Term ends Feb 20, 2039 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Aug 22, 2036
Held by Xilinx, Inc.
Filed Aug 31, 2016 as application 15/252,220 · Granted May 5, 2020
Base term plus 912 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2039
Clock starts
Aug 22, 2016
Aug 22, 2016
Term ends
Feb 20, 2039
Feb 20, 2039
Granted
May 5, 2020
May 5, 2020
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
912
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.
11
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 912 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 Aug 22, 2016, when applications 15/242,622 and 15/242,624, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Aug 31, 2016) | Aug 22, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +912 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Feb 20, 2039 | 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 | Feb 20, 2039 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,621,486 | In force Nov 2038 | Nov 2038 |
| Application 15/242,624 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| Application 15/242,625 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 10,802,992 | In force May 2039 | May 2039 |
| US 10,643,124 | this patent Feb 2039 | Feb 2039 |
| US 10,762,426 | In force Aug 2038 | Aug 2038 |
| US 10,698,657 | In force Dec 2038 | Dec 2038 |
| US 10,832,123 | In force Mar 2038 | Mar 2038 |
8 of 11 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 31, 2016 Reel 39591, frame 43 | Yu, Jincheng; Yao, Song | Deephi Technology Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 9, 2017 Reel 40886, frame 506 | Deephi Technology Co., Ltd. | Beijing Deephi Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 8, 2018 Reel 45528, frame 103 | Yao, Song; Yu, Jincheng | Beijing Deephi Technology Co., Ltd. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee's Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 039591 Frame: 0043. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Mar 8, 2018 Reel 45528, frame 361 | Beijing Deephi Technology Co., Ltd. | Beijing Deephi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignor and Assignee's Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 040886 Frame: 0506. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
| Sep 16, 2019 Reel 50377, frame 436 | Beijing Deephi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. | Xilinx, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
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What's changing
Feb 2039
Term ends Feb 20, 2039. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 912 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
17
later US patents cite this one
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