Term ends Nov 28, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 16, 2026
Filed Mar 16, 2006 as application 11/276,856 · Granted Apr 13, 2010
Base term plus 622 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2027
Clock starts
Mar 16, 2006
Mar 16, 2006
Term ends
Nov 28, 2027
Nov 28, 2027
Granted
Apr 13, 2010
Apr 13, 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
622
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.
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 runs 622 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 Mar 16, 2006, when this application, 11/276,856, was filed | Mar 16, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +622 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 28, 2027 | 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 28, 2027 | 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 | Term ended 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 | this patent 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 34223, frame 965 | 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 21, 2016 Reel 41116, frame 560 | 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 972 | 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
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
Nov 2027
Term ends Nov 28, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 622 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
170
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
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.