Term ends Jan 24, 2034 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 27, 2033
Held by Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
Filed Mar 16, 2018 as application 15/923,851 · Granted Sep 22, 2020
Base term plus 28 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2013
2034
Clock starts
Dec 27, 2013
Dec 27, 2013
Term ends
Jan 24, 2034
Jan 24, 2034
Granted
Sep 22, 2020
Sep 22, 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
28
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
No effect
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,620,213, to Jan 24, 2034. The term already ends on or before that date, so the cap shortened nothing.
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.
7
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 28 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer is resolved from the filed document, and it ends no earlier than this term, so it shortens nothing. 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 Dec 27, 2013, when application 14/142,511, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 16, 2018) | Dec 27, 2033 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +28 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 24, 2034 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 9,620,213) | resolves to Jan 24, 2034, no earlier than this term, so no change | 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 | Jan 24, 2034 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,620,213 | In force May 2034 | May 2034 |
| US 9,952,800 | In force Dec 2033 | Dec 2033 |
| US 9,952,799 | In force Dec 2033 | Dec 2033 |
| US 10,782,907 | this patent Jan 2034 | Jan 2034 |
| US 11,435,925 | In force Dec 2033 | Dec 2033 |
| US 12,323,145 | In force Dec 2033 | Dec 2033 |
| Application 19/214,460 | Pending not computed | not computed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 2018 Reel 45258, frame 253 | Tran, Anh T.; Schmidt, Gerald; Daniel, Tsahi; Shrivastava, Saurabh | Xpliant, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 16, 2018 Reel 45258, frame 289 | Xpliant, Inc. | Cavium Networks LLC | Merger |
| Mar 16, 2018 Reel 45258, frame 314 | Cavium Networks LLC | Cavium, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 27, 2018 Reel 47577, frame 653 | 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 |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2034
Term ends Jan 24, 2034. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 28 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Terminal disclaimer
A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 9,620,213, ends no earlier than this term, so it caps nothing.
Citations
0
later US patents cite this one
That is below the median of utility patents granted in 2020 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.