Term ended Sep 7, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 23, 2025
Held by Contactwave LLC
Filed Dec 23, 2005 as application 11/306,336 · Granted May 12, 2009
Base term plus 258 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Sep 7, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Dec 23, 2005
Dec 23, 2005
Term ended
Sep 7, 2026
Sep 7, 2026
Granted
May 12, 2009
May 12, 2009
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
258
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.
13
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 258 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 Dec 23, 2005, when this application, 11/306,336, was filed | Dec 23, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +258 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Sep 7, 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 | Sep 7, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,254,893 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2020 | Aug 2020 |
| US 7,533,343 | this patent Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| US 7,593,721 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2017 | Sep 2017 |
| US 8,180,329 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2024 | May 2024 |
| US 10,122,845 | Grace period ended Nov 2028 | Nov 2028 |
| US 8,848,892 | Lapsed on the fee record Sep 2022 | Sep 2022 |
| Application 12/122,705 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/140,684 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2024 Reel 68880, frame 971 | Ratnakar, Nitesh, DR. | Mira Advanced Technology Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 8, 2025 Reel 69778, frame 811 | Mira Advanced Technology Systems, Inc. | Contactwave LLC | Assignment of Assignor's 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 258 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
37
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.