Family Trust | Security Agreement |
| Jan 8, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | Bristol Investment Fund, Ltd. | Security Agreement |
| Jan 8, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | Emerson Partners | Security Agreement |
| Jan 8, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | G. Tyler Runnels & Jasmine Niklas Runnels Tte the Runnels Family Trust | Security Agreement |
| Jan 8, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | High Tide, LLC | Security Agreement |
| Jan 8, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | Ira Rollover II Fbo J. Steven Emerson, Pershing LLC as Custodian | Security Agreement |
| Jan 8, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | Ira Roth Fbo J. Steven Emerson, Pershing LLC as Custodian | Security Agreement |
| Jan 8, 2010 reel/frame not recorded | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | Jonathan M. Glaser & Nancy Ellen Glaser, Ttees of the Jonathan & Nancy Glaser Family Trust | Security Agreement |
| May 11, 2011 Reel 26259, frame 759 | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | Evryx Acquisition LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 27, 2011 Reel 26354, frame 291 | Evryx Acquisition, LLC | Nant Holdings IP, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 16, 2012 Reel 28050, frame 698 | Bristol Investment Fund, Ltd. | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 22, 2019 Reel 50140, frame 791 | Emerson Partners | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 22, 2019 Reel 50140, frame 906 | G.Tyler Runnels and Jasmine Niklas Runnels Ttees the Runnels Family Trust DTD 1-11-2000 | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 22, 2019 Reel 50140, frame 957 | High Tide, LLC | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 22, 2019 Reel 50141, frame 5 | Ira Rollover II Fbo J. Steven Emerson, Pershing LLC as Custodian | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 22, 2019 Reel 50141, frame 33 | Ira Roth Fbo J. Steven Emerson, Pershing LLC as Custodian | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 22, 2019 Reel 50141, frame 48 | Jonathan M. Glaser & Nancy Ellen Glaser, Ttees of the Jonathan and Nancy Glaser Family Trust DTD 12-16-08 | Evryx Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 986 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
648
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2009 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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