Also listed on Intellectual Ventures Assets 160 LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 12, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 10, 2025
Held by Fleet Connect Solutions LLC
Filed Aug 10, 2005 as application 11/200,730 · Granted Aug 12, 2008
Base term plus 489 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2026
Clock starts
Aug 10, 2005
Aug 10, 2005
Term ends
Dec 12, 2026
Dec 12, 2026
Granted
Aug 12, 2008
Aug 12, 2008
base term
patent term adjustment
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
489
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.
4
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 489 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Aug 10, 2005, when this application, 11/200,730, was filed | Aug 10, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +489 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 12, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 12, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,412,325 | this patent Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 7,741,968 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| US 7,701,360 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Application 90/019,771 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2005 Reel 16886, frame 860 | Tannenbaum, David H.; Tannenbaum, Mary C. | Union Beach L.P. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 1, 2011 Reel 27308, frame 603 | Tannenbaum, David H; Tannenbaum, Mary C | Union Beach Limited Partnership | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee's Name and Current Address Previously Recorded on Reel 016886 Frame 0860. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Correct Name and Address of Assignee. |
| Jan 8, 2012 Reel 27497, frame 436 | Union Beach Limited Partnership | Q Particle Research Ltd. L.L.C. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 11, 2015 Reel 37273, frame 426 | Q Particle Research Ltd. L.L.C. | Chemtron Research LLC | Merger |
| May 1, 2020 Reel 52547, frame 620 | Chemtron Research LLC | Intellectual Ventures Assets 160 LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 5, 2020 Reel 52853, frame 498 | Intellectual Ventures Assets 160 LLC | Fleet Connect Solutions LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
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
Dec 2026
Term ends Dec 12, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 489 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
12
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.