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Hardware Accelerator for Compressed RNN on FPGA

US 10,698,657 In force
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Term ends Dec 26, 2038 · High confidence

Held by Xilinx, Inc.
Filed Dec 26, 2016 as application 15/390,563 · Granted Jun 30, 2020
Base term plus 856 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
20 years from filing
2016 2038
Clock starts
Aug 22, 2016
Term ends
Dec 26, 2038
Granted
Jun 30, 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
856
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 856 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Aug 22, 2016, when applications 15/242,622, 15/242,624 and 15/242,625, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Dec 26, 2016)Aug 22, 2036High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+856 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordDec 26, 2038High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capNone on recordno cap appliedHigh confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 3 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderDec 26, 2038High confidence

This family

US 10,621,486In force
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Application 15/242,624Abandoned
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Application 15/242,625Abandoned
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US 10,802,992In force
May 2039
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US 10,643,124In force
Feb 2039
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US 10,762,426In force
Aug 2038
Aug 2038
US 10,698,657this patent
Dec 2038
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US 10,832,123In force
Mar 2038
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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.
RecordedAssignorAssigneeConveyance
Dec 28, 2016
Reel 40777, frame 420
Kang, Junlong; Han, SongBeijing Deephi Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Apr 26, 2017
Reel 42143, frame 956
Shan, YiBeijing Deephi Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd.Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 8, 2018
Reel 45529, frame 239
Shan, YiBeijing Deephi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee's Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 042143 Frame: 0956. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.
Mar 8, 2018
Reel 45529, frame 400
Kang, Junlong; Han, SongBeijing Deephi Technology Co., Ltd.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee's Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 040777 Frame: 0420. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment.
Apr 18, 2018
Reel 46547, frame 788
Kang, Junlong; Han, SongBeijing Deephi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignee Name Previously Recorded at Reel: 045529 Frame: 0400. 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

Sources

Google Patents · The patent document at USPTO · Assignment records at USPTO

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