Term ended Oct 8, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 8, 2026
Held by Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
Filed Feb 8, 2006 as application 11/351,310 · Granted Nov 17, 2009
Base term plus 242 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 8, 2026
2006
2026
Clock starts
Feb 8, 2006
Feb 8, 2006
Term ended
Oct 8, 2026
Oct 8, 2026
Granted
Nov 17, 2009
Nov 17, 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
242
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 242 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 Feb 8, 2006, when this application, 11/351,310, was filed | Feb 8, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +242 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 8, 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 8, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,619,527 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| Application 12/619,538 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,358,211 | Term ended Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 2006 Reel 17631, frame 428 | Newman, David J.; Barnum, Garrett J. | PSC Scanning, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 17, 2006 Reel 17631, frame 367 | Friend, Matthew J.; Drew, Douglas A.; Aguirre, Gerardo; Easter, Ronald B. | Sensormatic Electronics Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 6, 2008 Reel 20907, frame 253 | PSC Scanning, Inc. | Datalogic Scanning, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Apr 9, 2010 Reel 24213, frame 49 | Sensormatic Electronics Corporation | Sensormatic Electronics, LLC | Merger |
| Jan 23, 2012 Reel 27575, frame 530 | Datalogic Scanning, Inc. | Datalogic ADC, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Feb 28, 2013 Reel 29894, frame 856 | Sensormatic Electronics, LLC | ADT Services GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 25, 2013 Reel 30290, frame 731 | ADT Services GmbH | Tyco Fire & Security GmbH | Merger |
| Oct 2, 2018 Reel 47182, frame 674 | Tyco Fire & Security GmbH | Sensormatic Electronics, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 3, 2018 Reel 47188, frame 715 | Tyco Fire & Security GmbH | Sensormatic Electronics, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 242 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
30
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
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