Term ends Oct 25, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 3, 2024
Held by Applied Minds, LLC
Filed Jul 31, 2006 as application 11/461,373 · Granted Dec 21, 2010
Base term plus 1178 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2004
2027
Clock starts
Aug 3, 2004
Aug 3, 2004
Term ends
Oct 25, 2027
Oct 25, 2027
Granted
Dec 21, 2010
Dec 21, 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
1,178
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.
14
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 1178 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 3, 2004, when application 10/911,079, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 31, 2006) | Aug 3, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1178 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 25, 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 25, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,092,002 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2018 | Aug 2018 |
| Application PCT/US2004/030756 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,855,726 | this patent Oct 2027 | Oct 2027 |
| US 7,916,165 | Term ended Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 7,847,814 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2018 | Dec 2018 |
| US 8,456,506 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| US 8,159,521 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 8,390,668 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
8 of 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2011 Reel 26593, frame 637 | Ferren, Bran; Hillis, W. Daniel | Applied Minds, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 28, 2011 Reel 26664, frame 857 | Applied Minds, Inc. | Applied Minds, LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2027
Term ends Oct 25, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1178 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
36
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% 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
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.