Term ended Apr 18, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 18, 2025
USPTO later recorded it as expired for non-payment on Aug 11, 2025.
Held by Funzionano As
Filed Jan 20, 2012 as application 13/355,267 · Granted Jul 9, 2013
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
Term ended Apr 18, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Apr 18, 2005
Apr 18, 2005
Term ended
Apr 18, 2025
Apr 18, 2025
Granted
Jul 9, 2013
Jul 9, 2013
base term
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,183,315, to Apr 18, 2025. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
2 of 2
Maintenance fees paid
Two maintenance fees can end this term early, the ones due 3.5 and 7.5 years from grant; the third one's grace period runs past the term end. 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. 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, 2005, when application PCT/NO2005/000127, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 20, 2012) | Apr 18, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,183,315) | resolves to Apr 18, 2025, no earlier than this term, so no change | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| USPTO status record | Recorded as expired for non-payment on Aug 11, 2025, after the term ended | no change | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 18, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,183,315 | Term ended Oct 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| US 8,481,628 | this patent Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
2 of 3 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2013 Reel 30042, frame 293 | Mannle, Ferdinand; Beylich, Jest; Hauge, Roger; Simon, Christian; Kleppe, Emil Arne; Larsen, Aage Gellein; Roseth, Kaare Roger | Nor-X-Industry As | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 20, 2019 Reel 50448, frame 665 | Nor-X-Industry As | Sinvent As | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 20, 2019 Reel 50448, frame 765 | Sintef Tto As | Funzionano As | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 20, 2019 Reel 50457, frame 276 | Sinvent As | Sintef Tto As | Change of Name |
| Oct 23, 2019 Reel 50801, frame 157 | Sintef Tto As | Funzionano As | Corrective Assignment to Correct the the Address for the Assignee Previously Recorded at Reel: 050448 Frame: 0765. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,183,315, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
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