Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 1, 2011 (The Privatebank and Trust Company).
Lapsed Sep 13, 2015 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 16, 2027
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by O2COOL, LLC
Filed Jan 16, 2007 as application 11/653,133 · Granted Sep 13, 2011
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 1110 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Sep 13, 2015
2007
2030
Clock starts
Jan 16, 2007
Jan 16, 2007
No longer in force
Sep 13, 2015
Sep 13, 2015
Granted
Sep 13, 2011
Sep 13, 2011
Term would have run to
Jan 30, 2030
Jan 30, 2030
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
1,110
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
44
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jan 30, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 1110 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 Jan 16, 2007, when this application, 11/653,133, was filed | Jan 16, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1110 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 30, 2030 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Sep 13, 2015 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 13, 2015 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,828,524 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 8,016,270 | this patent Sep 2015 | Sep 2015 |
| US D566,260 | Term ended Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| US D565,721 | Term ended Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| US D586,183 | Term ended Feb 2023 | Feb 2023 |
| US D564,084 | Term ended Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US D564,083 | Term ended Mar 2022 | Mar 2022 |
| US 7,806,388 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
8 of 44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 2007 Reel 18810, frame 44 | Yung, Chen; Junkel, Eric F. | GLJ, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 29, 2011 Reel 26836, frame 613 | Chen, Yung; Junkel, Eric | GLJ, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 11, 2011 Reel 27219, frame 971 | GLJ, LLC | O2COOL, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 1, 2011 Reel 27307, frame 232 | O2COOL, LLC | The Privatebank and Trust Company | Security Agreement |
| Jan 3, 2019 Reel 49148, frame 436 | Cibc Bank USA, F/K/A the Privatebank and Trust Company | O2COOL LLC | Release of Security Interest |
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Note
The 1110 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
26
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.
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