Term ends Oct 27, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended May 20, 2025
Held by Idemia Public Security France
Filed Nov 2, 2006 as application 11/579,420 · Granted Jul 12, 2011
Base term plus 1256 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2028
Clock starts
May 20, 2005
May 20, 2005
Term ends
Oct 27, 2028
Oct 27, 2028
Granted
Jul 12, 2011
Jul 12, 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
1,256
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.
2
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 1256 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 May 20, 2005, when application PCT/FR2005/001265, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 2, 2006) | May 20, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1256 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 27, 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 | Oct 27, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,978,883 | this patent Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 2006 Reel 18549, frame 612 | Routh, Alain; Monteilliet, Gilles; Cottard, Martin; Fondeur, Jean-christopher | Sagem Defense Securite | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 23, 2008 Reel 21137, frame 94 | Sagem Defense Securite | Sagem Securite | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 30, 2010 Reel 25430, frame 863 | Sagem Securite | Morpho | Change of Name |
| Mar 1, 2023 Reel 62895, frame 357 | Morpho | Idemia Identity & Security France | Change of Name |
| Jul 14, 2025 Reel 71930, frame 625 | Idemia Identity & Security France | Idemia Public Security France | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 1, 2026 Reel 75530, frame 67 | Idemia Identity & Security France | Idemia Public Security France | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Patent Number Replacing 10158873 with 10185873 Previously Recorded on Reel 71930 Frame 625. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment . |
Sources
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What's changing
Oct 2028
Term ends Oct 27, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1256 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
55
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2011 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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