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US 10,194,006 In force
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Term ends Sep 10, 2034 · High confidence

Filed Jan 7, 2015 as application 14/591,759 · Granted Jan 29, 2019
Base term plus 9 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2014 2034
Clock starts
Oct 24, 2014
Term ends
Sep 10, 2034
Granted
Jan 29, 2019
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
9
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 9,294,323.
2 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.
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 9 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 2 of 3 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Oct 24, 2014, when application 14/523,678, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Jan 7, 2015)Oct 24, 2034High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+9 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordNov 2, 2034High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,294,323)capped to Sep 10, 2034High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events2 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderSep 10, 2034High confidence

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Oct 2034
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May 2035
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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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Jun 28, 2016
Reel 39033, frame 997
Zhang, Hongyuan; Xu, Mingguang; Sun, YakunMarvell Semiconductor, Inc.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 28, 2016
Reel 39034, frame 28
Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.Marvell International Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 28, 2016
Reel 39034, frame 48
Marvell International Ltd.Marvell World Trade Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 28, 2016
Reel 39034, frame 81
Marvell World Trade Ltd.Marvell International Ltd.License
Jan 29, 2020
Reel 51778, frame 537
Marvell World Trade Ltd.Marvell International Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Feb 20, 2020
Reel 52918, frame 1
Marvell International Ltd.Cavium InternationalAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Jun 16, 2020
Reel 53475, frame 1
Cavium InternationalMarvell Asia Pte, Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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