Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 12, 2021 (HSBC Bank USA, National Association).
Term ends Mar 22, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 24, 2026
Held by Tronox LLC
Filed Aug 24, 2006 as application 11/509,339 · Granted Oct 26, 2010
Base term plus 576 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2028
Clock starts
Aug 24, 2006
Aug 24, 2006
Term ends
Mar 22, 2028
Mar 22, 2028
Granted
Oct 26, 2010
Oct 26, 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
576
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 576 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 Aug 24, 2006, when this application, 11/509,339, was filed | Aug 24, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +576 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 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 | Mar 22, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,820,583 | this patent Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 8,075,859 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 7,842,641 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 8,501,132 | Term ended Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
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 22, 2006 Reel 18327, frame 509 | Fu, Guoyi; Augustine, Steven M. | Millennium Inorganic Chemicals, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 9, 2013 Reel 30982, frame 732 | Millennium Inorganic Chemicals, Inc. | Cristal USA Inc. | Change of Name |
| May 10, 2019 Reel 49148, frame 729 | Cristal USA Inc. | Tronox LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 1, 2020 Reel 52554, frame 529 | Tronox LLC | Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Mar 12, 2021 Reel 55579, frame 619 | Tronox LLC | HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Apr 7, 2022 Reel 59629, frame 581 | Wilmington Trust, National Association | Tronox LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 26, 2025 Reel 72942, frame 255 | Tronox LLC | Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2028
Term ends Mar 22, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 576 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
16
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.
How we rank
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