Term ends Jul 14, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jul 28, 2026
Held by Proteor USA, LLC
Filed Jul 28, 2006 as application 11/460,956 · Granted Feb 2, 2010
Base term plus 717 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2028
Clock starts
Jul 28, 2006
Jul 28, 2006
Term ends
Jul 14, 2028
Jul 14, 2028
Granted
Feb 2, 2010
Feb 2, 2010
base term
patent term adjustment
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
717
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.
2
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 717 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. 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 Jul 28, 2006, when this application, 11/460,956, was filed | Jul 28, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +717 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 14, 2028 | 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 | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jul 14, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,655,050 | this patent Jul 2028 | Jul 2028 |
| US 8,444,704 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 2008 Reel 20583, frame 327 | Palmer, Michael; Bisbee, Charles R., III | Freedom Innovations | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 7, 2008 Reel 20618, frame 964 | Freedom Innovations, Inc. | Freedom Innovations, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 14, 2008 Reel 20654, frame 47 | Freedom Innovations, LLC | Cit Healthcare, LLC | Security Agreement |
| Jul 13, 2011 Reel 26586, frame 819 | Freedom Innovations, LLC | Cit Healthcare LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 21, 2011 Reel 26628, frame 218 | Freedom Innovations, LLC; Freedom Innovations Holdings, LLC | Madison Capital Funding LLC | Security Agreement |
| Aug 1, 2011 Reel 26680, frame 532 | Palmer, Michael; Bisbee, Charles R., III | Freedom Innovations, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Name of the Assignee Previously Recorded on Reel 020583 Frame 0327. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Feb 27, 2012 Reel 27770, frame 840 | Freedom Innovations, LLC; Freedom Innovations Holdings, LLC | Madison Capital Funding LLC | Security Agreement |
| Sep 27, 2018 Reel 46995, frame 916 | Madison Capital Funding LLC | Freedom Innovations, LLC; Freedom Innovations Holdings, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 27, 2018 reel/frame not recorded | Madison Capital Funding LLC | Freedom Innovations, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 27, 2018 reel/frame not recorded | Madison Capital Funding LLC | Freedom Innovations Holdings, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 22, 2020 Reel 53007, frame 482 | Palmer, Michael; Bisbee, Charles R., III | Freedom Innovations, LLC | Corrective Assignment to Correct the State of Incorporation and Entity Type in the Assignment Previously Recorded on Reel 020583 Frame 0327. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Jan 19, 2021 Reel 54951, frame 252 | Freedom Innovations, LLC | Proteor USA, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Jul 2028
Term ends Jul 14, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 717 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
93
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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