Also listed on Valinge Innovation AB, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Jan 5, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Mar 30, 2025
Held by Valinge Innovation AB
Filed Mar 30, 2005 as application 11/092,748 · Granted Nov 30, 2010
Base term plus 1011 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2028
Clock starts
Mar 30, 2005
Mar 30, 2005
Term ends
Jan 5, 2028
Jan 5, 2028
Granted
Nov 30, 2010
Nov 30, 2010
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 15, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 15, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
1,011
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.
23
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 1011 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 30, 2005, when this application, 11/092,748, was filed | Mar 30, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1011 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 5, 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 | Jan 5, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,841,144 | this patent Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 7,866,110 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 7,841,145 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 8,042,311 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 8,341,915 | In force Jan 2029 | Jan 2029 |
| US 7,634,884 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
| US 8,381,477 | Term ended Oct 2025 | Oct 2025 |
| US 8,079,196 | Term ended Mar 2025 | Mar 2025 |
8 of 23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2005 Reel 16188, frame 742 | Pervan, Darko | Valinge Aluminium AB | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 7, 2009 Reel 23339, frame 902 | Valinge Aluminium AB | Valinge Innovation AB | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2028
Term ends Jan 5, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1011 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
610
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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