Term ends Sep 10, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 24, 2034
Held by Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
Filed Feb 5, 2016 as application 15/017,385 · Granted Feb 26, 2019
Base term, 20 years from filing · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2014
2034
Clock starts
Oct 24, 2014
Oct 24, 2014
Term ends
Sep 10, 2034
Sep 10, 2034
Granted
Feb 26, 2019
Feb 26, 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
None
Term adjustment
No prosecution delay on this record.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,294,323, US 9,712,358.
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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for 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.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Oct 24, 2014, when application 14/523,678, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Feb 5, 2016) | Oct 24, 2034 | 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 | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,294,323, US 9,712,358) | capped to Sep 10, 2034 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 2 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Sep 10, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,712,358 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| Application PCT/US2015/010480 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 10,194,006 | In force Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| US 10,361,721 | In force Dec 2035 | Dec 2035 |
| US 9,667,460 | In force Oct 2034 | Oct 2034 |
| US 10,218,822 | this patent Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| US 10,193,567 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 10,153,930 | In force Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2017 Reel 43325, frame 479 | Zhang, Hongyuan; Sun, Yakun; Xu, Mingguang | Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 17, 2017 Reel 43325, frame 490 | Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. | Marvell International Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 17, 2017 Reel 43325, frame 726 | Marvell International Ltd. | Marvell World Trade Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 17, 2017 Reel 43594, frame 551 | 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 International | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jun 16, 2020 Reel 53475, frame 1 | Cavium International | Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Sep 2034
Term ends Sep 10, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,294,323, US 9,712,358.
Citations
66
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.