Lapsed Apr 15, 2016 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 28, 2026
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Triad National Security, LLC
Filed Apr 28, 2006 as application 11/413,548 · Granted Apr 15, 2008
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 48 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Apr 15, 2016
2006
2026
Clock starts
Apr 28, 2006
Apr 28, 2006
No longer in force
Apr 15, 2016
Apr 15, 2016
Granted
Apr 15, 2008
Apr 15, 2008
Term would have run to
Jun 15, 2026
Jun 15, 2026
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
48
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
25
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jun 15, 2026: its 20-year base term plus 48 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 28, 2006, when this application, 11/413,548, was filed | Apr 28, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +48 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 15, 2026 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Apr 15, 2016 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 15, 2016 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,358,502 | this patent Apr 2016 | Apr 2016 |
| Application 12/238,774 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2008/013454 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 12/507,503 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,752,386 | In force Apr 2033 | Apr 2033 |
| US 8,535,006 | In force May 2032 | May 2032 |
| US 8,714,926 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2022 | May 2022 |
| US 8,764,394 | In force Feb 2033 | Feb 2033 |
8 of 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 2006 Reel 17937, frame 410 | The Regents of the University of California | Los Alamos National Security, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 30, 2006 Reel 17937, frame 419 | Watson, Scott | The Regents of the University of California | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 5, 2007 Reel 20212, frame 752 | Los Alamos National Security | Energy, Department Of | Confirmatory License |
| Apr 25, 2011 Reel 26172, frame 668 | Appleby, David; Fraser, Iain | Mikro Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 7, 2018 Reel 47446, frame 849 | Los Alamos National Security, LLC | Triad National Security, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 48 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
30
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2008 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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