Lapsed Aug 9, 2024 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Feb 25, 2029
Second maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by CF Traverse LLC
Filed Dec 21, 2012 as application 13/725,969 · Granted Aug 9, 2016
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 498 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed Aug 9, 2024
2009
2030
Clock starts
Feb 25, 2009
Feb 25, 2009
No longer in force
Aug 9, 2024
Aug 9, 2024
Granted
Aug 9, 2016
Aug 9, 2016
Term would have run to
Jul 8, 2030
Jul 8, 2030
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
498
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
40
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 Jul 8, 2030: its 20-year base term plus 498 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 Feb 25, 2009, when application 12/392,525, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Dec 21, 2012) | Feb 25, 2029 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +498 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jul 8, 2030 | 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed Aug 9, 2024 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Aug 9, 2024 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,420,258 | In force May 2031 | May 2031 |
| Application PCT/US2009/035195 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,481,214 | In force Jan 2030 | Jan 2030 |
| Application 61/578,545 | Provisional application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 8,658,310 | In force Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
| US 8,652,683 | In force Feb 2029 | Feb 2029 |
| US 9,412,998 | this patent Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| US 9,941,709 | In force Dec 2031 | Dec 2031 |
8 of 40 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 26, 2013 Reel 30296, frame 442 | Rojeski, Ronald A. | Catalyst Power Technologies | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jul 8, 2014 Reel 33263, frame 831 | Klankowski, Steven; Li, Jun | Kansas State University Research Foundation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 29, 2016 Reel 38124, frame 115 | Catalyst Power Technologies, Inc. | CPT IP Holdings, LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Oct 24, 2016 Reel 40101, frame 82 | CPT IP Holdings, LLC | Traverse Technologies Corp. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 11, 2017 Reel 41333, frame 1 | Motheye Technologies, LLC; Synchronicity IP LLC; Traverse Technologies Corp.; 3D Nanocolor Corp.; Bismarck IP Inc.; Magnus IP GmbH; Munitech IP S.À.R.L.; Vermilion Participations; Marathon Ventures S.À.R.L; Nyanza Properties; Marathon IP GmbH; Orthophoenix, LLC; Medtech Development Deutschland GmbH; Synchronicity IP GmbH; Tli Communications GmbH | DBD Credit Funding LLC, as Collateral Agent | Security Interest |
| Apr 13, 2018 Reel 45535, frame 786 | Traverse Technologies Corp. | CF Traverse LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 3, 2024 Reel 68473, frame 389 | DBD Credit Funding LLC | CF Traverse LLC | Release of Security Interest |
| Sep 3, 2024 Reel 68473, frame 405 | Kansas State University Research Foundation | CF Traverse LLC | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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Note
The 498 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
37
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2016 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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