Also listed on Netalog, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Oct 6, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 13, 2026
Held by Koninklijke Philips N.V.
Filed Oct 13, 2006 as application 11/549,618 · Granted Jul 31, 2018
Base term plus 358 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2027
Clock starts
Oct 13, 2006
Oct 13, 2006
Term ends
Oct 6, 2027
Oct 6, 2027
Granted
Jul 31, 2018
Jul 31, 2018
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
358
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
22
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 358 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 Oct 13, 2006, when this application, 11/549,618, was filed | Oct 13, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +358 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 6, 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 6, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 29/164,065 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 6,591,085 | Term ended Jul 2022 | Jul 2022 |
| US 7,280,802 | Term ended Mar 2023 | Mar 2023 |
| Application 10/621,500 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US D531,158 | Term ended Oct 2020 | Oct 2020 |
| Application 10/780,329 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2005/005025 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US D545,812 | Term ended Jul 2021 | Jul 2021 |
8 of 22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 2006 Reel 18515, frame 349 | Netalog, Inc. | Suntrust Bank, As Administrative Agent | Security Agreement |
| Dec 14, 2006 Reel 18652, frame 283 | Grady, Jeff; De Angelis, Garey; Green, Andrew; Gustafson, Vincent K. | Netalog, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 1, 2007 Reel 18837, frame 29 | Netalog, Inc. | Monroe Capital Advisors, LLC | Security Agreement |
| May 22, 2007 Reel 19323, frame 565 | Monroe Capital Advisors, LLC | Netalog, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 25, 2007 Reel 19466, frame 783 | Suntrust Bank, As Administrative Agent | Netalog, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 20, 2009 Reel 23546, frame 633 | Netalog, Inc. | Philips Electronics North America Corporation | Merger |
| Feb 9, 2011 Reel 25775, frame 220 | Netalog, Inc. | Philips Electronics North America, Corporation | Merger |
| Jun 26, 2018 Reel 46206, frame 752 | Philips Electronics North America Corporation | Koninklijke Philips N.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Oct 2027
Term ends Oct 6, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 358 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
22
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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