Collateral for a security interest recorded Jun 30, 2023 (Hercules Capital, Inc.).
Term ends Apr 14, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 23, 2027
Held by Saama Technologies, LLC
Filed Sep 10, 2007 as application 11/852,601 · Granted Aug 10, 2010
Base term plus 416 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2028
Clock starts
Feb 23, 2007
Feb 23, 2007
Term ends
Apr 14, 2028
Apr 14, 2028
Granted
Aug 10, 2010
Aug 10, 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
416
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 416 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 Feb 23, 2007, when application 11/710,093, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Sep 10, 2007) | Feb 23, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +416 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 14, 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 | Apr 14, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,797,188 | In force May 2029 | May 2029 |
| US 7,774,227 | this patent Apr 2028 | Apr 2028 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2007 Reel 19803, frame 175 | Srivastava, Ashok N., DR. | Saama Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 3, 2010 Reel 23891, frame 978 | Srivastava, Ashok N., DR. | Saama Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 12, 2018 Reel 44611, frame 981 | Saama Technologies, Inc. | Western Alliance Bank | Security Interest |
| Mar 21, 2019 Reel 48672, frame 577 | Saama Technologies, Inc. | Perceptive Credit Holdings II, LP | Patent Security Agreement |
| Mar 21, 2019 Reel 48672, frame 585 | Western Alliance Bank | Saama Technologies, Inc. | Reassignment and Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 29, 2023 Reel 64119, frame 890 | Perceptive Credit Holdings II, L.P. | Saama Technologies, Inc. | Security Interest |
| Jun 29, 2023 Reel 64165, frame 578 | Saama Technologies, Inc. | Saama Technologies, LLC | Entity Conversion |
| Jun 30, 2023 Reel 64127, frame 314 | Saama Technologies, LLC | Hercules Capital, Inc., as Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2028
Term ends Apr 14, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 416 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
73
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.
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