Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 25, 2011 (General Electric Capital Corporation).
Term ends May 7, 2027 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 14, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Sunless, Inc.
Filed Nov 23, 2009 as application 12/624,083 · Granted Dec 30, 2014
Base term plus 692 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
Jun 14, 2005
Jun 14, 2005
Term ends
May 7, 2027
May 7, 2027
Granted
Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 2014
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
692
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 692 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 Jun 14, 2005, when application 11/151,995, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 23, 2009); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jun 14, 2025 | 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 | +692 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 7, 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 | May 7, 2027 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 11/151,995 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,201,288 | In force May 2028 | May 2028 |
| US 8,920,391 | this patent May 2027 | May 2027 |
| Application 12/624,149 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/623,687 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,545,461 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| Application 13/524,569 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
7 of 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 2010 Reel 23924, frame 123 | Thomason, Scott, MR.; Mastandrea, Nicholas J, MR. | MT Industries, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 17, 2011 Reel 26764, frame 475 | MT Industries, Inc. | Sunless, Inc. | Merger |
| Aug 25, 2011 Reel 26804, frame 895 | Sunless, Inc. | General Electric Capital Corporation, as Agent | Security Agreement |
| Sep 9, 2015 Reel 36573, frame 313 | General Electric Capital Corporation | Antares Capital LP | Assignment of Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Aug 26, 2019 Reel 50170, frame 298 | Antares Capital LP, as Administrative Agent | Sunless, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 5, 2024 Reel 68856, frame 24 | Sunless Holding Company; Sunless Intermediate Holding Company; Sunless, Inc. | Old Second National Bank, as Administrative Agent | Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
May 2027
Term ends May 7, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 692 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
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