Term ended Aug 28, 2025 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 8, 2024
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Cradlepoint, Inc.
Filed Feb 12, 2007 as application 11/673,973 · Granted Jun 14, 2011
Base term plus 354 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Aug 28, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
Sep 8, 2004
Sep 8, 2004
Term ended
Aug 28, 2025
Aug 28, 2025
Granted
Jun 14, 2011
Jun 14, 2011
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
354
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.
24
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 354 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Medium. 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 Sep 8, 2004, when application 10/936,124, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 12, 2007); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Sep 8, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +354 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 28, 2025 | 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 | Aug 28, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,764,784 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 9,232,461 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Application 11/673,965 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,962,569 | this patent Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2007/062079 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2007/062077 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2007/062078 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,644,272 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
8 of 24 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 19, 2007 Reel 19574, frame 882 | Johnson, Dave; Sewall, Patrick M. | Cradlepoint, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 26, 2007 Reel 20286, frame 843 | Cradlepoint, Inc. | Comerica Bank | Security Agreement |
| Sep 9, 2009 Reel 23206, frame 811 | Comerica Bank | Cradlepoint, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 5, 2009 Reel 23325, frame 779 | Cradlepoint, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Agreement |
| Nov 28, 2014 Reel 34276, frame 671 | Silicon Valley Bank | Cradlepoint, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 12, 2016 Reel 37721, frame 466 | Cradlepoint, Inc. | Pacific Western Bank | Security Interest |
| Feb 13, 2018 Reel 44909, frame 528 | Pacific Western Bank | Cradlepoint, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Oct 10, 2018 Reel 47123, frame 193 | Cradlepoint, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest |
| Feb 7, 2020 Reel 51843, frame 756 | Cradlepoint, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest - Mezz Loan |
| Nov 23, 2020 Reel 54446, frame 250 | Silicon Valley Bank | Cradlepoint, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 354 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
357
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2011 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.