Term ends Dec 14, 2026 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 14, 2026
Grace period ended Oct 30, 2026 · no payment on record as of the Nov 10, 2026 fee file · lapse expected
Held by Qualcomm Incorporated
Filed Feb 24, 2017 as application 15/442,277 · Granted Oct 30, 2018
Base term, 20 years from filing
Today
2006
2026
Clock starts
Dec 14, 2006
Dec 14, 2006
Term ends
Dec 14, 2026
Dec 14, 2026
Granted
Oct 30, 2018
Oct 30, 2018
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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
36
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 1 of 2 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Low: the grace period for its second maintenance fee ended Oct 30, 2026 with no payment on record. from the record
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| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Dec 14, 2006, when application 11/610,595, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 24, 2017) | Dec 14, 2026 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | None on file | no change | 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 | No fee event states this; the fee state is read from the payments the fee record holds; the fee record shows no payment for this window, and USPTO's status still reads "Patented Case"; the grace period ended with no payment on record in the fee file | grace period ended Oct 30, 2026 | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Dec 14, 2026 | Low confidence |
This family
| US 7,561,048 | In force Apr 2027 | Apr 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2006/062133 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,872,583 | In force Jan 2027 | Jan 2027 |
| Application PCT/US2009/059472 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 7,969,311 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 8,305,215 | In force Dec 2026 | Dec 2026 |
| US 9,507,007 | In force Jan 2029 | Jan 2029 |
| US 8,648,722 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2026 | Feb 2026 |
8 of 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 2017 Reel 41375, frame 663 | Markhovsky, Felix; Prevatt, Truman; Markhovsky, Russ | Invisitrack, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 28, 2017 Reel 41829, frame 356 | Invisitrack, Inc. | Polte Corporation | Change of Name |
| Jan 17, 2020 Reel 51550, frame 394 | Buynak, Michael John | Polte Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 31, 2022 Reel 61362, frame 242 | Polte Corporation | Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 3, 2025 Reel 69817, frame 688 | Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. | Qualcomm Incorporated | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Oct 30
Grace period ended Oct 30, 2026 with no payment on record. The term ends early once USPTO posts the lapse
Dec 2026
Term ends Dec 14, 2026.
Citations
34
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2018 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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