Term ends May 6, 2035 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 30, 2035
Held by Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
Filed Mar 29, 2019 as application 16/370,746 · Granted Aug 17, 2021
Base term plus 126 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2015
2035
Clock starts
Mar 30, 2015
Mar 30, 2015
Term ends
May 6, 2035
May 6, 2035
Granted
Aug 17, 2021
Aug 17, 2021
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
126
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 10,289,575, US 9,606,942.
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.
12
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 126 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 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 Mar 30, 2015, when application 14/673,828, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Mar 29, 2019) | Mar 30, 2035 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +126 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Aug 3, 2035 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,289,575, US 9,606,942) | capped to May 6, 2035 | 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 | May 6, 2035 | High confidence |
This family
| US 9,606,942 | In force Jul 2035 | Jul 2035 |
| US 10,289,575 | In force May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 10,904,940 | In force Mar 2039 | Mar 2039 |
| US 11,093,415 | this patent May 2035 | May 2035 |
| US 11,310,859 | In force Mar 2039 | Mar 2039 |
| US 11,586,562 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
| US 11,723,103 | In force Mar 2039 | Mar 2039 |
| US 11,874,781 | In force Mar 2035 | Mar 2035 |
8 of 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2019 Reel 48746, frame 698 | Musoll, Enrique; Daniel, Tsahi | Xpliant, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 29, 2019 Reel 48746, frame 713 | Xpliant, Inc. | Cavium Networks LLC | Merger |
| Mar 29, 2019 Reel 48746, frame 750 | Cavium Networks LLC | Cavium, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Mar 29, 2019 Reel 48750, frame 737 | 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 |
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What's changing
May 2035
Term ends May 6, 2035. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 126 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,289,575, US 9,606,942.
Citations
4
later US patents cite this one
That is above the median of utility patents granted in 2021 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.