Term ends Dec 26, 2027 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 10, 2023
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by GE Global Sourcing LLC
Filed Jun 6, 2005 as application 11/146,831 · Granted Jun 21, 2011
Base term plus 1780 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2003
2027
Clock starts
Feb 10, 2003
Feb 10, 2003
Term ends
Dec 26, 2027
Dec 26, 2027
Granted
Jun 21, 2011
Jun 21, 2011
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
1,780
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.
115
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 1780 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Feb 10, 2003, when application 10/361,968, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 6, 2005); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Feb 10, 2023 | 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 | +1780 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 26, 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 | Dec 26, 2027 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 10/361,968 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,538,611 | Term ended May 2024 | May 2024 |
| US 7,965,312 | this patent Dec 2027 | Dec 2027 |
| US 9,733,625 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 8,280,566 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| US 8,370,006 | In force Aug 2030 | Aug 2030 |
| Application 11/608,257 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,768,543 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 |
8 of 115 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2005 Reel 16656, frame 705 | Chung, Wing Yeung; Ballesty, Daniel Malachi; Shaffer, Glenn Robert; Kisak, Jeffrey James | General Electric Company | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 6, 2018 Reel 48890, frame 642 | General Electric Company | GE Global Sourcing LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Dec 2027
Term ends Dec 26, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1780 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
62
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% 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
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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.