Lapsed Jun 18, 2025 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends May 9, 2027
Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Atomica Corp.
Filed Jan 11, 2011 as application 12/929,257 · Granted Jun 18, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 52 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Jun 18, 2025
2007
2027
Clock starts
May 9, 2007
May 9, 2007
No longer in force
Jun 18, 2025
Jun 18, 2025
Granted
Jun 18, 2013
Jun 18, 2013
Term would have run to
Jun 30, 2027
Jun 30, 2027
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
52
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
4
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 Jun 30, 2027: its 20-year base term plus 52 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 May 9, 2007, when application 11/797,924, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 11, 2011) | May 9, 2027 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +52 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 30, 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 | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Jun 18, 2025 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 18, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,893,798 | In force Mar 2029 | Mar 2029 |
| US 7,864,006 | In force Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
| US 8,264,307 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
| US 8,466,760 | this patent Jun 2025 | Jun 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 8, 2011 Reel 26147, frame 43 | Foster, John S.; Gudeman, Christopher S. | Innovative Micro Technology | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 30, 2017 Reel 44553, frame 257 | Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. | Pacific Western Bank | Security Interest |
| Nov 30, 2017 Reel 44635, frame 492 | Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. | Agility Capital II, LLC | Security Interest |
| Oct 15, 2018 Reel 47237, frame 141 | Agility Capital II, LLC | Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jan 30, 2019 Reel 48195, frame 441 | Pacific Western Bank | Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Dec 30, 2022 Reel 62253, frame 77 | Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. | Atomica Corp. | Change of Name |
| Jan 9, 2023 Reel 62320, frame 509 | Innovative Micro Technology, Inc. | Atomica Corp. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the City of the Assignee Previously Recorded on Reel 062253 Frame 0077. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Change of Name. |
| Feb 23, 2023 Reel 62841, frame 341 | Atomica Corp. | ST. Cloud Capital Partners IV SBIC, L.P. | Security Interest |
| Mar 12, 2025 Reel 70485, frame 737 | ST. Cloud Capital Partners IV SBIC, L.P. | Atomica Corp. | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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Note
The 52 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median 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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