Also listed on Action Target Acquisition Corp., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Mar 2, 2029 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 29, 2025
Held by Action Target Inc.
Filed Dec 29, 2005 as application 11/321,738 · Granted Sep 7, 2010
Base term plus 1159 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2029
Clock starts
Dec 29, 2005
Dec 29, 2005
Term ends
Mar 2, 2029
Mar 2, 2029
Granted
Sep 7, 2010
Sep 7, 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
1,159
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 1159 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 Dec 29, 2005, when this application, 11/321,738, was filed | Dec 29, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1159 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 2, 2029 | 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 | Mar 2, 2029 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,789,666 | this patent Mar 2029 | Mar 2029 |
| Application 12/817,990 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2006 Reel 17756, frame 765 | Sovine, Addison; Bassett, David; Wright, Tom; Bateman, Kyle; Sovine, James; Marshall, Thomas | Action Target, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 21, 2008 Reel 20976, frame 75 | Action Target Inc. | Action Target Acquisition Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 29, 2008 Reel 21006, frame 616 | Action Target Acquisition Corp. | BB&T Capital Partners/Windsor Mezzanine Fund, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Intellectual Property |
| Apr 21, 2009 Reel 22562, frame 731 | Action Target Inc., F/K/A Action Target Acquisition Corp. | BB&T Capital Partners/Windsor Mezzanine Fund, LLC | Notice of Grant of Security Interest in Intellectual Property |
| Nov 27, 2013 Reel 31736, frame 870 | Action Target Inc.; Law Enforcement Targets, Inc. | Zions First National Bank | Security Agreement |
| Aug 25, 2016 Reel 39809, frame 509 | Action Target Acquisition Corp. | Action Target Inc. | Change of Name |
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
Mar 2029
Term ends Mar 2, 2029. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1159 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
57
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2010 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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