Term ends Dec 15, 2028 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 15, 2028
Held by Itron, Inc.
Filed Dec 18, 2011 as application 13/329,291 · Granted Feb 24, 2015
Base term plus 464 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2008
2028
Clock starts
Dec 15, 2008
Dec 15, 2008
Term ends
Dec 15, 2028
Dec 15, 2028
Granted
Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015
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
464
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,106,627, US 8,324,859, US 8,686,687.
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.
5
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 464 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Dec 15, 2008, when application 12/335,009, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 18, 2011) | Dec 15, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +464 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 24, 2030 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,106,627, US 8,324,859, US 8,686,687) | capped to Dec 15, 2028 | 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 | Dec 15, 2028 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,106,627 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| US 8,324,859 | In force Dec 2029 | Dec 2029 |
| Application PCT/US2011/023082 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,963,492 | this patent Dec 2028 | Dec 2028 |
| US 8,686,687 | In force Dec 2028 | Dec 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.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 2012 Reel 27959, frame 286 | Comverge, Inc. | Grace Bay Holdings II, LLC (as Successor-by-Assignment to Partners for Growth III, L.P.) | Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Apr 1, 2012 Reel 27968, frame 112 | Comverge, Inc. | Peak Holding Corp. | Intellectual Property Security Agreement |
| Nov 29, 2012 Reel 29382, frame 849 | Comverge, Inc. | Hercules Technology II, L.P., as Collateral Agent | Security Agreement |
| Dec 5, 2012 Reel 29407, frame 981 | Comverge, Inc. | Triangle Capital Corporation | Security Agreement |
| May 15, 2013 Reel 30422, frame 550 | Hercules Technology Ii, L.p. | Comverge, Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 2, 2013 Reel 30954, frame 839 | Grace Bay Holdings II, LLC, as Successor-by-Assignment to Partners for Growth III, L.P. | Comverge, Inc. | Release by Secured Party of Security Interest Previously Recorded at Reel 027959 Frame 0286 |
| Aug 15, 2013 Reel 31016, frame 115 | Peak Holding Corp. | Comverge, Inc. | Release of Security Interest by Secured Party as Previously Recorded at Reel 027968 Frame 0112 |
| Aug 21, 2017 Reel 43618, frame 811 | Itron DR/Ee Inc.; Comverge, Inc. | Itron Distributed Energy Management, Inc. | Merger and Change of Name |
| Jan 8, 2018 Reel 45017, frame 893 | Itron, Inc.; Itron Networked Solutions, Inc. | Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | Security Interest |
| Feb 2, 2018 Reel 45230, frame 691 | Itron Distributed Energy Management, Inc.; Itron, Inc.; Itron, Inc. | Itron, Inc. | Merger and Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Dec 2028
Term ends Dec 15, 2028. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 464 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,106,627, US 8,324,859, US 8,686,687.
Citations
17
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2015 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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