Term ended Nov 3, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Aug 26, 2025
Held by Atomica Corp.
Filed Dec 16, 2005 as application 11/304,601 · Granted Aug 4, 2009
Base term plus 434 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Nov 3, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Aug 26, 2005
Aug 26, 2005
Term ended
Nov 3, 2026
Nov 3, 2026
Granted
Aug 4, 2009
Aug 4, 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
434
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.
6
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 434 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 Aug 26, 2005, when application 11/211,622, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 16, 2005) | Aug 26, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +434 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 3, 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 | Nov 3, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 11/211,622 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,569,926 | this patent Nov 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| Application 12/222,845 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,960,208 | Term ended no later than Aug 2025 | no later than Aug 2025 |
| US 8,288,211 | Lapsed on the fee record Oct 2020 | Oct 2020 |
| US 8,736,081 | Term ended Aug 2025 | Aug 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 2005 Reel 17374, frame 740 | Carlson, Gregory A.; Erlach, David M.; Paranjpye, Alok; Summers, Jeffery F. | Innovative Micro Technology | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 30, 2017 Reel 44553, frame 257 | Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. | Pacific Western Bank | Security Interest |
| Nov 30, 2017 Reel 44635, frame 492 | Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. | Agility Capital II, LLC | Security Interest |
| Oct 15, 2018 Reel 47237, frame 141 | Agility Capital II, LLC | Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 30, 2019 Reel 48195, frame 441 | Pacific Western Bank | Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 30, 2022 Reel 62253, frame 77 | Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. | Atomica Corp. | Change of Name |
| Jan 9, 2023 Reel 62320, frame 509 | Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. | Atomica Corp. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the City of the Assignee Previously Recorded on Reel 062253 Frame 0077. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Change of Name. |
| Feb 23, 2023 Reel 62841, frame 341 | Atomica Corp. | ST. Cloud Capital Partners IV SBIC, L.P. | Security Interest |
| Mar 12, 2025 Reel 70485, frame 737 | ST. Cloud Capital Partners IV SBIC, L.P. | Atomica Corp. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 434 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
51
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
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