Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 26, 2024 (Volta Energy Technologies, LLC).
Term ended Dec 6, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 20, 2026
Held by OneD Material, Inc.
Filed Dec 20, 2006 as application 11/642,241 · Granted Jul 12, 2011
Base term plus 1048 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Dec 6, 2025
2006
2026
Clock starts
Dec 20, 2006
Dec 20, 2006
Term ended
Dec 6, 2025
Dec 6, 2025
Granted
Jul 12, 2011
Jul 12, 2011
base term
after the term ends
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
1,048
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,179,561.
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.
11
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 1048 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. All three maintenance fees were paid, so no fee lapse ended it. 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 20, 2006, when this application, 11/642,241, was filed | Dec 20, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1048 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Nov 2, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,179,561) | capped to Dec 6, 2025 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 6, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,179,561 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 7,939,218 | In force Mar 2029 | Mar 2029 |
| US 7,977,013 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 7,842,432 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
| US 7,977,007 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 8,278,011 | Surrendered on reissue Sep 2015 | Sep 2015 |
| US 8,357,475 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 8,440,369 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
8 of 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 2013 Reel 30285, frame 829 | PRVP Holdings, LLC | Nanosys, Inc. | Security Agreement |
| Jun 12, 2013 Reel 30599, frame 907 | Nanosys, Inc. | Nanosys, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Feb 13, 2014 Reel 32264, frame 148 | Nanosys, Inc. | OneD Material LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 14, 2014 Reel 32447, frame 937 | OneD Material LLC | Mpeg La, L.l.c. | Security Interest |
| Nov 5, 2014 Reel 34171, frame 227 | OneD Material LLC | Mpeg La, L.l.c. | Security Interest |
| Oct 15, 2016 Reel 40373, frame 484 | Mpeg La, L.l.c | OneD Material LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 31, 2020 Reel 53375, frame 462 | OneD Material LLC | OneD Material, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Jul 26, 2024 Reel 68174, frame 120 | OneD Material, Inc. | Volta Energy Technologies, LLC, as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
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Note
The 1048 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,179,561.
Citations
108
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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