Term ended Dec 30, 2025 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Dec 30, 2025
Filed Nov 8, 2006 as application 11/594,564 · Granted Jan 19, 2016
Base term plus 7 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
Term ended Dec 30, 2025
2005
2026
Clock starts
Dec 30, 2005
Dec 30, 2005
Term ended
Dec 30, 2025
Dec 30, 2025
Granted
Jan 19, 2016
Jan 19, 2016
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
7
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 7,515,471, US 8,433,874.
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.
33
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 7 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 30, 2005, when application 11/324,023, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 8, 2006) | Dec 30, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +7 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 6, 2026 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 7,515,471, US 8,433,874) | capped to Dec 30, 2025 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | term ended | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 30, 2025 | High confidence |
This family
| US 7,652,922 | In force Jul 2027 | Jul 2027 |
| US 7,810,089 | In force May 2029 | May 2029 |
| Application 11/496,278 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,515,471 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| US 9,240,227 | this patent Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
| Application 11/639,375 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 7,747,833 | In force Mar 2027 | Mar 2027 |
| US 7,719,892 | Term ended Dec 2025 | Dec 2025 |
8 of 33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 2007 Reel 18822, frame 193 | Pyeon, Hong Beom; Kim, Jin-ki; Oh, Hakjune | MOSAID Technologies Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 10, 2008 Reel 21221, frame 692 | Kim, Jin-Ki, MR. | MOSAID Technologies Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 24, 2008 Reel 21285, frame 913 | Oh, Hakjune, MR. | MOSAID Technologies Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 31, 2008 Reel 21324, frame 75 | Pyeon, Hong-Boem, MR. | MOSAID Technologies Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 15, 2009 Reel 22542, frame 876 | MOSAID Technologies Incorporated | MOSAID Technologies Incorporated | Change of Address of Assignee |
| Jan 10, 2012 Reel 27512, frame 196 | 658276 N.B. Ltd.; 658868 N.B. Inc.; MOSAID Technologies Incorporated | Royal Bank of Canada | U.S. Intellectual Property Security Agreement (for Non-U.S. Grantors) - Short Form |
| Mar 13, 2014 Reel 32439, frame 638 | MOSAID Technologies Incorporated | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | Change of Name |
| Aug 7, 2014 Reel 33484, frame 344 | Royal Bank of Canada | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.; Conversant IP N.B. 868 Inc.; Conversant IP N.B. 276 Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 7, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Royal Bank of Canada | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 7, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Royal Bank of Canada | Conversant IP N.B. 868 Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Aug 7, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Royal Bank of Canada | Conversant IP N.B. 276 Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 3, 2014 Reel 33678, frame 96 | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | Change of Address |
| Sep 9, 2014 Reel 33706, frame 367 | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | Cppib Credit Investments Inc., as Lender; Royal Bank of Canada, as Lender | U.S. Patent Security Agreement (for Non-U.S. Grantors) |
| Sep 9, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | Cppib Credit Investments Inc., as Lender | U.S. Patent Security Agreement (for Non-U.S. Grantors) |
| Sep 9, 2014 reel/frame not recorded | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | Royal Bank of Canada, as Lender | U.S. Patent Security Agreement (for Non-U.S. Grantors) |
| Aug 22, 2018 Reel 46900, frame 136 | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | Cppib Credit Investments, Inc. | Amended and Restated U.S. Patent Security Agreement (for Non-U.S. Grantors) |
| Oct 12, 2018 Reel 47645, frame 424 | Royal Bank of Canada, as Lender | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | Release of U.S. Patent Agreement (for Non-U.S. Grantors) |
| Nov 3, 2020 Reel 54310, frame 421 | Cppib Credit Investments Inc. | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | Release of Security Interest |
| Jun 16, 2021 Reel 56602, frame 253 | Conversant Intellectual Property Inc. | MOSAID Technologies Incorporated | Change of Name |
| Aug 30, 2023 Reel 64783, frame 267 | Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc. | MOSAID Technologies Incorporated | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Conveying Party's Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 056602 Frame: 0253. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Change of Name. |
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Note
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Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 7,515,471, US 8,433,874.
Citations
92
later US patents cite this one
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