Term ends Mar 28, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Jan 9, 2028
Held by Khoros, LLC
Filed Jan 9, 2008 as application 11/971,856 · Granted Jul 12, 2011
Base term plus 809 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2030
Clock starts
Jan 9, 2008
Jan 9, 2008
Term ends
Mar 28, 2030
Mar 28, 2030
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
809
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.
3
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 809 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 Jan 9, 2008, when this application, 11/971,856, was filed | Jan 9, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +809 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 28, 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 28, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,979,369 | this patent Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
| US 8,412,657 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
| US 8,886,580 | In force Jan 2028 | Jan 2028 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 2008 Reel 20419, frame 638 | Grenier, Pierre; Lo, Eddie; Sandhu, Satinderpal | Keibi Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 10, 2008 reel/frame not recorded | Keibi Technologies, Inc. | Hunt Ventures Fund I, L.P. | Security Agreement |
| Oct 10, 2008 reel/frame not recorded | Keibi Technologies, Inc. | Catamount Ventures Ii, L.p. | Security Agreement |
| Oct 10, 2008 Reel 21665, frame 156 | Keibi Technologies, Inc. | Hunt Ventures Fund I, L.P.; Catamount Ventures Ii, L.p. | Security Agreement |
| Jun 1, 2009 Reel 22762, frame 369 | Hunt Ventures Fund I, L.P.; Catamount Ventures Ii, L.p. | Keibi Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 27, 2011 Reel 26508, frame 180 | Keibi Technologies, Inc. | Lithium Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 16, 2016 Reel 40348, frame 871 | Lithium Technologies, Inc.; Lithium International, Inc. | Hercules Capital, Inc., as Agent | Security Interest |
| Nov 17, 2016 Reel 40362, frame 169 | Lithium Technologies, Inc. | Silicon Valley Bank | Security Interest |
| Jul 28, 2017 reel/frame not recorded | Hercules Capital, Inc., as Agent | Lithium Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 28, 2017 reel/frame not recorded | Hercules Capital, Inc., as Agent | Lithium International, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 28, 2017 Reel 43135, frame 667 | Silicon Valley Bank | Lithium Technologies, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jul 28, 2017 Reel 43135, frame 464 | Hercules Capital, Inc., as Agent | Lithium Technologies, Inc.; Lithium International, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 12, 2017 Reel 43829, frame 780 | Lithium Technologies, Inc. | Lithium Technologies, LLC | Entity Conversion |
| Oct 4, 2017 Reel 44117, frame 161 | Lithium Technologies, LLC | Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc., as Collateral Agent | Patent Security Agreement |
| Apr 17, 2019 Reel 48939, frame 818 | Lithium Technologies, LLC | Khoros, LLC | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2030
Term ends Mar 28, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 809 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
215
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.
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