Term ended Mar 11, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 11, 2025
Filed Apr 7, 2005 as application 10/530,583 · Granted Nov 17, 2009
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Mar 11, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Mar 11, 2005
Mar 11, 2005
Term ended
Mar 11, 2025
Mar 11, 2025
Granted
Nov 17, 2009
Nov 17, 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.
103
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: 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 Mar 11, 2005, when application PCT/US2005/008298, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 7, 2005) | Mar 11, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High 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 | Mar 11, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 60/552,653 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2005/008297 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,620,706 | this patent Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 8,037,475 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 8,631,130 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
| US 9,413,687 | In force no later than Jan 2028 | no later than Jan 2028 |
| US 7,698,430 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
| US 8,930,536 | In force Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
8 of 103 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 15, 2010 Reel 24539, frame 242 | Cluster Resources, Inc. | Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Nov 20, 2014 Reel 34410, frame 619 | Jackson, David B. | Cluster Resources, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 11, 2015 Reel 35634, frame 954 | Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest |
| Dec 19, 2016 Reel 40671, frame 421 | Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc. | III Holdings 12, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 7, 2017 Reel 43108, frame 176 | Cluster Resources, Inc. | Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jul 7, 2017 Reel 43108, frame 283 | Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc. (Ut) | Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc. (De) | Merger |
| Jul 25, 2017 Reel 43319, frame 923 | Jackson, David B. | Cluster Resources, Inc. | Confirmatory Assignment |
| Mar 30, 2018 Reel 45949, frame 257 | Silicon Valley Bank | Adaptive Computing Enterprises, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Citations
145
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2009 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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