Term ended Sep 30, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 18, 2025
Held by Quantum Wave, LLC
Filed Apr 5, 2007 as application 11/697,014 · Granted Oct 5, 2010
Base term plus 589 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Sep 30, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Feb 18, 2005
Feb 18, 2005
Term ended
Sep 30, 2026
Sep 30, 2026
Granted
Oct 5, 2010
Oct 5, 2010
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
589
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.
16
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 589 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 Feb 18, 2005, when applications 11/062,035 and 11/062,179, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Apr 5, 2007) | Feb 18, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +589 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 30, 2026 | 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 | Sep 30, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 11/062,035 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/062,179 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,638,182 | In force Jul 2031 | Jul 2031 |
| US 8,629,734 | In force Jan 2032 | Jan 2032 |
| Application PCT/US2006/004324 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2006/004522 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 9,118,216 | In force Dec 2030 | Dec 2030 |
| US 7,808,124 | this patent Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2007 Reel 19696, frame 633 | Corum, James F. | CPG Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2023 Reel 64148, frame 31 | CPG Technologies, LLC | Quantum Wave, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 589 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
13
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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