Term ends Mar 15, 2027 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by DRNC Holdings, Inc.

Filed Apr 18, 2006 as application 11/406,675 · Granted Oct 16, 2012

Base term plus 331 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends Mar 15, 2027

2006 2027

Clock starts
Apr 18, 2006

Term ends
Mar 15, 2027

Granted
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

331

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.

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 331 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 Apr 18, 2006, when this application, 11/406,675, was filed	Apr 18, 2026	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+331 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Mar 15, 2027	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	Mar 15, 2027	High confidence

This family

US 8,291,095	this patent Mar 2027	Mar 2027
US 8,738,787	Term ended Oct 2026	Oct 2026
US 8,738,734	In force May 2027	May 2027
US 9,183,576	In force Mar 2027	Mar 2027

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 18, 2006 Reel 17800, frame 608	Cobb, Jonathan W.; Bloom, Ryan B.	Kiptronic, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jan 7, 2009 Reel 22082, frame 847	Kiptronic Inc.	Square 1 Bank	Security Interest
May 13, 2009 Reel 22681, frame 325	Square 1 Bank	Kiptronic Inc.	Release of Security Interest
Jun 4, 2009 Reel 22784, frame 833	Kiptronic Inc.	Limelight Networks, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Nov 15, 2023 Reel 65597, frame 212	Edgio, Inc.; Mojo Merger Sub, LLC	Lynrock Lake Master Fund LP [Lynrock Lake Partners LLC, Its General Partner]	Patent Security Agreement
Nov 15, 2023 Reel 65597, frame 406	Edgio, Inc.; Mojo Merger Sub, LLC	U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association	Patent Security Agreement
Aug 23, 2024 Reel 68763, frame 276	Edgio, Inc.; Mojo Merger Sub, LLC	Lynrock Lake Master Fund LP [Lynrock Lake Partners LLC, Its General Partner]	Patent Security Agreement
Sep 9, 2024 Reel 68898, frame 281	Limelight Networks, Inc.	Edgio, Inc.	Change of Name
Jan 30, 2025 Reel 70071, frame 327	Edgio, Inc.	DRNC Holdings, Inc.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jul 3, 2025 Reel 71817, frame 877	Lynrock Lake Master Fund LP	Uplynk, Inc. (F/K/A Edgio, Inc.); Mojo Merger Sub, LLC	Release of Patent Security Agreement [recorded at Reel/Frame 065597/0212]
Jul 3, 2025 Reel 71818, frame 22	Lynrock Lake Master Fund LP	Uplynk, Inc. (F/K/A Edgio, Inc.); Mojo Merger Sub, LLC	Release of Patent Security Agreement [recorded at Reel/Frame 068763/0276]
Jul 3, 2025 reel/frame not recorded	Lynrock Lake Master Fund LP	Uplynk, Inc. (F/K/A Edgio, Inc.)	Release of Patent Security Agreement [recorded at Reel/Frame 065597/0212]
Jul 3, 2025 reel/frame not recorded	Lynrock Lake Master Fund LP	Mojo Merger Sub, LLC	Release of Patent Security Agreement [recorded at Reel/Frame 065597/0212]
Jul 3, 2025 reel/frame not recorded	Lynrock Lake Master Fund LP	Uplynk, Inc. (F/K/A Edgio, Inc.)	Release of Patent Security Agreement [recorded at Reel/Frame 068763/0276]
Jul 3, 2025 reel/frame not recorded	Lynrock Lake Master Fund LP	Mojo Merger Sub, LLC	Release of Patent Security Agreement [recorded at Reel/Frame 068763/0276]
Jul 9, 2025 Reel 71875, frame 105	U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association	Uplynk, Inc. (F/K/A Edgio, Inc.)	Release of Patent Security Agreement [recorded at Reel/Frame 065597/0406]

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.

What's changing

Mar 2027

Term ends Mar 15, 2027. No further fees fall due before then

Note

The 331 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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