Also listed on Prysm, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Collateral for a security interest recorded Mar 17, 2025 (Prysm, Inc.).
Term ends Jun 25, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 27, 2025
Held by MSSL Consolidated Inc.
Filed Apr 29, 2008 as application 10/578,038 · Granted Aug 12, 2014
Base term plus 1155 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2028
Clock starts
Apr 27, 2005
Apr 27, 2005
Term ends
Jun 25, 2028
Jun 25, 2028
Granted
Aug 12, 2014
Aug 12, 2014
base term
patent term adjustment
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
1,155
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
16
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 runs 1155 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Apr 27, 2005, when application 11/116,998, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 29, 2008) | Apr 27, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +1155 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 25, 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 | 3 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 25, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,474,286 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2021 | Jan 2021 |
| US 7,791,561 | In force May 2027 | May 2027 |
| US 7,733,310 | In force Nov 2027 | Nov 2027 |
| Application 11/436,230 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,089,425 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2024 | Jan 2024 |
| US 8,000,005 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2019 | Aug 2019 |
| US 7,994,702 | In force Oct 2027 | Oct 2027 |
| US 8,803,772 | this patent Jun 2028 | Jun 2028 |
8 of 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2008 Reel 20874, frame 782 | Tan, Patrick; Malyak, Phillip H.; Hajjar, Roger A.; Kent, David L.; Kindler, David | Spudnik, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 27, 2010 Reel 23859, frame 522 | Spudnik, Inc. | Prysm, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Aug 3, 2017 Reel 43432, frame 787 | Prysm, Inc. | Kuwait Investment Authority, As Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Nov 9, 2020 Reel 54365, frame 241 | Prysm, Inc. | Prysm Systems, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 18, 2020 Reel 54411, frame 409 | Prysm, Inc.; Sococo, Inc. | Sococo, LLC | Merger and Change of Name |
| Feb 5, 2021 Reel 57679, frame 458 | Prysm, Inc. | Prysm Systems, Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Application No. 13505582 Previously Recorded at Reel: 054365 Frame: 241. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Mar 7, 2025 Reel 70442, frame 135 | Prysm Systems, Inc. | MSSL Consolidated Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 17, 2025 Reel 72856, frame 105 | Kuwait Investment Authority | Prysm, Inc. | Order Confirming the Prepackaged Plan of Reorganization of Prysm, Inc. Including Releasing Security Interests in Patents |
| Aug 11, 2025 Reel 72459, frame 15 | Prysm Systems, Inc. | MSSL Consolidated Inc. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Recordation and Remove Eighteen Property Numbers from the Patent Assignment Previously Recorded on Reel 70442 Frame 135. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment of Assignors Interest (Assignee Has the Power to Sign on Behalf of Assignor Pursuant to the Attached Poa.). |
Sources
Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO
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What's changing
Jun 2028
Term ends Jun 25, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 1155 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
88
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2014 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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