Also listed on Thales Communications & Security SAS, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Dec 31, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Oct 31, 2026
Held by In-Idt
Filed Feb 5, 2009 as application 12/092,723 · Granted Jun 5, 2012
Base term plus 792 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2006
2028
Clock starts
Oct 31, 2006
Oct 31, 2006
Term ends
Dec 31, 2028
Dec 31, 2028
Granted
Jun 5, 2012
Jun 5, 2012
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
792
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.
2
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 792 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 Oct 31, 2006, when application PCT/EP2006/067975, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 5, 2009) | Oct 31, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +792 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Dec 31, 2028 | 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 | Dec 31, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,194,943 | this patent Dec 2028 | Dec 2028 |
1 of 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2009 Reel 22209, frame 66 | Marti, Sandra; Allouche, Cyril | Thales | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Dec 1, 2017 Reel 44850, frame 29 | Thales | Thales Communications & Security S.A.S. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 24, 2018 Reel 46380, frame 450 | Thales Communications & Security SAS | 191CENTELEC SAS | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 11, 2018 Reel 45909, frame 735 | 191CENTELEC SAS | Idt | Change of Name |
| Apr 24, 2019 Reel 48990, frame 897 | Idt | In-Idt | Change of Name |
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
Dec 2028
Term ends Dec 31, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 792 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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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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