Collateral for a security interest recorded Jul 26, 2024 (Volta Energy Technologies, LLC).

Surrendered on reissue Sep 29, 2015 · Low confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Surrendered on reissue Sep 29, 2015 · its term and maintenance fees continue in US RE45,703 and US RE46,921 and US RE48,084.

Held by OneD Material, Inc.

Filed Feb 23, 2009 as application 12/391,057 · Granted Oct 2, 2012

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 395 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer

Today

Surrendered Sep 29, 2015

2005 2026

Clock starts
Dec 6, 2005

No longer in force
Sep 29, 2015

Granted
Oct 2, 2012

Term would have run to
Dec 6, 2025

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

395

Days of term adjustment

Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.

Capped

Terminal disclaimer

Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,179,561.

Not on record

Maintenance fees

USPTO's record of this patent carries no fee events. A gap in the record, not evidence of lapse.

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 395 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. USPTO's record of this patent carries no fee events, so no fee is counted as paid or unpaid. Confidence: Low. 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 Dec 6, 2005, when application 11/295,133, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 23, 2009)	Dec 6, 2025	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+395 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Jan 5, 2027	High confidence
Terminal disclaimer cap	Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,179,561)	capped to Dec 6, 2025	High confidence
Patent term extension	None on file	no change	High confidence
Fee events	No fee events in USPTO's record of this patent. A gap in the record, not evidence of lapse	no change	Medium confidence
Reissue	US RE45,703 and US RE46,921 and US RE48,084 issued Sep 29, 2015, and this patent's term continues in it (35 U.S.C. 251, 252)	surrendered Sep 29, 2015	High confidence
Further caveats on record	surrendered on reissue RE45703,RE46921,RE48084	Low confidence overall	Low confidence
Surrendered on reissue	The steps above, in order	Sep 29, 2015	Low confidence

This family

US 7,179,561	Term ended Dec 2025	Dec 2025
US 7,939,218	In force Mar 2029	Mar 2029
US 7,977,013	Term ended Dec 2025	Dec 2025
US 7,842,432	In force Nov 2027	Nov 2027
US 7,977,007	Term ended Dec 2025	Dec 2025
US 8,278,011	this patent Sep 2015	Sep 2015
US 8,357,475	Term ended Dec 2025	Dec 2025
US 8,440,369	Term ended Dec 2025	Dec 2025

8 of 11 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
Apr 30, 2009 Reel 22622, frame 534	Zhu, Yimin; Goldman, Jay L.; Qian, Baixin; Stefan, Ionel C.	Nanosys, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Dec 13, 2012 Reel 29496, frame 312	Nanosys, Inc.	Energy, United States Department Of	Confirmatory License
Apr 25, 2013 Reel 30285, frame 829	PRVP Holdings, LLC	Nanosys, Inc.	Security Agreement
Jun 12, 2013 Reel 30599, frame 907	Nanosys, Inc.	Nanosys, Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Feb 13, 2014 Reel 32264, frame 148	Nanosys, Inc.	OneD Material LLC	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 14, 2014 Reel 32447, frame 937	OneD Material LLC	Mpeg La, L.l.c.	Security Interest
Nov 5, 2014 Reel 34171, frame 227	OneD Material LLC	Mpeg La, L.l.c.	Security Interest
Oct 15, 2016 Reel 40373, frame 484	Mpeg La, L.l.c	OneD Material LLC	Release of Security Interest
Jul 31, 2020 Reel 53375, frame 462	OneD Material LLC	OneD Material, Inc.	Change of Name
Jul 26, 2024 Reel 68174, frame 120	OneD Material, Inc.	Volta Energy Technologies, LLC, as Collateral Agent	Patent Security Agreement

Sources

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Note

The 395 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Disclaimer cap

This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,179,561.

Citations

114

later US patents cite this one

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