Term ends Mar 19, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 15, 2025
Held by Agamatrix, Inc.
Filed Apr 15, 2005 as application 10/907,790 · Granted Jun 21, 2011
Base term plus 1799 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2030
Clock starts
Apr 15, 2005
Apr 15, 2005
Term ends
Mar 19, 2030
Mar 19, 2030
Granted
Jun 21, 2011
Jun 21, 2011
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
1,799
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.
8
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 1799 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 Apr 15, 2005, when this application, 10/907,790, was filed | Apr 15, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1799 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 19, 2030 | 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 19, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,964,146 | this patent Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
| US 8,591,815 | Term ended May 2025 | May 2025 |
| Application 13/108,682 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,852,510 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 9,097,651 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 9,267,910 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 9,709,519 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| US 10,983,083 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2005 Reel 16218, frame 771 | Harding, Ian; Iyengar, Sridhar G.; Wei, Baoguo; Vu, Sonny; Huang, Eileen; Flaherty, Joseph; Diamond, Steven; Forest, Martin | Agamatrix, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 30, 2015 Reel 37405, frame 728 | Agamatrix, Inc. | Midcap Financial Trust | Security Interest |
| Sep 29, 2017 Reel 44034, frame 372 | Midcap Financial Trust | Agamatrix, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 29, 2017 Reel 44063, frame 828 | Agamatrix, Inc. | Prospect Capital Corporation | Patent Security Agreement |
| Nov 7, 2017 Reel 44391, frame 941 | Midcap Financial Trust | Agamatrix, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Address Previously Recorded at Reel: 044034 Frame: 0372. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Release of Security Interest. |
| May 11, 2023 Reel 63604, frame 749 | Prospect Capital Corporation, As Collateral Agent | Agamatrix, Inc. | Release of Patent Security Agreement |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2030
Term ends Mar 19, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1799 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
159
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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