Term ends Jan 18, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 1, 2029
Held by Geotab Inc.
Filed May 1, 2009 as application 12/453,195 · Granted May 10, 2011
Base term plus 97 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2009
2029
Clock starts
May 1, 2009
May 1, 2009
Term ends
Jan 18, 2028
Jan 18, 2028
Granted
May 10, 2011
May 10, 2011
base term
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
97
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,538,667.
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 97 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: High. from the record
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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 May 1, 2009, when this application, 12/453,195, was filed | May 1, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +97 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 6, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,538,667) | capped to Jan 18, 2028 | 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 | Jan 18, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,538,667 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 7,940,173 | this patent Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 8,587,420 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
| US 8,766,791 | In force May 2029 | May 2029 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2010 Reel 24186, frame 825 | Koen, Robert John | Webtech Wireless Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 4, 2016 Reel 37895, frame 20 | Webtech Wireless Inc. | The Toronto-Dominion Bank | Security Interest |
| Oct 31, 2018 Reel 47369, frame 579 | Webtech Wireless Inc.; BSM Technologies Ltd. | BSM Technologies Ltd. | Merger and Change of Name |
| Mar 12, 2020 Reel 52100, frame 360 | BSM Technologies Ltd.; Geotab Inc. | Geotab Inc. | Merger and Change of Name |
| May 19, 2020 Reel 52697, frame 574 | The Toronto-Dominion Bank | Geotab Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| May 20, 2020 Reel 52718, frame 50 | The Toronto-Dominion Bank | Geotab Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the the Cover Sheet, Which Listed Patent Number 6377219 in Error. the Correct Patent Number Is 6377210 Previously Recorded on Reel 052697 Frame 0574. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Correct Listing of Patent 6377210 on Page 6, Row 8 of the Original Release of Security Interest.. |
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What's changing
Jan 2028
Term ends Jan 18, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 97 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,538,667.
Citations
36
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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