Term ends Apr 23, 2030 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 24, 2030
Held by NXP USA, Inc.
Filed Mar 19, 2018 as application 15/924,573 · Granted Oct 29, 2019
Base term plus 30 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2010
2030
Clock starts
Mar 24, 2010
Mar 24, 2010
Term ends
Apr 23, 2030
Apr 23, 2030
Granted
Oct 29, 2019
Oct 29, 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
30
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 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.
3
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 30 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 2 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 Mar 24, 2010, when application 12/730,651, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 19, 2018) | Mar 24, 2030 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +30 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Apr 23, 2030 | 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 2 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Apr 23, 2030 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,924,512 | In force Sep 2034 | Sep 2034 |
| US 10,462,790 | this patent Apr 2030 | Apr 2030 |
| US 11,039,440 | In force Mar 2030 | Mar 2030 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 2019 Reel 51536, frame 1 | Marvell International Ltd. | NXP USA, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Apr 2030
Term ends Apr 23, 2030. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 30 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
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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