Lapsed Jan 24, 2016 on the fee record · Medium confidence
20-year base term ended Feb 16, 2026
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Enterprise Science Fund, LLC
Filed Nov 10, 2010 as application 12/927,229 · Granted Jan 24, 2012
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Lapsed Jan 24, 2016
2006
2026
Clock starts
Feb 16, 2006
Feb 16, 2006
No longer in force
Jan 24, 2016
Jan 24, 2016
Granted
Jan 24, 2012
Jan 24, 2012
Term would have run to
Feb 16, 2026
Feb 16, 2026
base term
after the term ends
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,466,420, to Feb 16, 2026. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
0 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.
7
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Feb 16, 2026: its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 16, 2006, when application 11/355,918, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 10, 2010); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Feb 16, 2026 | 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 | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,466,420) | resolves to Feb 16, 2026, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jan 24, 2016 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jan 24, 2016 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 7,466,420 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 7,463,359 | Term ended Sep 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| Application PCT/US2007/004290 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| Application PCT/US2007/004241 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,859,676 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 8,102,534 | this patent Jan 2016 | Jan 2016 |
| US 8,310,680 | Term ended Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2011 Reel 27007, frame 206 | Hyde, Roderick A. | Searete LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 4, 2011 Reel 27011, frame 654 | Searete LLC | The Invention Science Fund I LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 15, 2016 Reel 37540, frame 628 | The Invention Science Fund I, LLC | Deep Science, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 18, 2023 Reel 64943, frame 1 | Deep Science LLC | Enterprise Science Fund, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup
Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,466,420, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.