Collateral for a security interest recorded Jan 4, 2019 (Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.).
Term ended Apr 28, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 24, 2025
Held by Parker Vision, Inc.
Filed Aug 30, 2006 as application 11/512,359 · Granted Apr 28, 2009
Base term plus 186 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Apr 28, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Oct 24, 2005
Oct 24, 2005
Term ended
Apr 28, 2026
Apr 28, 2026
Granted
Apr 28, 2009
Apr 28, 2009
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
186
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.
19
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 186 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 Oct 24, 2005, when application 11/256,172, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 30, 2006) | Oct 24, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +186 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 28, 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 | Apr 28, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,184,723 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2019 | Feb 2019 |
| US 7,835,709 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2022 | Nov 2022 |
| US 7,945,224 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2023 | May 2023 |
| US 7,355,470 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2020 | Apr 2020 |
| US 8,428,527 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 8,406,711 | In force no later than Nov 2026 | no later than Nov 2026 |
| US 7,526,261 | this patent Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 8,351,870 | In force no later than Apr 2027 | no later than Apr 2027 |
8 of 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 2006 Reel 18252, frame 891 | Sorrells, David F.; Rawlins, Gregory S.; Rawlins, Michael W. | Parker Vision, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 4, 2019 Reel 47905, frame 316 | Parkervision Inc. | Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. | Security Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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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
Note
The 186 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
71
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2009 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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