Term ended Oct 14, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 10, 2025
Held by Quantum Materials, LLC
Filed Jun 10, 2005 as application 11/149,887 · Granted Nov 4, 2008
Base term plus 491 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 14, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jun 10, 2005
Jun 10, 2005
Term ended
Oct 14, 2026
Oct 14, 2026
Granted
Nov 4, 2008
Nov 4, 2008
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
491
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.
3
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 491 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 Jun 10, 2005, when this application, 11/149,887, was filed | Jun 10, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +491 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 14, 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 | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Oct 14, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,445,834 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2006/021201 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,704,595 | Term ended Jun 2025 | Jun 2025 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2005 Reel 16683, frame 139 | Morin, Brian G. | Innegrity, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 17, 2011 Reel 26460, frame 315 | Innegrity LLC | Branch Banking and Trust Company | Security Agreement |
| Aug 25, 2011 Reel 26806, frame 410 | Morin, Brian G. | Milliken & Company | Associate Agreement |
| Sep 15, 2011 Reel 26912, frame 558 | Branch Banking and Trust Company | Rampart Fibers, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 26, 2011 Reel 27122, frame 841 | Rampart Fibers, LLC | Innegra Technologies, LLC | Change of Name |
| Aug 6, 2012 Reel 28734, frame 581 | Milliken & Company | Innegra Technologies, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 25, 2015 Reel 35906, frame 887 | Innegra Technologies, LLC | CCH Acquisition 2, LLC | Security Interest |
| Aug 10, 2023 Reel 64555, frame 44 | Innegra Technologies, LLC | Quantum Materials, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 27, 2023 Reel 65368, frame 271 | CCH Acquisitions 2, LLC | Innegra Technologies, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 491 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
13
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.
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