Lapsed May 3, 2026 on the fee record · High confidence
20-year base term ends Dec 20, 2039
First maintenance fee unpaid; grace period ended.
Held by Intel Corporation
Filed Dec 20, 2019 as application 16/724,105 · Granted May 3, 2022
Base term, 20 years from filing, plus 25 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
Lapsed May 3, 2026
2019
2040
Clock starts
Dec 20, 2019
Dec 20, 2019
No longer in force
May 3, 2026
May 3, 2026
Granted
May 3, 2022
May 3, 2022
Term would have run to
Jan 14, 2040
Jan 14, 2040
base term
patent term adjustment
after the term ends
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
25
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
0 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.
16
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Its term would have run to Jan 14, 2040: its 20-year base term plus 25 days of term adjustment for prosecution delay. 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 20, 2019, when this application, 16/724,105, was filed | Dec 20, 2039 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +25 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 14, 2040 | 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 | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | lapsed May 3, 2026 | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | May 3, 2026 | High confidence |
This family
| US 11,250,165 | In force Aug 2040 | Aug 2040 |
| Application 16/724,059 | Abandoned not computed | not computed |
| US 11,416,624 | Lapsed on the fee record Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| US 11,829,488 | In force Aug 2041 | Aug 2041 |
| US 11,308,225 | Lapsed on the fee record Apr 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| US 11,321,469 | this patent May 2026 | May 2026 |
| US 11,768,946 | In force Apr 2042 | Apr 2042 |
| US 11,354,423 | Lapsed on the fee record Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 |
8 of 16 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 9, 2020 Reel 52058, frame 485 | Kounavis, Michael E.; Ghosh, Santosh; Deutsch, Sergej; Lemay, Michael; Durham, David M.; Shwartsman, Stanislav | Intel Corporation | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Feb 8, 2022 Reel 58978, frame 981 | Kounavis, Michael E.; Ghosh, Santosh; Deutsch, Sergej; Lemay, Michael; Durham, David M.; Shwartsman, Stanislav | Intel Corporation | Corrective Assignment to Correct the Assignment Document to Include the Application Serial Number and Filing Date Previously Recorded at Reel: 052058 Frame: 0485. Assignor(S) Hereby Confirms the Assignment. |
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Note
The 25 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
26
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2022 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
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