Term ends Mar 19, 2030 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 14, 2027
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by The Mathworks, Inc.
Filed May 15, 2007 as application 11/748,938 · Granted Aug 30, 2011
Base term plus 1129 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2007
2030
Clock starts
Feb 14, 2007
Feb 14, 2007
Term ends
Mar 19, 2030
Mar 19, 2030
Granted
Aug 30, 2011
Aug 30, 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
1,129
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.
19
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 1129 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. All three maintenance fees are recorded paid; no more fees are due. Confidence: Medium. 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 Feb 14, 2007, when application 11/706,805, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 15, 2007); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Feb 14, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1129 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 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 8,010,954 | this patent Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
| US 8,108,845 | In force Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| Application 11/841,861 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application PCT/US2008/001921 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2008/062162 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,225,300 | In force Oct 2029 | Oct 2029 |
| US 8,239,844 | In force Sep 2029 | Sep 2029 |
| US 8,255,889 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
8 of 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 2007 Reel 19898, frame 530 | Little, John N.; Hicklin, Joseph F.; Martin, Jocelyn Luke; Moulana, Nausheen B.; Stefansson, Halldor N.; Dean, Loren; Lurie, Roy E.; Johnson, Stephen C.; Anderson, Penelope L.; Karr, Michael E.; Kinchen, Jason A. | The Mathworks, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Mar 2030
Term ends Mar 19, 2030. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1129 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
64
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
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.