Collateral for a security interest recorded Aug 4, 2021 (U.S. Bank National Association).
Term ended Nov 30, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 22, 2024
Held by Kaleo, Inc.
Filed Nov 21, 2006 as application 11/562,061 · Granted Jan 19, 2010
Base term plus 376 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Nov 30, 2025
2004
2026
Clock starts
Nov 22, 2004
Nov 22, 2004
Term ended
Nov 30, 2025
Nov 30, 2025
Granted
Jan 19, 2010
Jan 19, 2010
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
376
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,416,540.
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.
67
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 376 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Nov 22, 2004, when application PCT/US2004/039386, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 21, 2006) | Nov 22, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +376 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 3, 2025 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,416,540) | capped to Nov 30, 2025 | 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 30, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,416,540 | Term ended Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| Application PCT/US2004/039386 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 60/648,822 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application 60/731,886 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2006/003415 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,749,194 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| Application 60/787,046 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,648,482 | this patent Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
8 of 67 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 21, 2006 Reel 18542, frame 567 | Edwards, Evan T.; Edwards, Eric S.; Licata, Mark J. | Intelliject, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 23, 2009 Reel 22144, frame 704 | Intelliject, LLC | Intelliject, Inc. | Merger |
| Jan 14, 2014 Reel 32005, frame 932 | Intelliject, Inc. | Kaleo, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Aug 4, 2021 Reel 57076, frame 316 | Kaleo, Inc. | U.S. Bank National Association | Security Interest |
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Note
The 376 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,416,540.
Citations
267
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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