Also listed on SanDisk, Inc., an earlier holder on the record. The recorded assignments below show how it moved.
Term ends Mar 17, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 31, 2028
Held by SanDisk Israel Ltd.
Filed Mar 31, 2008 as application 12/059,107 · Granted May 14, 2019
Base term plus 3273 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2008
2037
Clock starts
Mar 31, 2008
Mar 31, 2008
Term ends
Mar 17, 2037
Mar 17, 2037
Granted
May 14, 2019
May 14, 2019
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
3,273
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 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.
12
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 3273 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Mar 31, 2008, when this application, 12/059,107, was filed | Mar 31, 2028 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +3273 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 17, 2037 | 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 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Mar 17, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 8,452,927 | Lapsed on the fee record May 2025 | May 2025 |
| US 8,583,878 | Lapsed on the fee record Nov 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| US 8,370,850 | Lapsed on the fee record Feb 2025 | Feb 2025 |
| US 8,359,654 | Lapsed on the fee record Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 |
| US 10,289,349 | this patent Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| US 8,959,285 | In force Jun 2029 | Jun 2029 |
| US 9,098,506 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2023 | Aug 2023 |
| Application 12/123,304 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2008 Reel 20729, frame 165 | Nochimowski, Alain; Rave, Micha; Pomerantz, Itzhak; Mardiks, Eitan | SanDisk Il, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Aug 21, 2020 Reel 53574, frame 513 | SanDisk Il Ltd. | Western Digital Israel Ltd. | Change of Name |
| Jun 10, 2025 Reel 71587, frame 836 | Western Digital Israel Ltd. | SanDisk Israel Ltd. | Change of Name |
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What's changing
Mar 2037
Term ends Mar 17, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 3273 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
29
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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