Also listed on Pendragon Wireless LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Oct 14, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 28, 2024
Held by Atreus Labs LLC
Filed Dec 28, 2005 as application 10/562,538 · Granted Jun 15, 2010
Base term plus 1203 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2027
Clock starts
Jun 28, 2004
Jun 28, 2004
Term ends
Oct 14, 2027
Oct 14, 2027
Granted
Jun 15, 2010
Jun 15, 2010
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,203
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.
23
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 1203 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jun 28, 2004, when application PCT/IB2004/051033, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 28, 2005) | Jun 28, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1203 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 14, 2027 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 14, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,937,645 | Term ended Feb 2023 | Feb 2023 |
| US 7,136,371 | Term ended Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 7,092,549 | Term ended Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| US 6,985,526 | Term ended Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
| US 6,961,561 | Term ended Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| US 6,944,337 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2017 | Sep 2017 |
| US 7,245,592 | Term ended Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| US 7,058,208 | Term ended Nov 2023 | Nov 2023 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 2005 Reel 17381, frame 311 | Agnihotri, Lalitha; Dimitrova, Nevenka | Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.v. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 4, 2009 Reel 22203, frame 791 | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Ipg Electronics 503 Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 8, 2012 Reel 28339, frame 234 | Ipg Electronics 503 Limited | Pendragon Wireless LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 14, 2018 Reel 45338, frame 601 | Pendragon Wireless LLC | Uniloc Luxembourg S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 12, 2018 Reel 46532, frame 88 | Uniloc Luxembourg S.A. | Uniloc 2017 LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 9, 2021 Reel 57453, frame 790 | Uniloc 2017 LLC | Atreus Labs LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Oct 2027
Term ends Oct 14, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1203 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
92
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2010 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.