Also listed on Triplay, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Sep 13, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 30, 2025
Held by Alarm.com Incorporated
Filed Nov 30, 2005 as application 11/291,534 · Granted Nov 6, 2012
Base term plus 652 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
Nov 30, 2005
Nov 30, 2005
Term ends
Sep 13, 2027
Sep 13, 2027
Granted
Nov 6, 2012
Nov 6, 2012
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
652
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.
8
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 652 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 Nov 30, 2005, when this application, 11/291,534, was filed | Nov 30, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +652 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 13, 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 (reinstated) | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 13, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,035,509 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| Application 11/245,492 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,770,071 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
| US 7,906,765 | In force Aug 2029 | Aug 2029 |
| US 8,018,335 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 8,306,638 | this patent Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
| US 7,708,493 | In force Mar 2028 | Mar 2028 |
| US 8,132,059 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
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 17, 2006 Reel 17465, frame 685 | Jung, Edward K.y.; Levien, Royce A.; Lord, Robert W.; Malamud, Mark A.; Rinaldo, JR., John D. | Searete LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 24, 2012 Reel 28624, frame 47 | Searete LLC | The Invention Science Fund I, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 11, 2015 Reel 36296, frame 959 | Invention Science Fund I, LLC | Triplay, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 5, 2020 Reel 53411, frame 805 | Triplay, Inc. | JTT Investment Partners, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 5, 2023 Reel 62279, frame 900 | JTT Investment Partners, LLC | Alarm.com Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Sep 2027
Term ends Sep 13, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 652 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
7
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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