Lapsed Jul 1, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Third maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.

No current holder resolved from the recorded chain.

Filed Mar 2, 2011 as application 13/039,130 · Granted Jul 1, 2014

Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 276 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)

Today

Lapsed Jul 1, 2026

2007 2028

Clock starts
Aug 21, 2007

No longer in force
Jul 1, 2026

Granted
Jul 1, 2014

Term would have run to
May 23, 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

276

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.

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 May 23, 2028: its 20-year base term plus 276 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 Aug 21, 2007, when application 11/842,606, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 2, 2011)	Aug 21, 2027	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	+276 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record	May 23, 2028	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 Jul 1, 2026	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	Jul 1, 2026	High confidence

This family

US 7,909,482	In force Sep 2027	Sep 2027
US 8,764,240	this patent Jul 2026	Jul 2026

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 15, 2011 Reel 27232, frame 101	Innotec, Corp. D/B/A Innotec, Inc.; Ilh, L.l.c.	Jpmorgan Chase Bank, N.a.	Security Agreement
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

Sources

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

USPTO account required: This application in Patent Center · USPTO's maintenance fee lookup

Maintenance fee events come from USPTO's own fee records. Its fee lookup asks for the patent number and the application number.

What's changing

Note

The 276 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 2014 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

Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.

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