Term ended Apr 20, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 12, 2024
Held by Axis AB
Filed Sep 22, 2006 as application 11/525,795 · Granted Mar 3, 2009
Base term plus 251 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Apr 20, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
Aug 12, 2004
Aug 12, 2004
Term ended
Apr 20, 2025
Apr 20, 2025
Granted
Mar 3, 2009
Mar 3, 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
251
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.
4
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 251 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 Aug 12, 2004, when application 10/917,985, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 22, 2006) | Aug 12, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +251 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 20, 2025 | 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 | Apr 20, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,136,507 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 7,499,571 | this patent Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 8,195,598 | In force Jan 2031 | Jan 2031 |
| US 8,649,594 | In force Jul 2032 | Jul 2032 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2011 Reel 26319, frame 301 | Agilence, Inc. | MMV Capital Partners Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Jul 6, 2012 Reel 28509, frame 348 | MMV Capital Partners Inc. | Agilence, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 14, 2017 Reel 43593, frame 582 | Agilence, Inc. | WF Fund V Limited Partnership (C/O/B as Wellington Financial LP and Wellington Financial Fund V) | Security Interest |
| Jan 9, 2018 Reel 45028, frame 880 | WF Fund V Limited Partnership, C/O/B/ as Wellington Financial LP and Wellington Financial Fund V | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | Assignment and Assumption of Security Interests |
| Jan 17, 2018 Reel 44645, frame 286 | Han, Mei; Gong, Yihong; Tao, Hai | Vidient Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 17, 2018 Reel 44645, frame 323 | Vidient Systems, Inc. | Vidient (Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors), LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 17, 2018 Reel 44645, frame 331 | Vidient (Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors), LLC | Agilence, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 14, 2019 Reel 50046, frame 786 | Agilence, Inc. | Accel-KKR Credit Partners, LP - Series 1 | Security Interest |
| Aug 16, 2019 Reel 50082, frame 77 | Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce | Agilence, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 3, 2019 Reel 51161, frame 636 | Accel-KKR Credit Partners, LP - Series 1 | Accel-KKR Credit Partners SPV, LLC | Assignment of Patent Security Agreement |
| Oct 27, 2021 Reel 57928, frame 933 | Agilence, Inc. | Pnc Bank, National Association | Security Interest |
| Oct 28, 2021 Reel 57941, frame 982 | Accel-KKR Credit Partners SPV, LLC | Agilence, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 2, 2022 Reel 61960, frame 58 | Agilence, Inc. | Axis AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 12, 2024 Reel 67705, frame 398 | Pnc Bank, National Association | Agilence, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 251 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
8
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2009 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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