Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 30, 2017 (Perceptive Credit Holdings, LP).
Term ended Jan 28, 2025 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Jan 28, 2025
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Singulex, Inc.
Filed Apr 4, 2007 as application 11/784,211 · Granted Aug 11, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Jan 28, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Jan 28, 2005
Jan 28, 2005
Term ended
Jan 28, 2025
Jan 28, 2025
Granted
Aug 11, 2009
Aug 11, 2009
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
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.
12
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. Confidence: Medium. 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 Jan 28, 2005, when application 11/048,660, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 4, 2007); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Jan 28, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | Jan 28, 2025 | Medium confidence |
This family
| Application 11/048,660 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,572,640 | this patent Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 9,040,305 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| Application 11/830,762 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/838,114 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 12/276,277 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,685,711 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 9,063,131 | Term ended Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2007 Reel 19457, frame 138 | Goix, Philippe J.; Puskas, Robert; Todd, John; Livingston, Richard A.; Held, Douglas | Singulex, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 14, 2015 Reel 36795, frame 185 | Singulex, Inc. | Oxford Finance LLC | Security Interest |
| Oct 4, 2016 Reel 40224, frame 70 | Oxford Finance LLC | Singulex, Inc. | Termination and Release of Security Interest in Patents (Releases RF 036795/0185) |
| Mar 30, 2017 Reel 42117, frame 716 | Singulex, Inc. | Perceptive Credit Holdings, LP | Patent Security Agreement |
| May 6, 2019 Reel 49095, frame 371 | Perceptive Credit Holdings, LP | Fisk Ventures, LLC | Assignment of Patent Security Agreement |
| Jun 19, 2019 Reel 49516, frame 444 | Singulex, Inc. | EMD Millipore Corporation | License |
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Citations
147
later US patents cite this one
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