Term ends May 19, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 21, 2036
Held by Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
Filed Nov 9, 2016 as application 15/347,663 · Granted Jul 9, 2019
Base term plus 240 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2037
Clock starts
Sep 21, 2016
Sep 21, 2016
Term ends
May 19, 2037
May 19, 2037
Granted
Jul 9, 2019
Jul 9, 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
240
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 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.
10
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 240 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is 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 Sep 21, 2016, when application 15/272,332, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 9, 2016) | Sep 21, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +240 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 19, 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 | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 19, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,210,135 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| US 10,311,018 | In force Feb 2037 | Feb 2037 |
| US 10,349,251 | this patent May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 10,878,060 | In force Apr 2037 | Apr 2037 |
| US 10,891,256 | In force no later than Sep 2036 | no later than Sep 2036 |
| US 10,771,947 | In force Sep 2036 | Sep 2036 |
| US 11,874,895 | In force no later than Nov 2037 | no later than Nov 2037 |
| US 11,874,896 | In force no later than Jul 2037 | no later than Jul 2037 |
8 of 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 2016 Reel 40273, frame 341 | Guo, Yuanbin; Kim, Hong Jik | Cavium, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Apr 16, 2019 Reel 48921, frame 389 | Cavium, Inc. | Cavium, LLC | Change of Name |
| Feb 17, 2020 Reel 51948, frame 807 | Cavium, LLC | Cavium International | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| May 15, 2020 Reel 53179, frame 320 | Cavium International | Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
May 2037
Term ends May 19, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 240 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2019 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
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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.