Term ends May 30, 2028 · High confidence

Computed 20-year base term

Held by Infineon Technologies AG

Filed Nov 7, 2016 as application 15/344,997 · Granted Jul 7, 2020

Base term, 20 years from filing

Today

20 years from filing

Term ends May 30, 2028

2008 2028

Clock starts
May 30, 2008

Term ends
May 30, 2028

Granted
Jul 7, 2020

base term 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

None

Term adjustment

No prosecution delay on this record.

None

Terminal disclaimer

No disclaimer on this record.

1 of 1

Maintenance fees paid

One maintenance fee can end this term early, the one due 3.5 years from grant; the next one's grace period runs past the term end. This counts it if the record shows it paid.

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 is its 20-year base term, with no adjustment for prosecution delay. 1 of 1 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 May 30, 2008, when application 12/130,678, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Nov 7, 2016)	May 30, 2028	High confidence
Continuity chain	Every parent in the chain resolved	no change	High confidence
Patent term adjustment	None on file	no change	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 1 maintenance fees paid	In force	High confidence
Computed term end	The steps above, in order	May 30, 2028	High confidence

This family

US 8,773,124	Lapsed on the fee record Jul 2022	Jul 2022
US 10,996,290	In force Sep 2028	Sep 2028
US 10,704,933	In force Jan 2035	Jan 2035
US 10,338,159	In force Aug 2028	Aug 2028
US 10,852,367	In force Aug 2028	Aug 2028
US 10,338,158	In force May 2028	May 2028
US 10,677,617	In force Jun 2029	Jun 2029
US 10,704,926	this patent May 2028	May 2028

8 of 13 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 40269, frame 915	Aichriedler, Leo; Slama, Peter; Ausserlechner, Udo	Infineon Technologies AG	Assignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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What's changing

May 2028

Term ends May 30, 2028. No further fees fall due before then

Citations

later US patents cite this one

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