Term ends Mar 4, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 28, 2025
Held by Fluke Corporation
Filed Jun 16, 2020 as application 16/946,311 · Granted Sep 5, 2023
Base term plus 431 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
Dec 28, 2005
Dec 28, 2005
Term ends
Mar 4, 2027
Mar 4, 2027
Granted
Sep 5, 2023
Sep 5, 2023
base term
patent term adjustment
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
431
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,873,490, to Mar 4, 2027. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
None due
Maintenance fees
This term ends before the first maintenance fee's grace period does, 4 years from grant, so no fee can end it early.
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 431 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. No maintenance fee can end this term early. 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 Dec 28, 2005, when application 11/321,294, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 16, 2020) | Dec 28, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +431 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 4, 2027 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,873,490) | resolves to Mar 4, 2027, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | No maintenance fee can end the term early | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 4, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,873,490 | In force Jan 2029 | Jan 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2006/048836 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,386,179 | Term ended Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| Application 13/733,867 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 9,697,644 | In force Sep 2027 | Sep 2027 |
| US 10,692,278 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 11,748,946 | this patent Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| Application 18/458,773 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 16, 2020 Reel 52953, frame 317 | Macdonald, Willard; Macdonald, Robert | Solmetric Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 10, 2022 Reel 59229, frame 453 | Solmetric Corporation | Sunrun Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 1, 2023 Reel 64258, frame 325 | Sunrun Inc. | Solmetric Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 15, 2023 Reel 65881, frame 308 | Solmetric | Fluke Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2027
Term ends Mar 4, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 431 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,873,490, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2023 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.