Term ends Feb 11, 2027 · High confidence
20-year base term ended Apr 22, 2025
Filed Mar 24, 2009 as application 12/410,178 · Granted Aug 7, 2018
Base term plus 660 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2005
2027
Clock starts
Apr 22, 2005
Apr 22, 2005
Term ends
Feb 11, 2027
Feb 11, 2027
Granted
Aug 7, 2018
Aug 7, 2018
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
660
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
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.
17
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 660 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 2 of 2 maintenance fees are paid so far. 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 22, 2005, when application 11/112,807, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 24, 2009) | Apr 22, 2025 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +660 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 11, 2027 | 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 | 2 of 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Feb 11, 2027 | High confidence |
This family
| Application 10/816,636 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/019,183 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 11/044,394 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 8,128,871 | In force Aug 2027 | Aug 2027 |
| US 7,521,259 | Term ended Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| US 7,521,260 | Term ended May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 7,532,128 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2017 | May 2017 |
| Application 12/409,877 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 17 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 17, 2014 Reel 31998, frame 724 | Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. | Alverix, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 17, 2014 Reel 31998, frame 749 | Agilent Technologies, Inc. | Avago Technologies General IP Pte. Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 17, 2014 Reel 31998, frame 914 | Petruno, Patrick T.; Brosnan, Michael J.; Roitman, Daniel B.; Petrilla, John F.; Zhou, Rong | Agilent Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Feb 2027
Term ends Feb 11, 2027. No further fees fall due before then
Note
The 660 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
17
later US patents cite this one
That is top 25% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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