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Credential Generation System and Method for Communications Devices and Device Management Servers

US 8,438,391 In force
OverviewFamilyAssignmentsSources & methods

Also listed on Mformation Software Technologies LLC, an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.

Term ends Mar 26, 2028 · High confidence

Filed Aug 15, 2011 as application 13/209,519 · Granted May 7, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
20 years from filing
2008 2028
Clock starts
Mar 26, 2008
Term ends
Mar 26, 2028
Granted
May 7, 2013
base term 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,001,379, to Mar 26, 2028. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
3
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Mar 26, 2008, when application 12/055,752, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Aug 15, 2011)Mar 26, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustmentNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,001,379)resolves to Mar 26, 2028, no earlier than this term, so no changeHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events3 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderMar 26, 2028High confidence

This family

US 8,001,379In force
Jan 2030
Jan 2030
Application PCT/US2008/060028PCT application
no patent term
no patent term
US 8,438,391this patent
Mar 2028
Mar 2028
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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Mar 14, 2014
Reel 32443, frame 508
Daskalopoulos, Vasilios; Nath, Badri; Kushwaha, RakeshMformation Technologies Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 2, 2014
Reel 33005, frame 564
Mformation Technologies Inc.Mformation Software Technologies Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 2, 2014
Reel 33072, frame 760
Mformation Software Technologies, Inc.Mformation Software Technologies LLCChange of Name
May 25, 2016
Reel 38715, frame 431
Mformation Software Technologies LLCAlcatel-Lucent USA Inc.Merger
Mar 13, 2019
Reel 48581, frame 530
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.Nokia of America CorporationChange of Name

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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