Term ended Nov 22, 2024 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 10, 2022
Held by Atreus Labs LLC
Filed Apr 10, 2002 as application 10/119,577 · Granted Jul 17, 2007
Base term plus 957 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Nov 22, 2024
2002
2026
Clock starts
Apr 10, 2002
Apr 10, 2002
Term ended
Nov 22, 2024
Nov 22, 2024
Granted
Jul 17, 2007
Jul 17, 2007
base term
patent term adjustment
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
957
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.
23
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 957 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 10, 2002, when this application, 10/119,577, was filed | Apr 10, 2022 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +957 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 22, 2024 | 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 | Nov 22, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,937,645 | Term ended Feb 2023 | Feb 2023 |
| US 7,136,371 | Term ended Jun 2023 | Jun 2023 |
| US 7,092,549 | Term ended Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| US 6,985,526 | Term ended Jun 2022 | Jun 2022 |
| US 6,961,561 | Term ended Oct 2023 | Oct 2023 |
| US 6,944,337 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2017 | Sep 2017 |
| US 7,245,592 | this patent Nov 2024 | Nov 2024 |
| US 7,058,208 | Term ended Nov 2023 | Nov 2023 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 2002 Reel 12790, frame 740 | Soomro, Amjad; Choi, Sunghyun; De Prado Pavon, Javier | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 4, 2009 Reel 22203, frame 791 | Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. | Ipg Electronics 503 Limited | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 20, 2012 Reel 28594, frame 224 | Ipg Electronics 503 Limited | Pendragon Wireless LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 14, 2018 Reel 45338, frame 601 | Pendragon Wireless LLC | Uniloc Luxembourg S.A. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 12, 2018 Reel 46532, frame 88 | Uniloc Luxembourg S.A. | Uniloc 2017 LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 9, 2021 Reel 57453, frame 790 | Uniloc 2017 LLC | Atreus Labs LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 957 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
23
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2007 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.