Term ended Oct 24, 2026 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 18, 2025
Held by Funzionano As
Filed Jun 29, 2007 as application 11/578,078 · Granted May 22, 2012
Base term plus 554 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Term ended Oct 24, 2026
2005
2026
Clock starts
Apr 18, 2005
Apr 18, 2005
Term ended
Oct 24, 2026
Oct 24, 2026
Granted
May 22, 2012
May 22, 2012
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
554
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 554 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 Apr 18, 2005, when application PCT/NO2005/000127, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jun 29, 2007) | Apr 18, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +554 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Oct 24, 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 | Oct 24, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,183,315 | this patent Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 8,481,628 | Term ended Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
2 of 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 2007 Reel 19046, frame 892 | Mannle, Ferdinand; Beylich, Jest; Hauge, Roger; Simon, Christian; Kleppe, Emil Arne; Gellein, Aage; Roseth, Kaare Roger | Nor-X-Industry As | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 20, 2019 Reel 50448, frame 101 | Nor-X-Industry As | Sinvent As | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 20, 2019 Reel 50448, frame 478 | Sintef Tto As | Funzionano As | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 20, 2019 Reel 50457, frame 225 | Sinvent As | Sintef Tto As | Change of Name |
| Oct 23, 2019 Reel 50800, frame 571 | Sintef Tto As | Funzionano As | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee's Address Previously Recorded at Reel: 050448 Frame: 0478. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
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 554 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
9
later US patents cite this one
That is above 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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