Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 18, 2022 (Goldman Sachs Middle Market Lending Corp. II).
Term ends Oct 22, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 6, 2025
Held by Apteryx, LLC
Filed Oct 6, 2005 as application 11/244,545 · Granted Aug 3, 2010
Base term plus 1112 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2028
Clock starts
Oct 6, 2005
Oct 6, 2005
Term ends
Oct 22, 2028
Oct 22, 2028
Granted
Aug 3, 2010
Aug 3, 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
1,112
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.
2
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 1112 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 Oct 6, 2005, when this application, 11/244,545, was filed | Oct 6, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1112 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 22, 2028 | 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 22, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,769,218 | this patent Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 7,925,057 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6, 2005 Reel 17068, frame 238 | Crucs, Kevin M. | Apteryx, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 12, 2020 Reel 52639, frame 824 | Apteryx, Inc. | National Bank of Canada | Security Interest |
| Sep 24, 2020 Reel 53872, frame 602 | National Bank of Canada | Apteryx, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Mar 3, 2022 Reel 59317, frame 626 | Apteryx, LLC | Saratoga Investment Corp. SBIC LP, as Administrative Agent | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
| Mar 24, 2022 Reel 59390, frame 915 | Apteryx, Inc. | Apteryx, LLC | Change of Name |
| Jul 18, 2022 Reel 60531, frame 750 | Apteryx, LLC; PDDS Holdco, Inc. | Goldman Sachs Middle Market Lending Corp. II, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jul 19, 2022 Reel 60550, frame 26 | Saratoga Investment Corp. SBIC LP, as Administrative Agent | Apteryx, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 30, 2025 Reel 72990, frame 80 | Goldman Sachs Middle Market Lending Corp. II, as Resigning Collateral Agent | Goldman Sachs Private Credit Corp., as Successor Collateral Agent | Notice of Assignment of Security Interest in Patents Recorded at RF 060531-0750 |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2028
Term ends Oct 22, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1112 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
9
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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