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Method for Defining and Implementing Alarm/Notification by Exception

US 7,911,341 In force
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Term ends Oct 7, 2028 · High confidence

Filed Jan 24, 2008 as application 12/019,554 · Granted Mar 22, 2011
Base term plus 257 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2008 2028
Clock starts
Jan 24, 2008
Term ends
Oct 7, 2028
Granted
Mar 22, 2011
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
257
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.
235
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 257 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jan 24, 2008, when this application, 12/019,554, was filedJan 24, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+257 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordOct 7, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderOct 7, 2028High confidence

This family

US 8,335,842In force
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Jun 2030
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US 7,711,796In force
Mar 2028
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US 10,142,392In force
no later than Jan 2028
no later than Jan 2028
US 7,911,341this patent
Oct 2028
Oct 2028
Application 12/189,780Abandoned
not computed
not computed
US 8,473,619Term ended
no later than Mar 2025
no later than Mar 2025
US 7,896,458In force
Dec 2028
Dec 2028
8 of 235 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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Apr 10, 2008
Reel 20785, frame 542
Raji, Reza; Gutt, GeraldIcontrol Networks Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 12, 2019
Reel 48572, frame 694
Raji, Reza; Gutt, GeraldIcontrol Networks, Inc.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Receiving Party Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 20785 Frame: 542. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.

Sources

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