Also listed on ABB Patent GmbH, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Feb 12, 2031 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Jun 15, 2025
Held by ABB Schweiz AG
Filed Jun 15, 2005 as application 11/153,042 · Granted Oct 16, 2012
Base term plus 2068 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2031
Clock starts
Jun 15, 2005
Jun 15, 2005
Term ends
Feb 12, 2031
Feb 12, 2031
Granted
Oct 16, 2012
Oct 16, 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
2,068
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 2068 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 Jun 15, 2005, when this application, 11/153,042, was filed | Jun 15, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +2068 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 12, 2031 | 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 | Feb 12, 2031 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,290,708 | this patent Feb 2031 | Feb 2031 |
| US 7,447,702 | In force Nov 2026 | Nov 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2012 Reel 28674, frame 621 | Bader, Axel; Hansen, Sven; Schmidt, Steffen; Henrich, Kim | ABB Patent GmbH | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 1, 2026 Reel 75945, frame 815 | ABB Patent GmbH | ABB AG | Merger |
| Sep 16, 2026 Reel 76032, frame 694 | ABB AG | ABB Schweiz AG | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Feb 2031
Term ends Feb 12, 2031. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 2068 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
5
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2012 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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