Term ends Dec 1, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Sep 9, 2025
Held by Borealis Technology Oy
Filed Oct 18, 2007 as application 11/662,151 · Granted Jun 8, 2010
Base term plus 448 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2026
Clock starts
Sep 9, 2005
Sep 9, 2005
Term ends
Dec 1, 2026
Dec 1, 2026
Granted
Jun 8, 2010
Jun 8, 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
448
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 448 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 Sep 9, 2005, when application PCT/EP2005/009721, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Oct 18, 2007) | Sep 9, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +448 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 1, 2026 | 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 | Dec 1, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,732,711 | this patent Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2007 Reel 19966, frame 434 | Ericcson, Anders; Gustafsson, Anders; Broman, Claes; Lindbom, Lena; Nilsson, Ulf; Smedberg, Annika; Campus, Alfred; Carlsson, Roger; Fagrell, Ola; Bostrom, Jan-ove; Farkas, Andreas; Carstensen, Peter | Borealis Technology Oy | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 25, 2008 Reel 20858, frame 76 | Ericsson, Anders; Gustafsson, Anders; Broman, Claes; Lindbom, Lena; Nilsson, Ulf; Smedberg, Annika; Campus, Alfred; Carlsson, Roger; Fagrell, Ola; Bostrom, Jan-ove; Farkas, Andreas; Carstensen, Peter | Borealis Technology Oy | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Spelling of Last Name of Inventor, Anders Ericsson Previously Recorded on Reel 019966 Frame 0434. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Feb 23, 2022 Reel 59219, frame 949 | Borealis AG | Borealis AG | Change of Address |
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What's changing
Dec 2026
Term ends Dec 1, 2026. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 448 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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