Term ended Apr 30, 2022 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 25, 2022
Held by Enviolo B.V.
Filed Apr 25, 2002 as application 10/134,097 · Granted Feb 10, 2004
Base term plus 5 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Apr 30, 2022
2002
2026
Clock starts
Apr 25, 2002
Apr 25, 2002
Term ended
Apr 30, 2022
Apr 30, 2022
Granted
Feb 10, 2004
Feb 10, 2004
base term
after the term ends
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
5
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.
99
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 5 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Apr 25, 2002, when this application, 10/134,097, was filed | Apr 25, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +5 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 30, 2022 | 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 | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 30, 2022 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,689,012 | this patent Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| US 6,949,049 | Term ended Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
| US 7,011,600 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
| US 7,166,052 | Term ended Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| Application PCT/US2004/015652 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,261,663 | Term ended Sep 2024 | Sep 2024 |
| US 7,192,381 | Lapsed on the fee record Mar 2019 | Mar 2019 |
| US 7,147,586 | Term ended Apr 2022 | Apr 2022 |
8 of 99 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 2002 Reel 13113, frame 497 | Miller, Donald C.; Allen, David John | Motion Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 17, 2006 Reel 17458, frame 996 | Motion Technologies, LLC | Fallbrook Technologies Inc. | Conversion of Ca LLC to De Inc. |
| Jan 30, 2012 Reel 27620, frame 783 | Fallbrook Technologies Inc. | Ngen Iii, L.p. | Security Agreement |
| Mar 9, 2012 Reel 27830, frame 217 | Fallbrook Technologies Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Agreement |
| Jul 25, 2012 Reel 28639, frame 872 | Ngen Iii, L.p. | Fallbrook Technologies Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 26, 2012 Reel 28651, frame 85 | Fallbrook Technologies Inc. | Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 7, 2012 Reel 28796, frame 140 | Silicon Valley Bank | Fallbrook Technologies, Inc. | Release |
| Sep 13, 2017 Reel 43837, frame 903 | Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC. | Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbH | License |
| Jan 12, 2018 Reel 45059, frame 903 | Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC. | Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbH | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Patent Numbers 8700214 and 9239090 Previously Recorded on Reel 043837 Frame 0903. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the License. |
| May 4, 2022 Reel 59853, frame 560 | Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbH | Fallbrook Technologies, Inc.; Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC | License |
| May 4, 2022 reel/frame not recorded | Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbH | Fallbrook Technologies, Inc. | License |
| May 4, 2022 reel/frame not recorded | Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbH | Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC | License |
| Jun 28, 2024 Reel 67964, frame 1 | Enviolo International Inc. | Enviolo B.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2024 Reel 68098, frame 23 | Enviolo Inc. | Enviolo International Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 28, 2024 Reel 68511, frame 716 | Fallbrook Intellectual Property Company LLC | Enviolo Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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The 5 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
239
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2004 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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