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Method and Arrangement for Retransmission Using HARQ

US 10,903,940 In force
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Term ends Jun 10, 2028 · High confidence

Filed May 26, 2017 as application 15/606,821 · Granted Jan 26, 2021
Base term plus 104 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
20 years from filing
2008 2028
Clock starts
Jun 10, 2008
Term ends
Jun 10, 2028
Granted
Jan 26, 2021
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
104
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 8,370,696, US 8,966,333, US 9,698,942.
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.
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 104 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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.
StepInputDate after this stepConfidence
Base term, 20 years from filingClock starts Jun 10, 2008, when application PCT/SE2008/050688, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed May 26, 2017)Jun 10, 2028High confidence
Continuity chainEvery parent in the chain resolvedno changeHigh confidence
Patent term adjustment+104 days, USPTO patent term adjustment recordSep 22, 2028High confidence
Terminal disclaimer capDisclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 8,370,696, US 8,966,333, US 9,698,942)capped to Jun 10, 2028High confidence
Patent term extensionNone on fileno changeHigh confidence
Fee events1 of 1 maintenance fees paidIn forceHigh confidence
Computed term endThe steps above, in orderJun 10, 2028High confidence

This family

US 8,370,696In force
Aug 2029
Aug 2029
US 8,966,333In force
Jun 2028
Jun 2028
US 9,698,942In force
Jun 2028
Jun 2028
US 10,903,940this patent
Jun 2028
Jun 2028
US 11,533,130In force
Jun 2028
Jun 2028
US 12,040,898In force
Jun 2028
Jun 2028
6 of 7 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
Mar 13, 2018
Reel 45194, frame 876
Sagfors, Mats Fredrik; Torsner, Per Johan; Wiemann, Henning; Meyer, MichaelTelefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Assignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 13, 2018
Reel 45583, frame 250
Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Cluster LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest
Mar 13, 2018
Reel 45583, frame 385
Cluster LLCOptis Wireless Technology, LLCAssignment of Assignor's Interest

Sources

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