Lapsed Apr 2, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 19, 2028
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Innotec, Corp.
Filed Apr 6, 2010 as application 12/754,866 · Granted Apr 2, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 314 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Lapsed Apr 2, 2025
2008
2028
Clock starts
Mar 19, 2008
Mar 19, 2008
No longer in force
Apr 2, 2025
Apr 2, 2025
Granted
Apr 2, 2013
Apr 2, 2013
Term would have run to
Oct 29, 2028
Oct 29, 2028
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
314
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 7,712,933.
2 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.
Its term would have run to Oct 29, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 314 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Mar 19, 2008, when application 12/051,512, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 6, 2010) | Mar 19, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +314 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 27, 2029 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,712,933) | capped to Oct 29, 2028 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Apr 2, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 2, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,712,933 | In force Oct 2028 | Oct 2028 |
| US 8,408,773 | this patent Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
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 6, 2010 Reel 24191, frame 724 | Judge, Michael K. | Interlum, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 18, 2012 Reel 28979, frame 979 | Interlum, LLC | Innotec, Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 5, 2020 Reel 54290, frame 669 | Innotec, Corp. | Cibc Bank USA | Security Interest |
| Feb 10, 2024 Reel 66434, frame 140 | Cibc Bank USA | Innotec, Corp. | Release of Security Interest |
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Note
The 314 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 7,712,933.
Citations
56
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2013 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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