Lapsed Nov 27, 2020 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

Held by Assa Abloy AB

Filed Oct 29, 2009 as application 12/589,883 · Granted Nov 27, 2012

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 393 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Nov 27, 2020

2009 2030

Clock starts
Oct 29, 2009

No longer in force
Nov 27, 2020

Granted
Nov 27, 2012

Term would have run to
Nov 26, 2030

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

393

Days of term adjustment

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

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

1 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.

Its term would have run to Nov 26, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 393 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 29, 2009, when this application, 12/589,883, was filed	Oct 29, 2029	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+393 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	Nov 26, 2030	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	1 of 3 maintenance fees paid	lapsed Nov 27, 2020	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Nov 27, 2020	High confidence

This family

US 8,319,606	this patent Nov 2020	Nov 2020
Application PCT/US2010/002816	PCT application no patent term	no patent term
US 9,092,016	In force Oct 2029	Oct 2029
US 9,769,164	In force Oct 2029	Oct 2029

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
Nov 17, 2009 Reel 23528, frame 942	McGeachie, John J.	Corestreet, Ltd.	Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 11, 2014 Reel 32404, frame 759	Corestreet Ltd.	Assa Abloy AB	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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Note

The 393 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us

Citations

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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