Term ended Jun 26, 2021 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 26, 2021
Held by Ada-Es, Inc.
Filed Jul 30, 2002 as application 10/209,083 · Granted Feb 19, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Jun 26, 2021
2001
2026
Clock starts
Jun 26, 2001
Jun 26, 2001
Term ended
Jun 26, 2021
Jun 26, 2021
Granted
Feb 19, 2008
Feb 19, 2008
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.
9
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: 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 Jun 26, 2001, when application 09/893,079, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jul 30, 2002) | Jun 26, 2021 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High 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 | Jun 26, 2021 | High confidence |
This family
| US 6,729,248 | Term ended Nov 2021 | Nov 2021 |
| US 6,773,471 | Term ended Jun 2021 | Jun 2021 |
| US 7,332,002 | this patent Jun 2021 | Jun 2021 |
| US 8,919,266 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 8,124,036 | In force Nov 2028 | Nov 2028 |
| US 8,439,989 | Term ended Feb 2022 | Feb 2022 |
| US 8,293,196 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 9,951,287 | Term ended Jan 2022 | Jan 2022 |
8 of 9 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 7, 2004 Reel 15192, frame 802 | Johnson, Stephen Allen; Wurster, John; Comer, John Philip | Ada Environmental Solutions, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 19, 2011 Reel 27411, frame 561 | Ada Environmental Solutions LLC | Ada-Es, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 23, 2015 Reel 36865, frame 55 | Ada-Es, Inc. | Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Jul 1, 2016 Reel 39064, frame 268 | Wilmington Trust, National Association | Ada-Es, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 7, 2018 Reel 47742, frame 652 | Ada-Es, Inc. | The Bank of New York Mellon, as Administrative Agent | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Patents |
| Jun 4, 2021 Reel 56483, frame 657 | The Bank of New York Mellon, as Administrative Agent | Ada-Es, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Citations
110
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2008 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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