Collateral for a security interest recorded Dec 22, 2025 (Whitehorse Capital Origination, LLC).
Term ended Mar 19, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 27, 2024
Held by Metagenics LLC
Filed Apr 2, 2007 as application 10/590,424 · Granted Jan 10, 2012
Base term plus 751 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Mar 19, 2026
2004
2026
Clock starts
Feb 27, 2004
Feb 27, 2004
Term ended
Mar 19, 2026
Mar 19, 2026
Granted
Jan 10, 2012
Jan 10, 2012
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
751
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.
4
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 751 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Feb 27, 2004, when application 10/789,817, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 2, 2007) | Feb 27, 2024 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +751 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 19, 2026 | 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 | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 19, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,914,831 | In force no later than Feb 2027 | no later than Feb 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2005/006147 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,092,846 | this patent Mar 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| US 8,193,201 | Term ended Feb 2024 | Feb 2024 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 2007 Reel 19079, frame 199 | Babish, John G.; Tripp, Matthew L.; Bland, Jeffrey S. | Metaproteomics, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 15, 2009 Reel 23373, frame 684 | Meta Proteomics, LLC | Bank Of America, N.a. | Security Agreement |
| Oct 25, 2021 Reel 57909, frame 199 | Bank Of America, N.a. | Meta Proteomics, LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Nov 1, 2021 Reel 57981, frame 156 | Metagenics, Inc.; Metaproteomics, LLC | Fortress Credit Corp., as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Nov 4, 2021 Reel 58015, frame 602 | Metagenics, Inc.; Metaproteomics, LLC | Fortress Credit Corp. (as Collateral Agent) | Security Interest |
| Feb 16, 2024 Reel 66485, frame 677 | Metaproteomics, LLC | Metagenics LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 22, 2025 Reel 73293, frame 381 | Metagenics LLC | Whitehorse Capital Origination, LLC, as Agent | Security Interest |
| Dec 23, 2025 Reel 74050, frame 670 | Fortress Credit Corp. | Metagenics LLC (FKA Metagenics, Inc.); Metaproteomics, LLC | Termination and Release of Patent Security Agreement - Reel/Frame 058015/0602 |
| Dec 23, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Fortress Credit Corp. | Metagenics LLC (FKA Metagenics, Inc.) | Termination and Release of Patent Security Agreement - Reel/Frame 058015/0602 |
| Dec 23, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Fortress Credit Corp. | Metaproteomics, LLC | Termination and Release of Patent Security Agreement - Reel/Frame 058015/0602 |
| Dec 24, 2025 Reel 74057, frame 392 | Fortress Credit Corp. | Metagenics LLC (FKA Metagenics, Inc.); Metaproteomics, LLC | Termination and Release of Patent Security Agreement - Reel/Frame 057981/0156 |
| Dec 24, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Fortress Credit Corp. | Metagenics LLC (FKA Metagenics, Inc.) | Termination and Release of Patent Security Agreement - Reel/Frame 057981/0156 |
| Dec 24, 2025 reel/frame not recorded | Fortress Credit Corp. | Metaproteomics, LLC | Termination and Release of Patent Security Agreement - Reel/Frame 057981/0156 |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
What's changing
Note
The 751 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
1
later US patent cites this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2012 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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