Term ended Apr 22, 2025 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 22, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Cru Data Security Group, LLC
Filed Nov 23, 2005 as application 11/285,854 · Granted Nov 6, 2007
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Apr 22, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Apr 22, 2005
Apr 22, 2005
Term ended
Apr 22, 2025
Apr 22, 2025
Granted
Nov 6, 2007
Nov 6, 2007
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
6
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 Apr 22, 2005, when application 11/112,552, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 23, 2005); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Apr 22, 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 | None on file | no change | 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 22, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,291,784 | this patent Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 7,880,097 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 7,855,880 | In force Jan 2029 | Jan 2029 |
| US 7,843,689 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
4 of 6 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 2, 2006 Reel 17112, frame 542 | Moore, Robby Jay; Goldsberry, Steven D.; Hendricks, John Arthur | Iosafe Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 4, 2007 Reel 19252, frame 320 | Iosafe, Inc. | Auburn I.P. Holdings, LLC. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 13, 2010 Reel 25495, frame 671 | Auburn I.P. Holdings, LLC | Iosafe, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 13, 2019 Reel 47979, frame 289 | Iosafe, Inc. | Cru Acquisition Group, LLC Dba Cru-Dataport LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 17, 2020 Reel 54391, frame 261 | CDSG Holdco, LLC; Cru Data Security Group, LLC | Pacific Mercantile Bank | Security Interest |
| Nov 18, 2025 Reel 72949, frame 773 | CDSG Holdco, LLC | Cru Data Security Group, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 18, 2025 Reel 73609, frame 967 | Cru Data Security Group, LLC | CDSG Holdco, LLC | Change of Name |
| Nov 18, 2025 Reel 73612, frame 838 | Cru Acquisition Group, LLC | Cru Data Security Group, LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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Citations
35
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2007 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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