Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 3, 2025 (Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch).
Term ends Oct 25, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Nov 25, 2023
Held by IGT
Filed Jan 8, 2004 as application 10/755,202 · Granted Sep 28, 2010
Base term plus 1430 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2003
2027
Clock starts
Nov 25, 2003
Nov 25, 2003
Term ends
Oct 25, 2027
Oct 25, 2027
Granted
Sep 28, 2010
Sep 28, 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
1,430
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.
54
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 1430 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 Nov 25, 2003, when application 10/723,375, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 8, 2004) | Nov 25, 2023 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1430 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 25, 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 | Oct 25, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,749,077 | Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2018 | Jul 2018 |
| US 6,431,983 | Term ended no later than Jun 2016 | no later than Jun 2016 |
| US 7,798,899 | Term ended Jun 2016 | Jun 2016 |
| Application 60/297,490 | Pending not computed | not computed |
| US 6,832,956 | Lapsed on the fee record Dec 2016 | Dec 2016 |
| US 6,800,030 | Term ended no later than Jun 2016 | no later than Jun 2016 |
| US D488,839 | Term ended Apr 2018 | Apr 2018 |
| US 6,910,964 | Term ended no later than Oct 2014 | no later than Oct 2014 |
8 of 54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2004 Reel 15070, frame 20 | Atkinson, Keith W. | Acres Gaming Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 24, 2006 Reel 17663, frame 341 | Acres Gaming Incorporated | IGT | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 3, 2025 Reel 71817, frame 394 | IGT | Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch, as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2027
Term ends Oct 25, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1430 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
331
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.
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