Also listed on Venturi Wireless, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Nov 4, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 4, 2025
Held by Cyclops Technologies LLC
Filed May 4, 2005 as application 11/122,868 · Granted Apr 6, 2010
Base term plus 1280 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2028
Clock starts
May 4, 2005
May 4, 2005
Term ends
Nov 4, 2028
Nov 4, 2028
Granted
Apr 6, 2010
Apr 6, 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
1,280
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.
9
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 1280 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 May 4, 2005, when this application, 11/122,868, was filed | May 4, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1280 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 4, 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 | Nov 4, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,694,008 | this patent Nov 2028 | Nov 2028 |
| Application PCT/US2006/017278 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,945,692 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 7,860,997 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 7,860,998 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 8,010,693 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 8,108,457 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 8,296,353 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
8 of 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 2006 Reel 17362, frame 1 | Chang, Koling; Ramadas, Krishna; Ho, Loc N. | Venturi Wireless | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 14, 2007 Reel 19317, frame 327 | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing IV, Inc.; Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| May 14, 2007 reel/frame not recorded | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing IV, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| May 14, 2007 reel/frame not recorded | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Mar 14, 2013 Reel 30001, frame 894 | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Venturi IP LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 14, 2013 Reel 30004, frame 1 | Venturi IP LLC | Fortress Credit Corp. | Security Agreement |
| May 12, 2014 Reel 32872, frame 836 | Venture Lending & Leasing V, Inc. and Venture Lending & Leasing IV, Inc. | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 17, 2016 Reel 40653, frame 708 | Venturi IP LLC | Gran V4, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 17, 2016 Reel 40653, frame 717 | ML Tech, LLC | Venturi IP LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 17, 2016 Reel 41001, frame 974 | Gran V4, LLC | ML Tech, LLC | Change of Name |
| Oct 29, 2018 Reel 47344, frame 866 | Venturi IP LLC | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 13, 2024 Reel 69583, frame 118 | Drawbridge Dso Securities LLC | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 13, 2024 Reel 69648, frame 94 | Fortress Credit Corp. | Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund LP | Transfer of Security Interest |
| Dec 13, 2024 Reel 69648, frame 507 | Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund LP | Drawbridge Dso Securities LLC | Transfer of Security Interest |
| Dec 18, 2024 Reel 69627, frame 490 | Drawbridge Dso Securities LLC | Venturi IP LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 18, 2024 Reel 69736, frame 820 | Venturi Wireless | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Affidavit for Confirmation of Entity Name |
| Dec 19, 2024 Reel 69644, frame 629 | Drawbridge Dso Securities LLC | Venturi IP LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 19, 2024 Reel 69644, frame 929 | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | County of Santa Clara | Security Interest |
| Dec 19, 2024 Reel 69644, frame 933 | County of Santa Clara | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 20, 2024 Reel 69746, frame 606 | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Correct the Name of Assignee Previously Recorded at Reel: 17362 Frame: 1. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Jan 20, 2025 Reel 69956, frame 719 | Venturi Wireless, Inc. | IP3 2024, Series 924 of Allied Security Trust I | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 15, 2025 Reel 72575, frame 871 | IP3 2024, Series 924 of Allied Security Trust I | Cyclops Technologies LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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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
Nov 2028
Term ends Nov 4, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1280 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
355
later US patents cite this one
That is top 1% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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