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60 patents currently held · Updated Nov 14, 2026

Held is read from USPTO's recorded assignments; a transfer never recorded there does not appear.

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Aug 2038

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Fee deadlines

Maintenance fees fall due 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after grant. A missed fee ends a patent at the end of the six month grace period that follows, not on the due date.

2 fees due Feb 8, 2027
2 fees due Jul 16 to 30, 2027 · next Jul 16
1 fee due Oct 23, 2027
The maintenance fee for Background processing during remote memory access (US 11,966,619) comes due Oct 23, 2027. Unpaid by Apr 24, 2028, it lapses early.

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Recent changes

10 of the patents on this record were granted since Aug 16, 2026

Patents held now

Soonest term end first. Each date below is computed on that patent's own page, which shows the rule, the adjustments and the fee history it was derived from.

Patent	Title	Status	Expires	Confidence
US 11,176,041	Reconfigurable Cache Architecture and Methods for Cache Coherency In force Term ends Aug 3, 2038 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Aug 3, 2038	High confidence
US 11,720,496	Reconfigurable Cache Architecture and Methods for Cache Coherency In force Term ends Aug 3, 2038 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Aug 3, 2038	High confidence
US 12,360,902	Reconfigurable Cache Architecture and Methods for Cache Coherency In force Term ends Aug 3, 2038 · High confidence	In force	Term ends Aug 3, 2038	High confidence
US 10,817,309	Runtime optimization of configurable hardware In force Term ends Jan 31, 2039 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jan 31, 2039	From the USPTO record
US 10,817,344	Directed and interconnected grid dataflow architecture In force Term ends Feb 1, 2039 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Feb 1, 2039	From the USPTO record
US 11,644,990	Interconnected Memory Grid with Bypassable Units In force Ends no later than Apr 23, 2040 · Low confidence	In force	Ends no later than Apr 23, 2040	Low confidence
US 12,056,376	Interconnected memory grid with bypassable units In force Term ends Apr 23, 2040 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Apr 23, 2040	From the USPTO record
US 11,269,526	Interconnected memory grid with bypassable units In force Term ends Sep 1, 2040 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Sep 1, 2040	From the USPTO record
US 11,144,238	Background processing during remote memory access In force Term ends Jan 5, 2041 · From the USPTO record	In force	Term ends Jan 5, 2041	From the USPTO record
US 11,966,619	Background processing during remote memory access In force Ends no later than Jan 5, 2041 · From the USPTO record	In force	Ends no later than Jan 5, 2041	From the USPTO record

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Sources and methods

Compiled from the USPTO record, grants, published applications and recorded assignments, not yet reviewed by hand. 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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Published applications

US patent applications published under this name that have not become patents. An application is published about eighteen months after its earliest filing; one that has not been published is in no public record.

7 pending · 3 no status recorded

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